Staff Architect - Enterprise Architecture

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 #TeamAmex 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 of #TeamAmex.

The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.

Responsibilities: 

• Perform rapid POCs to experiment and build rails for the engineering team 
• Support engineers and project managers in rapid development and deployment 
• Actively participate in team and enterprise-wide architecture and engineering discussions. 
• Introduce enterprise architectural paradigms and solutions into the portfolio. 
• Drive both high level and detailed design and conduct design reviews 
• Engage and work with cross-functional leaders to understand and help define business principles, goals and strategy within scope of responsibility. 
• Communicate to senior leaders regarding strategy direction and changes. 
• Mentor engineers and solution architects to ensure technology complexities are understood very clearly to implement solutions expeditiously with high quality 

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8 or more years of strong hands-on experience in Java and experience with backend or middleware processing.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale cloud-native platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability. 

• Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance.
• Experience with microservices architectures and service mesh technologies is preferred.
• Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills. 
• Proven collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority.
• Hands on experience in the following environments is preferred: Java, Go, Vert.x, React, Envoy, gRPC, Protobuf, Postgres, CouchBase, Cassandra, Redis, Consul, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitHub Actions, Drools, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Spark, ML.
• Deep knowledge and experience in areas of:
• Domain Expertise in one or more architectural specialties with broad exposure to relevant technology domains
• Domain Driven Designs
• Enterprise Architecture Best Practices
• Enterprise Architecture Playbook
• Versatility in API Design, API Lifecycle Management and Implementation, guiding data or information architecture
• Experience in creation of architecture standards, guidelines, and architecture decision records (ADRs)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred. 

Salary Range: $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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