Staff Architect

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

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:

The company is making strategic investments in new merchant products and platforms to allow the company to meet its high-reaching global growth agenda. Global Merchant Services Technology is on an exciting journey to redefine the merchant payment experience. Our Merchant platform is a distributed near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year.

If you have the talent and desire to drive innovation at a rapid pace, with hands-on experience in areas of real time, high availability, and highly scalable application development, join our GMST team to help architect the strategies for the Merchant Payment platforms using the latest computing techniques driving proof of concepts with strong hands-on experience. We are looking for an enthusiastic, driven, and forward-thinking Staff Architect to join our mission. As a Staff Architect in GMST, you will help lead the organization to the next generation interactive experience across channels.

• Serve as forward thinking leader on the GMST leadership team, actively participating in enterprise-wide strategic discussions, inspiring change, and helping to drive vital enhancements.
• Drive the technology design, vision, engineering, development, and rollout for multiple products, and software utilities across the Merchant platform, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of American Express and its merchants.
• Perform rapid POCs to experiment and build rails for the engineering team.
• Introduce enterprise architectural paradigms and solutions into the portfolio.
• Drive both high level and detailed design and conduct design reviews
• 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.

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

Minimum Qualifications:

• 12+ years of hands-on Engineering experience in a complex environment and/or comparable experience.
• Hands-on experience with Reactive and Functional programming, Java, Vert.X, APIs, Spark, Scala, Kafka, Gridgain, Apache ignite, Cassandra, Full Stack, PostgreSQL, OneData, DB/Caches (Elastic/Redis), DB2 and eCP infrastructure, Jenkins and In Memory Computing.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.
• Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance
• Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Proven collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority.
• High degree of technical expertise related to the core components of the tech stack.
• Expertise in building highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable solutions that perform at a global enterprise scale.
• 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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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.

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