Senior Data Architect II

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.

Business Outcomes:

Manage multiple financial processes spanning across multiple Business Units for Planning & Investment Management by leveraging IBM Cognos TM1 platform and capabilities
Independently handle customers and their expectations around multiple aspects including on-going support, enhancement, new solutions.
Lead and Support BAU functions like Month-end maintenance, environment prep and rollout activities
Training & Troubleshooting for both team members and business partners
In capacity of an expert with proven credentials over a period of time,
Take lead in E2E architecture, design, build and implementation of new financial processes / enrichment or customization of existing processes by offering optimum solutions leveraging IBM Cognos TM1 platform and capabilities.
End to end designing, building and implementation of cross functional projects of strategic importance.
Consistently improve current financial processes vide automation, enhanced controls etc by adopting best practices and new capabilities.
Lead and Contribute to the assessment and improvement of impact of all processes to the platform / server.
Consistently look for opportunities to drive value to customers by leveraging existing and new capabilities.
Proven ability to manage a team of professionals including engagement, career pathing, goals, development plans, performance conversations.

Leadership Outcomes:

Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.
Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings
Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity
Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day
Must be an independent self-starter who is able to perform at a high level under pressure, lead/coordinate activities of cross-organizational teams

Behavioral

Enterprise Leadership Behaviors
Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective
Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential
Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly &Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage

REQUIRED SKILL SETS

Project experience, in capacity of an expert, of designing, building, managing technology solutions for finance processes particularly IBM Cognos TM1 with emphasis on problem solving, data integrity and automation.
Strong experience of Agile framework and associated toolset like Rally, Confluence, Gira etc.
Strong understanding and experience of Amex Investment Optimization functions and processes.
Strong understanding of American Express business processes and financial systems
Exhibits ability to think short and long term to identify and manage processes and resources
Exhibits ability at problem solving and has an eye to identify opportunities
Strong People management skills including the ability to guide and motivate
Strong communication skills

Academics & Experience

Graduate/Master with minimum 5+ Yrs of experience.

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.