Senior Engineering Manager

You Lead the Way. We ve Got Your Back.

At American Express, you ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company s success. Together, we ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world s best customer experience every day. And we ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and lets lead the way together.

Join Our Unified Marketing Data Layer Team as a Senior Engineering Manager. Are you passionate about building unified, organized data to serve all marketing personas with consistent, reliable, and governed data? Do you have expertise in GCP Cloud and a knack for creating robust data solutions? If so, we want you on our team!

About Us: At American Express, we believe in the power of progress. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global community committed to backing our customers, communities, and each other. We offer a unique career journey with benefits, programs, and flexibility to support you both personally and professionally.

The Opportunity: We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Engineering Manager with experience in Big Data, GCP Cloud, Java, and Spark applications. As a key member of our Unified Marketing Data Layer team, you will lead UMDL scrum teams, design, implement, and optimize data solutions to support our data-driven initiatives. Your work will ensure that all marketing personas have access to consistent, reliable, and governed data.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and work with a team of highly talented engineers to build and deliver UMDL roadmap.
• Work closely with product owners to understand product and customer needs and enable the product vision for Marketing Data.
• Collaborate with product and business stakeholders and technology teams to drive changes required to execute product roadmaps.
• Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases.
• Coach and develop talent, promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and continuous team improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
• Manage co-located and remote engineering teams.
• Recruit and hire best-in-class and diverse talent from the industry.
• Influence up/down/across and evangelize modern data engineering principles.
• Think outside the box and bring external engineering expertise/perspective.
• Engage in 1-on-1 conversations with team members to provide mentorship and career development planning.
• Define best practices and drive reengineering opportunities.
• Participate in peer code reviews and technical discussions.

Why Join Us:

• Be part of a supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued.
• Work with the latest technologies and contribute to the broader engineering community.
• Enjoy dedicated time for professional development.
• Benefit from a culture of kindness, positivity, and work/life balance.

Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of hands-on experience with Big Data & Analytics solutions (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Scala, Python, GCP Cloud).
• Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring, and guiding for highly talented technical teams
• Proven experience hiring, retaining, and leading high-caliber engineering talent.
• Experience managing software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast-paced, complex and dynamic software development environment.
• Proficiency in SQL and database systems, with experience in data model optimization.
• Experience with data pipelines, Airflow, Kafka, Git, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Familiarity with Agile & Scrum methodologies.
• GCP Professional Data Engineer certification is a plus.

Benefits include:

• 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