Senior Engineering Manager

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.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and work with a team of highly accomplished engineers to build and deliver customer-centric roadmap.
• Responsible to build the new features and iterate on existing products using the latest software development methodologies and frameworks to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Work with product managers to prioritise features for new products based on customer needs; and enable the web product vision for the company and manage a list of requirements based on industry trends and new technologies.
•  Mentor and nurture talent and promote a culture of togetherness, partnership, and continuous team improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
•  Responsible for the people management of a co-located and remote engineering teams. * Recruit and hire outstanding and diverse web talent from the industry.
•  Influence up/down/across and promote modern software engineering principles! * Collaborate with product and business and technology teams to motivate change required to implement product roadmaps and support the team in technical issue resolution.
•  Think out of the box and bring an external engineering expertise and view. Desire to learn new technologies, ability to enable business capabilities through innovation and increase efficiency in crafting and delivering new capabilities with our global colleagues.
•  Engage in 1-on-1 conversations with team members for mentorship and career development planning. * Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and implement the development schedule for major product releases

Qualifications:

•  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree would be a plus
• 10+ years of software development experience with 6+ years of hands-on engineering/development experience in Java/Python/Scala etc
•  3+ years of experience leading multiple scrum teams of engineers
•  Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring and guiding for highly talented technical teams.
•  Proven experience in hiring, retaining, and leading high-caliber engineering talent.
•  Experience in building data platforms in cloud will a big plus
•  Great to have :- GCP professional certification - Data Engineer/Cloud Architect will be preferable
•  Experience working with Spark , Big Data and Hive
•  Experience in Git Management including PR reviews, maintaining code hygiene
•  In-depth understanding of data warehousing concaepts, dimensional modelling, and data integration techniques
•  Experience in optimising high volume data processing jobs.
•  Experience in writing APIs and spring boot services.
•  Experience in creating resilient data platforms with HA-DR setup
•  Hands-on experience on CICD pipelines, Automated test frameworks, DevOps and source code management will be a big plus (XLR, Jenkins, Git, Stash, Jira, Confluence, Splunk etc.)
•  Experience working in Agile/SAFe framework for development
•  Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to cater to a diverse audience: executive collaborator, customer, partner, engineering.
•  Excellent team-player with ability to work with global team

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.