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Compliance Engineer jobs with green card sponsorship are available through the EB-2 and EB-3 employment-based categories, where employers file PERM labor certification with the Department of Labor before sponsoring permanent residence. Regulatory expertise and degree credentials determine which category fits your profile, and priority-date backlogs vary by country of birth.
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INTRODUCTION
Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS JOB
- As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline.
- As a Cybersecurity GRC Engineer/Sr. Engineer focused on Risk Management, you will help shape and advance cybersecurity risk management capabilities that translate technical risk into prioritized business decisions and action. You will apply expertise in cyber risk analysis, risk and control practices, risk intelligence, metrics, data, and GRC technology to strengthen how cybersecurity risks are identified, analyzed, treated, monitored, and communicated. You will have the opportunity to engineer scalable risk management practices and data-driven capabilities that help American anticipate evolving threats, technologies, regulatory expectations, and business needs.
As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.
- Apply Specialized GRC Expertise: Interpret cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory requirements, enterprise policies, risk methodologies, and control expectations to translate complex requirements into practical governance, risk, compliance, and portfolio management practices.
- Design and Mature GRC Processes and Control Practices: Develop, refine, and operationalize policies, standards, procedures, control mappings, assessment methods, evidence expectations, and governance routines that improve consistency, quality, and defensibility across cybersecurity activities.
- Perform Advanced Risk, Control, and Compliance Analysis: Evaluate risks, control gaps, compliance obligations, remediation plans, exceptions, issues, and supporting evidence to determine impact, root cause, prioritization, and appropriate risk response.
- Exercise Independent Technical Judgment: Develop recommendations, influence operating practices, and determine how GRC, portfolio, work management, and financial governance activities should be structured, measured, and executed to improve cyber risk outcomes.
- Lead Technical Execution for Assessments, Audits, and Regulatory Requests: Coordinate and execute control assessments, audit responses, evidence reviews, regulatory requests, testing activities, and issue validation by applying technical judgment to determine whether control design and operating effectiveness are supported.
- Build and Maintain Cyber Portfolio Operating Practices: Develop and manage work intake, prioritization methods, roadmaps, delivery plans, dependency tracking, decision logs, status reporting, portfolio health views, and execution routines that enable cybersecurity leaders to manage commitments and outcomes.
- Analyze Financial, Resource, and Delivery Information: Evaluate budgets, forecasts, run-rate trends, resource plans, vendor and contractor spend, purchase activity, and delivery commitments to identify gaps, tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities to improve portfolio decision-making.
- Develop Metrics, Insights, and Executive-Ready Reporting: Define, validate, analyze, and communicate cybersecurity, compliance, portfolio, financial, and operational metrics that support leadership visibility, risk-informed decisions, and measurable improvement.
- Serve as a Subject Matter Resource: Provide guidance to cybersecurity, technology, business, finance, sourcing, legal, privacy, and audit stakeholders on GRC requirements, control expectations, portfolio processes, work management practices, and financial governance activities.
- Drive Continuous Improvement and Automation Opportunities: Identify and implement improvements to workflows, tools, templates, data quality, reporting, documentation, and operating practices to increase efficiency, reduce manual effort, and improve the quality of GRC and portfolio management outcomes.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION & PRIOR JOB EXPERIENCE
- 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 improvement.
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 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.
- Demonstrated 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.
WHAT YOU'LL GET
Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:
- Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
- Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
- Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
- 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
- Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Member Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more.
FEEL FREE TO BE YOURSELF AT AMERICAN
From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Team Member Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Compliance Engineer
Map your credentials to EB-2 or EB-3
EB-2 requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience in compliance. EB-3 covers bachelor's-degree holders and skilled workers with two or more years of experience. Confirm your category before targeting employers, since PERM documentation requirements differ by tier.
Pull prevailing wage data before interviews
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the prevailing wage for your SOC code and target metro before salary conversations. PERM requires employers to pay at or above that wage, so knowing the threshold helps you evaluate whether an offer will survive DOL review.
Find sponsors through Migrate Mate
Search Migrate Mate to identify U.S. employers with verified green card sponsorship history for Compliance Engineer roles. Filtering by employers who have filed PERM applications in your specialty narrows your list to companies that have already committed to the sponsorship process.
Verify the employer runs a compliant recruitment test
PERM requires employers to complete a mandatory recruitment test, posting roles through specific channels before DOL will certify the application. Ask hiring managers whether their compliance team or outside counsel manages PERM filings, since an employer unfamiliar with the process faces higher denial risk.
Secure your priority date in writing early
Your priority date is established when PERM is filed with DOL, not when I-140 is approved. Nationals of high-demand countries face per-country backlogs, so confirming the employer will file promptly after an offer protects your place in the queue and limits exposure to shifting cutoff dates.
Understand AC21 portability before you change jobs
Once your I-485 has been pending 180 days or more, AC21 job portability lets you move to a new employer in the same or a similar occupation without restarting the green card process. Confirm the new role falls under the same SOC classification before accepting any competing offer.
Green Card Compliance Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Which EB category fits a Compliance Engineer role?
Most Compliance Engineer positions qualify under EB-2 if the role requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive compliance experience. EB-3 covers roles requiring only a bachelor's degree or at least two years of specialized experience. Your employer's PERM attorney will determine the appropriate category based on the actual minimum job requirements, not your personal credentials.
How is green card sponsorship different from H-1B for Compliance Engineers?
H-1B visa is a temporary nonimmigrant status requiring periodic renewal, while green card sponsorship through EB-2 or EB-3 leads to lawful permanent residence. The process differs structurally: green card sponsorship requires PERM labor certification filed with the Department of Labor, a prevailing wage determination, and a mandatory recruitment test before USCIS adjudicates the I-140. There is no lottery, but per-country numerical limits create priority-date backlogs for nationals of high-demand countries.
What does the PERM recruitment test require from employers?
PERM requires employers to conduct a good-faith recruitment test before filing with the Department of Labor, demonstrating that no qualified U.S. workers were available for the role. For professional positions like Compliance Engineer, this typically includes job postings in a Sunday newspaper, on the employer's website, and in three additional recruitment sources approved by DOL. The employer must document all applicant responses and rejection reasons before PERM can be submitted.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor green cards for Compliance Engineers?
Use Migrate Mate to search for U.S. employers with verified green card sponsorship history specifically for compliance roles. Focusing on employers who have previously filed PERM applications in your specialty reduces the time spent educating hiring managers about the process and improves your chances of reaching an employer already equipped to manage the sponsorship timeline.
Can I change employers after my green card is filed?
AC21 job portability allows you to change to a new employer in the same or a similar occupation once your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more, without restarting the green card process. Separately, if your original I-140 was approved by USCIS, you can ask a new employer to file a fresh I-140 and retain your original priority date, potentially avoiding a restart of the PERM queue.