Engineering Director - Java, React, JS Stack - The Acquisition Experience Team

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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 The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

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The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

The successful leader will be expected to help structure the team optimally, determine the roles and responsibilities and working model, achieve productivity improvements and enhance Agile working practices, and lead the application and product roadmaps.

The Director will be expected to form a strong partnership within the team, and with the Product Owner, plus own performance management responsibilities for the assigned

engineering team members.

Purpose of the Role:

To lead the development of next generation distributed platforms, business services and products by aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving product quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications skills and a team player.

Responsibilities:

• Drive innovation and manage product development teams within a fast paced, agile environment.

Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement throughmentoring, feedback, and metrics.

• Identify and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce.

• Manage and/or lead software development teams, obtaining necessary resources, acting as a critical issue point and removing impediments to achieve goals and objectives.

• Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps.

• Work with a Java and React JS stack to build business services and best customer experiences, using American Express frameworks and cloud platform.

• Collaborate with a wide variety to collaborators within business and technology teams to inspire change required to implement product roadmaps.

• Enable integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product managers, technical project managers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance.

• Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and complete the development schedule for major product releases.

• Communicate to senior leaders regarding strategy direction and changes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer sciences or related experience with advanced

degree preferred.

• 12+ years of experience handling agile software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast paced, complex, and dynamic product development environment.

• Full-stack engineering expertise in building web applications revolving around technologies such as JavaScript, React JS, Node JS, Spring boot, Kafka etc.

• In-depth knowledge on Application Design, building Microservices, Testing capabilities and API implementations.

• Experience working with Couchbase, PostgreSQL, Akamai, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Google Cloud Platform, AWS.

• Extensive hands-on experience building distributed applications and managing the development of sophisticated, large scale enterprise platforms and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies.

• Experience leading large engineering teams with a servant leadership approach.

• Proven experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent and high-performance product engineering teams (i.e., Full Time Employees, not partners/contractors).

• Experience with Budget management, Scrum, Kanban, or another Agile application development methodology.

• Proven track record to influence decision-making at all levels within an organization, and in a variety of contexts.

• Knowledge CI/CD, system testing, test automation. Experience in infrastructure, application monitoring, platform stabilization and service performance a plus.

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.

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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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