Engineer/Sr Engineer, IT Cybersecurity Governance, Risk & Compliance

American Airlines is seeking a Cybersecurity GRC Engineer or Sr. Engineer to strengthen cybersecurity risk management and translate technical cyber risk into prioritized business decisions. This onsite role in Fort Worth focuses on governance, risk, and compliance practices, including interpreting requirements, maturing processes, and delivering executive-ready metrics.

In this position, you will bridge cybersecurity expectations with business governance by interpreting frameworks and control requirements, performing risk and compliance analysis, and coordinating assessments and evidence reviews. You will also help leadership maintain visibility into portfolio health, commitments, and measurable improvements.

Responsibilities

• Interpret cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory requirements, enterprise policies, risk methodologies, and control expectations to convert complex requirements into practical governance, risk, compliance, and portfolio management practices.
• Develop, refine, and operationalize policies, standards, procedures, control mappings, assessment methods, evidence expectations, and governance routines to improve consistency, quality, and defensibility.
• Evaluate risks, control gaps, compliance obligations, remediation plans, exceptions, issues, and supporting evidence to determine impact, root cause, prioritization, and appropriate risk response.
• Provide recommendations that influence operating practices and define how GRC, portfolio, work management, and financial governance activities should be structured, measured, and executed to improve cyber risk outcomes.
• Coordinate and execute control assessments, audit responses, evidence reviews, regulatory requests, testing activities, and issue validation, using technical judgment to confirm control design and operating effectiveness.
• Develop and manage work intake, prioritization methods, roadmaps, delivery plans, dependency tracking, decision logs, status reporting, portfolio health views, and execution routines that support cybersecurity leaders’ management of commitments and outcomes.
• Evaluate budgets, forecasts, run-rate trends, resource plans, vendor and contractor spend, purchase activity, and delivery commitments to identify gaps, tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities for better portfolio decisions.
• Define, validate, analyze, and communicate cybersecurity, compliance, portfolio, financial, and operational metrics that support leadership visibility and risk-informed decision-making.
• Advise cybersecurity, technology, business, finance, sourcing, legal, privacy, and audit stakeholders on GRC requirements, control expectations, portfolio processes, work management practices, and financial governance activities.
• Identify and implement improvements to workflows, tools, templates, data quality, reporting, documentation, and operating practices to increase efficiency and strengthen GRC and portfolio management outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Risk Management, Compliance, Audit, Finance, Data Analytics, Project/Portfolio Management, or a related technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience/training.
• Experience applying cybersecurity governance, risk, compliance, control, technology risk, audit, cyber portfolio management, work management, or financial management practices to interpret requirements, analyze information, coordinate execution, and support risk-informed stakeholder decisions.
• Experience working with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, control, portfolio, financial, resource, vendor, or delivery data to identify issues, assess impacts, track decisions, develop reporting, and contribute to process, control, or portfolio outcome improvements.

Technologies

• NIST Cybersecurity Framework
• NIST Risk Management Framework
• NIST SP 800-30
• ISO 27001
• ISO 27005
• PCI DSS
• SOX
• SOC 2
• CMMC
• CRISC
• CISSP
• CISM
• CISA

Benefits

• Travel perks (365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across the global network)
• Health benefits including health, dental, prescription and vision benefits; virtual doctor visits; flexible spending accounts
• Wellness programs
• 401(k) program (available upon hire; employer contributions depending on the workgroup after one year)
• Additional benefits including Member Assistance Program, pet insurance, and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Preferred Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience

• Advanced education, coursework, or specialized training in cybersecurity, information security, risk management, compliance, audit, information systems, data analytics, finance, project/portfolio management, or a related technical or business discipline preferred.
• Experience in a specialized cybersecurity governance, risk, compliance, cyber portfolio management, work management, audit, or technology risk role with ownership for interpreting requirements, designing or improving processes, and providing recommendations to stakeholders preferred.
• Experience applying cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and control frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOX, SOC 2, CMMC, or similar standards to support control mapping, assessments, evidence expectations, remediation activities, and governance practices preferred.
• Experience evaluating control design, operating effectiveness, risk impact, compliance gaps, exceptions, issues, remediation plans, and supporting evidence using structured analysis and technical judgment preferred.
• Experience developing or maturing GRC operating practices, control libraries, assessment methods, workflow routines, intake and prioritization models, portfolio roadmaps, dashboards, decision materials, or governance forums preferred.
• Experience analyzing cybersecurity portfolio, financial, vendor, contractor, resource, delivery, or work management data to identify trends, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations preferred.

Skills, Licenses, and Certifications

• Deep working knowledge of cybersecurity risk management, including risk identification, analysis, prioritization, treatment, monitoring, and communication.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity controls and the relationship between threats, vulnerabilities, controls, business impact, and risk.
• Experience developing or improving cybersecurity risk methodologies, assessment approaches, risk and control libraries, issue and exception practices, or risk treatment processes.
• Ability to analyze complex technical and business information, develop defensible risk conclusions, and translate cyber risk into clear priorities, recommendations, and actions.
• Experience developing risk metrics, key risk indicators, measurement approaches, and reporting that provide meaningful insight into cybersecurity risk and support risk-informed decisions.
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity and risk frameworks such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST Risk Management Framework, NIST SP 800-30, ISO 27001/27005, or comparable industry frameworks and methodologies.
• Experience using cybersecurity, risk, control, and related data to identify relationships, trends, concentrations, and insights that improve risk prioritization and decision-making.
• Working knowledge of data modeling, data quality, integration, analytics, or visualization concepts used to support cybersecurity risk intelligence and reporting.
• Experience using or improving GRC platforms and related workflows, integrations, automation, and reporting capabilities to strengthen risk management processes and data quality.
• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to evaluate and apply AI, automation, and emerging technologies to advance cybersecurity risk management, including identifying practical opportunities to improve risk analysis, intelligence, workflows, and team effectiveness.
• Ability to independently translate objectives into structured approaches, manage complex work, exercise technical judgment, and drive high-quality outcomes with limited day-to-day oversight.
• Strong communication and advisory skills, including the ability to explain cyber risk, technical considerations, control implications, and recommendations to technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to evaluate emerging cybersecurity, risk, data, and technology capabilities and translate relevant developments into practical improvements.
• Relevant cybersecurity or risk management certifications preferred, such as CRISC, CISSP, CISM, CISA, or comparable certifications.