Engineering Director

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’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

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 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. Amex 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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

This is an opportunity to lead the Technology Enterprise Data Management (the technical implementation of data governance) while heavily influencing a series of Enterprise Technology capabilities (e.g. AI/ML, Big Data, Cloud, Real-Time Event Processing & Analytics, etc.) to support the end-to-end development and execution of Amex's data management strategy, and to drive engineering excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business, product, and engineering teams to unlock the power of leveraging data across Amex.
• Drive the vision, strategy, and implementation of Enterprise Data Management capabilities, to enable the technical implementation of Data Governance, Data Lifecycle Management, Data Privacy on-premises and on Cloud.
• Partner with Enterprise Data Architecture in the data design of complex engineering solutions for both Realtime & Batch data feeds.
• Lead the Implementation of a series of technology solutions to enable Enterprise Data Deletion, Retention and Anonymization capability.
• Partner with Product and Data policy owners to build capabilities for Data Policy Management in support of Data lifecycle management.
• Ensure Technology solution for Data lifecycle management is is scalable and can solve for majority of the applications and databases in the company.
• Adopting industry leading technologies to facilitate continuous improvements on data management related efforts.
• Be a thought leader around all things Data, reviewing current and future needs alongside the Executive Team
• Strong program management, analytical & problem-solving skills
• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related STEM fields. Advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years full lifecycle product development and engineering leadership in highly available, highly scalable, high throughput systems
• Experience in building and delivering sophisticated platforms that leverage various technologies (e.g. Python, JAVA/J2EE/Web Technologies, APIs/Web-Services) and are able to scale optimally.
• Good understanding of cluster and parallel architecture as well as high-scale or distributed RDBMS and/or knowledge on NoSQL platforms (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, DynamoDB, Neo4J, MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with industry leading data management tools that support the data lifecycle, and capable of setting and driving long term data architecture roadmaps in alignment with corporate strategic objectives.
• Experience with any of the Data Management tools (or similar tools): Collibra, Dataguise, Manta, Immuta
• Experience with following message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ tools and technologies is a plus: Amazon Kinesis / GCP PubSub, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Hadoop
• Experience in development and operation on public Cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus.
• Strong team leadership and talent development mindset
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. 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

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.  

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.