Description
“You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible – and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.”
“Please note, Salary increases in case of a lateral move are provided only on an exception basis and in line with compensation guidelines.”
Risk Decision Technologies oversees Credit risk, Fraud risk, consumer lending products, new and refreshed co-brand products, and the features that make premium Amex card products. These business-critical, growing, and highly visible workstreams are responsible for a large portion of the revenue American Express generates.
This role is particularly interesting in that it will oversee the development of a new lending and fulfilment platform that is location agnostic (global), works for on-card and off-card loans, and spans across consumer and commercial. We will build a true platform that will encapsulate business logic and inspire downstream teams to build fully generic APIs for maximum re-use. Join us and you could be a core part of this future, running software engineering teams developing against platform vision.
The successful leader will be expected to help structure the team optimally, determine the roles and responsibilities and working model, work to advance the modernization efforts in partnership with multiple downstream teams such as Accounts Receivable, Global Onboarding Orchestration, and Servicing, and lead the application and product roadmaps. The Director will be expected to form a strong partnership within the team, and with the Product Owner, plus own performance management responsibilities for engineering team members.
This role requires an outcomes-driven builder, leader and problem solver. This passionate customer advocate is able to articulate vision into actionable plans and champions modern thinking and technology as a key pillar of his or her solutions and strategy. With a sharp customer focus and a track record of delivery and successful transformations, this hands-on leader believes in leading by example and doing things in addition to getting things done. A keen understanding and appreciation for modern technology, distributed systems and resiliency is fundamental to success in this role.
Key Responsibilities
Build a new lending platform in collaboration with multiple other teams across the enterprise
Extract existing business logic and develop a whole new robust and scalable platform for the future of lending.
Drive innovation and manage product development teams within a fast paced, agile environment
Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
Attract and retain a highly skilled and engaged team
Lead software development teams, acting as an escalation point and removing impediments to achieve goals and objectives
Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps
Collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps
Enable integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives
Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases
Qualifications
5 years of experience managing agile software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast paced, complex and dynamic product development environment
10 years of extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale enterprise applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies
Proven experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent and high-performance product engineering teams (I.e. FTEs, not contractors).
Prior experience building out platforms or capabilities in a product development
Knowledge of CI/CD, system testing, test automation. Experience in Infrastructure, application monitoring, platform stabilization and Investment performance a plus
Proven ability to coordinate across technology, business and enterprise capability teams
Requires advanced knowledge and understanding of architecture, applications systems design and integration with a detailed understanding of applicable programming methodologies.
Must have a thorough understanding of scalable, secure and robust ntier architectures for achieving end-to-end performance, scalability, availability, reliability, usability, configurability, integration and security.
Strong knowledge of Java, Vert.x, Kafka, Apigee, Relational DB, NoSql and Architecture strategies such as microservices, components, tools, concepts, best practices, standards and systems of record is strongly desired.
Bigdata knowledge is a plus
Must have a passion for Technology, combined with solid conceptual understanding and hands-on programming experience with Node JS and Web Services Technologies
Should be hands on and have the ability to understand the code and provide feedback to the team
Strong technical foundation; able to engage the team on architecture and design, and get under the hood of complex architectures, systems, and interface design.
Partner with peers in technologies to identify opportunities for code sharing, common services, joint development, etc
Keep up with the latest industry research and emerging technologies to ensure we are appropriately leveraging new techniques and capabilities.
Flawless interpersonal skills and ability to partner with executive leadership to push Technical solutions forward.
Proven track record of influence leadership and building high performance self-managing teams.
Proven track record of collaboration and bringing others along for common goals
Proven communication strategy used that is transparent and candid
Experience in DevOps Infrastructure including Containerization and Orchestration, Platform Infrastructure Strategy, Code Promotion
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related field required; advanced degree preferred
“Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.”
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
“American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
Job: Technology
Primary Location: United States
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 21025615
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