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.

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 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: 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. Responsibilities: Design, build and manage enterprise platform and frameworks for Process Management, Case Management, Work Management

Designing, developing, and supporting shared technology services leveraged by the enterprise

Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices

Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation

Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies Qualifications: Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline

5+ years of software development experience

Experience in Process Management, Case Management, Work Management is required.

Experience in Automations, Cognitive OCR, AI / ML driving cost savings is preferred

Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions

Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential

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.

Every member of our team must be able to demonstrate the following technical, functional, leadership and business core competencies, including:

Agile Practices

Porting/Software Configuration

Programming Languages and Frameworks – Hands on experience in some or all of the following is preferred:

Java, Python, Go, React, Envoy, gRPC, ProtoBuf, JSON, CouchBase, Cassandra, Redis, Consul, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Drools, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Spark

Business Analysis

Analytical Thinking

Business Product Knowledge 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 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