Senior Engineering Manager

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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.

This role requires an outcomes-driven builder, thought leader and problem solver. This passionate customer advocate is able to articulate vision into action and champions modern thinking and technology. A keen understanding and appreciation for modern technology, distributed systems and resiliency – and the persistence to get every team there – is fundamental to success in this role.

 Senior Engineering Manager are responsible for: 

• Leading teams and Owning all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications; performing hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems 
• Driving consistent development practices, tools, and common components
• Developing deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms, and supporting those teams on their own modernization journeys 
• Identifying opportunities to adopt new technologies to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
• Collaborating with the cross functional teams to identify the opportunities for improvements and optimizations and Derive solutions with Enterprise thinking
• 80% of the time spent on coding and/or hands-on technical implementation 
• Work with Staff Architects to define solution requirements and technical implementation approach.
• Drive both high-level and detailed technical designs and conduct design reviews as needed 
• Provide technical mentorship to other software engineers at all levels 
• Implement new, highly scalable platform components 
• Improve and maintain existing components of the core platform 
• Actively participate in team and company-wide architecture and engineering discussions and forums 
• Employ technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems 
• Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software for use in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related environments 

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the end to end solution strategy, and delivery for assigned applications
• Perform hands-on design, and development of systems
• Participate in Solution management discussions to drive solutions for the Enterprise.
•  Define a framework comprised of guidelines, processes, tools, and loosely coupled reusable components, to support quality of data for all interfaces, system & feeds
• Ability to solution and implement onto the processes quickly for the team. 
• Perform rapid Pilot/POCs to experiment various engineering optimization and inner-sourcing techniques
• Function as senior member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices w.r.t. tools, common components, and documentation
• Ability to identify cross functional architecture and engineering re-usable opportunities
• Optimize the current architecture and code base for various enterprise applications
• Support engineers in rapid development and deployment by re-designing & revamping the current code base to more global, composable and modularized code
• Provide guiding principles and partner with multi-functional product teams for proactive maintenance of the critical data assets owned by their respective business functions

Minimum Qualifications:

• Computer Science or equivalent degree with minimum of 9+ years of work experience designing, developing large scale applications
• Should have software design and development experience, with a deep focus on the development of API driven interactions
• Experience in Full Stacj technologies with a thorough understanding of Java. Good understanding of Spring Boot, JPA2, JMS, Spring Batch, Junit. Experience in Reactjs/Angular, Javascript. 
• Should have worked on REST API design and implementation. 
• Expertise in objected-oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms. Accustomed to microservices concepts. 
• Exposure to testing and automation capabilities such as mocking frameworks, JUNIT, Jenkins, Git, Stash, JIRA. Should have implemented or worked on Continues Integration and Continues Delivery. 
• Expertise in building fault-tolerant, scalable solutions that are performed at a global enterprise scale 
• Full understanding of Service Oriented Architecture design principles and implementation patterns 
• High energy, A proven hunger to learn new technologies and translate them into working software. 
• Ability to effectively communicate to internal and external business partners on solution design.
• Able to learn new technologies and able to guide team to perform POCs using the new tech stack
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
•  Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Self-starter with a strong affinity for driving change, demonstrated decision-making skill and ability
• Demonstrated thought leadership skills and ability to develop winning strategies

Candidates should exhibit the following high-performing behaviours: 

• Ability to share engineering domain expertise with architects and other specialists 
• Ability to adapt solutions to meet the broader needs of the portfolio 
• Develop and deliver impactful new technologies

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.