Sr Mgr-Software Engineering
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- Location
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Compensation
- $123,000 - $215,250/yr
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
- Posted
- yesterday
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About this role
Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.
The Global Merchant and Network Services Technology (GMNST) organization at American Express is responsible for modernizing the payments network to enable next-generation payments products. The team creates flexible merchant platforms to acquire, bill, pay, service and foster innovation, while enabling a payments ecosystem to connect and authenticate parties seamlessly and securely
American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda. Card Network platform is a distributed near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company’s customer card transactions.
How will you make an impact in this role?
- Collaboration with key business partners to help drive the strategic vision, technical design, development, and delivery of strategic roadmaps and prioritized initiatives such as Acquirer Platform Transformation (Amex Offers, Merchant Onboarding, Pricing, Servicing, etc..) and Merchant Acquirer Technology Platforms to ensure they met the evolving needs of American Express and its merchants.
- Driving key architectural decisions and design considerations to ensure system scalability and resiliency for transformation and modernization initiatives.
- Accountability for delivery, quality, and operational metrics of a portfolio, including system performance, platform availability, operational efficiency, risk management, information security, data management as well as cost efficiency.
- Leading a team of successful, forward-thinking, creative, multi-functional Engineering Leaders to enable delivery.
- Building a culture of innovation, and development across teams, delivering dynamic software solutions, and inspiring change.
Outcomes:
- Continual evolution of the roadmap and strategy.
- Heavily influence the success of the team’s goals and build a high-performing team.
- Consistent delivery of business value and return on investment.
- Strong performance on portfolio metrics, including High Availability, resiliency, performance and cost.
- Improve productivity, quality, and delivery velocity by introducing DevOps culture and support solutions that enable continuous integration/delivery to bring the reduction in cycle time.
Responsibilities
- Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large-scale enterprise applications.
- Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments.
- Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform.
- Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective.
- Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments.
- Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations.
- Collaborate across leadership teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices.
- Drive the team’s technical improvements and roadmap.
- Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
Qualifications
- Degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.
- 2+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
- Minimum 10 years of proven experience using Java, React, Vert.x, Spring, Spark, Postgres, Ignite, Restful APIs, Redis, Kafka.
- Hands-on experience building and delivering large scale enterprise systems/products.
- Experience attracting, hiring and retaining top engineering talent.
- Experience leading engineering teams and in agile methodologies, have enabled DevOps mindset, processes and tools
- Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems.
- Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture Significant hands-on experience in application architecture / design, software development, and testing, preferably in an Agile environment within a professional environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.
Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.
About Company
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.
Company
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.
As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.