Engineering Director- atWork - Reporting

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and each other. Here, you will learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that is unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally. 

At American Express, you will be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we will 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 will do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong. 

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

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 on #TeamAmex. 

American Express @Work helps large and global companies manage their Corporate Card and Corporate Purchasing Card programs more efficiently online. From performing everyday administrative tasks and account maintenance, to accessing reports and utilizing reconciliation solutions, @ Work enables fast, efficient, and effective corporate card program management resulting in time and cost savings for our customers. 

We are looking for an Engineering Director to lead the American Express @ Work Reporting team. The @Work Reporting product provides large and global corporate customers access to program management information online, 24/7, in a secure, password-protected Web environment. Your team will be responsible for building a variety of standard and customizable reports and statements, made available in multiple formats and media.  

If you have the talent and desire to develop innovative products and services at a rapid pace, work as part of a customer centric organization, serving our customers seamlessly across the globe through various channels, join our team! 

Key Responsibilities:

Software Development:

• Ensures their teams successfully develop, deploy, support, and monitor software across various environments.
• Delivering software solutions that meet or exceed customer and partner expectations by developing and driving innovation and experimentation within Technology.
• Able to share technology domain expertise with architects and other specialists across multiple organizations.
• Ensure frictionless automated delivery from the teams.
• Empower teams to succeed at scale.

Leadership:

• Promote, empower, and practice servant leadership. 
• Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics. 
• Recruit and cultivate top talent by driving technical and leadership development. 
• Collaborate with a wide variety to partners within business and technology teams. 
• Motivate change required to execute product roadmaps. 
• Coach, guide, and promote creation of high quality, clearly documented, and compliant work across engineering teams.
• Ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps.
• Ensures automated CI/CD pipeline and a production environment that scales to meet anticipated demand.
• Lead multiple agile software product development teams that realize the company’s technology vision and strategy in a scalable, iterative environment 
• Collaborates with peers and partners to drive software solutions that align to strategic roadmaps, prioritized initiatives, and strategic technology directions, and contributes to engineering best practices across the company   

Qualifications: 

• 10+ years of experience leading software engineering teams 
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred.
• Extensive hands-on experience building and being responsible for the development of complex, large scale enterprise applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies. 
• Hands-on coding experience in the following technology environment - React, Redux, Angular, NodeJS, GraphQL, REST based APIs, Java, Couchbase, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Akamai, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, SPARK, PySPARK, Apache Airflow 
• Hands on experience with Abinitio, IBI, MicroStrategy, PowerBI, Tableau, or other reporting tools is a plus.  
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, or another Agile application development methodology 
• Proven experience attracting, hiring, retaining and leading top engineering talent 
• Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and developing technical professionals. 
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills required, with ability to create and deliver effective presentations to upper management and architects across the organization.