Job Description
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. 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.
Enterprise Architecture is an organization at American Express, and it is a key enabler of the company's technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:
- Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.
- Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.
- Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.
- Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.
Key Responsibilities:
- Mentors junior Solutions Architects and cross-functional team of colleagues, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation
- Identifies and implements technical solutions and business process improvements by analyzing business needs and leveraging innovative technologies
- Collaborates with business partners and product engineering teams to enforce architecture practices, ensuring alignment with architectural and technical strategy through governance and project reviews
- Leads technology platform solutions alignment with platform blueprints and company roadmaps, serving as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) and coordinating with relevant stakeholders
- Optimizes cross-platform integration implementing advanced integration strategies to enhance platform capabilities, performance, and efficiency
- Ensures the engineered environment meets comprehensive business, application design, and infrastructure requirements by overseeing platform integration performance
- Executes solution architecture design strategies, leads design and code reviews to ensure the delivery of desired business outcomes and adherence to enterprise standards
- Supervises the platform's application programming interface strategy and implementation roadmap by collaborating with business and data architects, incorporating their input into cohesive platform solutions
- Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives
Education and Knowledge:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, and/or comparable experience advanced degree preferred
- Have passed (or pass within 6 months) a Senior Engineer level DT Technical Assessment in at least one technology discipline relevant to the assigned Technology Platform(s)
- Knowledge of relevant supporting architecture domains required to align and deliver solutions (business, information, application, technical, etc.)
- Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture design principles, execution patterns, and performance optimization techniques
- Knowledge of current industry best practices regarding solution delivery disciplines
Work Experience:
- 8+ Years Hands-on programming experience relevant to the assigned technology platform in a professional environment, and/or comparable experience
- Advanced Hands-on experience in application solution architecture design and end-to-end software development of complex distributed (multi-tiered) systems
- Experience in multiple technology disciplines with a deep knowledge of architectural concepts (business, data, technical, and solution) and a proven track record of implementation
- Advanced knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, NoSQL and relational databases
- Experience in using systems analysis and design methodology applicable to an Agile product environment
- Proficient in usage of solution architecture diagramming tools like draw.io, archimate, mermaid, gliffy etc.
- Experience in relevant software development life cycle methodologies, practices, and compliance policies/procedures
- Experience in solution architecture, complex application systems design, and platform integration via modern approaches (i.e., RESTful application programming interfaces)
- Proficient in leveraging AI/ML/Gen-AI based components in architectural solutions, with hands-on experience to conduct POCs
- Ability to perform system design reviews to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and alignment to strategic platform roadmaps
- Channel-specific solution architecture skills as required by the assigned platform, such as web, mobile, voice or interactive media
- Advanced skills with Open-Source components, frameworks and complex systems integration
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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
- Support for financial-well-being and retirement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- 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
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.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
