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You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.

About Enterprise Architecture:

Enterprise Architecture is an organization within the Chief Technology Office at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company’s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

1. Architecture as Code : this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.

2. Architecture as Design : this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.

3. Governance : this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards, and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.

4. Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures Technology Platform solutions are aligned with the corresponding Platform Blueprint and Company Platform roadmaps; may be called on to be the Technology Platform Single Point of Contact (SPOC).

• Focuses on cross-platform integration to use and optimize platform capabilities.

• Ensures the engineered environment meets the specification in terms of business requirements, application design and infrastructure requirements, i.e. accountable for the platform integration performance and efficiency.

• Performs hands-on solution architecture design work and actively participates in design and code reviews to ensure both delivery of desired business outcomes and alignment to enterprise standards.

• Contribute to high level design as well as detailed design of complex subsystems with emphasis in high availability and low latency.

• Perform technical aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignment.

• Provides input and functional direction to the Technology Platform’s API strategy and implementation roadmap.

• Works with Business and Data Architects to align and incorporate their input into platform solutions.

• Constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions and build POC’s to experiment new technologies, databases, and other application infrastructure.

• Responsible for coaching and mentoring engineering resources on solution architecture, providing advice, mentorship, and assistance to less experienced colleagues as required.

• Interacts with business partners and product engineering teams to share and direct architecture practices that may affect business solution delivery.

• Provides architectural governance, reviewing projects to ensure alignment to architectural and technical strategy by driving Technology Platform to Platform Architecture Review (PAR) approval level.

• Ensures accurate asset information is documented and recorded in the appropriate repositories for the assigned portfolio.

Qualifications:

• 8 years of hands-on programming experience progressive experience demonstrating strong architecture, programming, and engineering skills. Firm grasp of data structures, algorithms with fluency in programming languages like Java or Python.

• Advanced hands-on experience with application solution architecture design and end-to end software development of complex distributed (multi-tiered) systems.

• 4 years of experience in working with high-scale or distributed RDBMS and/or NoSQL platforms (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redshift, BigQuery, Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, Neo4J etc.).

• Experience in building Restful APIs, with Event Driven and Reactive programming.

• Proven understanding of relevant supporting architecture domains required to align and deliver solutions (business, information, application, technical, etc.).

• Ability to perform system design reviews to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and alignment to strategic platform roadmaps.

• Advanced skills with Open-Source components, frameworks, and complex systems integration.

• Full understanding of Service Oriented Architecture design principles, execution patterns and performance optimization techniques.

• Excellent interpersonal skills (verbal and written), as well as effective consultative and influential leadership skills.

• Well versed in current industry best practices regarding solution delivery disciplines.

• Strong business insight with the ability to identify key issues and their impact in a broad business context.

• Strong analytical skills and algorithmic problem-solving skills.

• Knowledge of / experience with Machine Learning is a plus.

• Knowledge of / experience with Docker/Kubernetes and one or more public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Knowledge of/ experience in LLMs and Vector Databases is a Plus.

• Knowledge of AI concepts, such as machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, or reinforcement learning.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field required; advanced degree preferred.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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 our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• 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.

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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Job: Technologies

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24014873