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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

Key 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 specialised knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives in order to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations
• Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices.

Leadership

• People Leader to individual scrum team, including B30 colleagues and contractors, dotted line leadership to B35 colleagues in scrum team(s)
• Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
• Drives the team s technical improvements and roadmap
• Takes accountability for the technical maturity of the team
• Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for
• growth in direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the team
• Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
• Working with Engineering Director to hire top talent for the team
• Minimum Qualifications
• 8+ years of active engineering with 2+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
• Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an Agile product environment
• Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
• Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Hands-on experience with Java/J2EE, RESTful API development, Microservices, BPM Tool(Pega, JBPM, Camunda etc).
• Experience of working on OneData, ACE workflow and knowledge of Case Management processes and Business rules.
• Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on architecture and solution design
• Bachelor s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree.

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