"I began working at American Express in 2007 through a campus recruitment program. I now lead a team managing business intelligence tools and platforms, creating data capabilities and insights for measuring the performance of acquisition channels, marketing campaigns, cobrand products & Digital experience channels. It’s been exciting and rewarding!"

Neha Singh
Vice President, Enterprise Business Intelligence Engineering

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Staff Architect

American Express is entering into a technology transformation phase driven by opportunities to modernize legacy platforms, and explore modern software to be on the leading edge of payment card industry. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, with deep hands on experience and strategic thinking, in areas of real time, high available and highly scalable application development, join our enterprise architecture team to help transform the payment network platform to a state of the art distributed and global processing environment. This individual will architect cutting-edge strategies for the payment process using latest computing techniques driving proof of concepts with strong hands-on experience. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications skills to adopt the concepts into production.

Responsibilities:

- Perform rapid POCs to experiment and build rails for the engineering team

- Support engineers and project managers in rapid development and deployment

- Actively participate in team and enterprise-wide architecture and engineering discussions.

- Introduce enterprise architectural paradigms and solutions into the portfolio.

- Drive both high level and detailed design and conduct design reviews

- Engage and work with cross-functional leaders to understand and help define business principles, goals and strategy within scope of responsibility.

- Communicate to senior leaders with regard to strategy direction and changes.

- Mentor engineers and solution architects to ensure technology complexities are understood very clearly to implement solutions expeditiously with high quality

Qualifications:

- 14 or more years of strong hands on experience in Java and experience with backend or middle ware processing

- Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.

- Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance

- Experience with micro services architectures and service mesh technologies is preferred.

- Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills.

- Proven collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority

- Hands on experience in the following environments is preferred: Java,Go,Vert.x,React, Envoy, gRPC, ProtoBuf, JASON, CouchBase, Cassandra, Redis,Consul, Jenkins, docker, Kubernates, OpenShift, Drools, Elastic Stack,Kafka, Spark, ML

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred.

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