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As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

The Manager, Data Management & Governance leads the strategy and delivery of high-quality, decision-ready data that supports financial crime risk analytics, reporting, and decisioning across GFCC and GRC.

This role oversees the full data lifecycle—from discovery and requirements to standardization, validation, and ongoing management—while ensuring strong governance through data quality, lineage, and metadata practices. The goal is to deliver trusted, reliable, and scalable data that meets risk and regulatory needs.

The role also partners closely with business, analytics, technology, and enterprise teams to translate complex requirements into usable data solutions, drive enterprise priorities, and support next-generation financial crime initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and execute data management and governance strategy for financial crime risk, aligned with enterprise and regulatory requirements.

• Develop and manage a data product roadmap to support analytics, reporting, and risk decisioning.

• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of critical data assets, ensuring data is accurate, consistent, and fit-for-purpose.

• Perform Data Discovery, Develop Data Requirements, Drive Data Standardization, and Validations

• Establish and enforce data governance frameworks, including data quality, lineage, and metadata management.

• Drive data quality monitoring, issue remediation, and continuous improvement to reduce data risk.

• Collaborate with business, risk, compliance, and technology teams to deliver reliable and scalable data solutions.

• Lead and develop data management teams, promoting best practices and a strong culture of data ownership and accountability.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in data management, analytics, or related roles, preferably in financial services

• Experience delivering data strategies and data products for analytics, modeling, or reporting

• Strong knowledge of data modeling, requirements gathering, and data governance (quality, lineage, metadata)

• Advanced analytical skills, including SQL, Python, and Big Query

• Ability to lead data initiatives and work across teams to drive alignment

• Familiarity with modern data platforms, pipelines, and data tools

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including working with senior leaders

• Experience building and leading teams

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Business Analytics, or a related field

Salary Range: $103,750.00 to $174,750.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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