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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.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

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.

Join Team Amex 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 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.

your professional development. Find your place in technology on #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.

What you will be working on:

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join our Enterprise Architecture team. In this role you will be designing and implementing highly scalable real-time systems following best practices and using the cutting-edge technology. This role is best suited for experienced engineers/architects with broad skillset who are open, curious, and willing to learn. This colleague will be responsible for designing and reviewing technical architecture across several of American Express’s top business initiatives.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing E2E technical solutions for prioritized features that span multiple company platforms

• Reviewing and refreshing technical APIs to ensure they comply with our directional API strategy

• Creating architectural artifacts (process flows and diagrams) for business initiatives to ensure consistency across products

• Engaging with both technical and business partners, with a focus on both current and future roadmaps to ensure we’re not solving the same problems multiple times

• Communicating solution architecture to a wide audience, most importantly, to technical team members who will translate architecture into user stories and deployment plans

• Demonstrating a solid understanding of business process and technical implementation – knowing how to design ideal architecture, but also how to incrementally deploy to reach that state

• Being technically hands-on at times (review code, author markdown, deliver POCs)

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience

• 5 years of progressive engineering or solution architecture experience, demonstrating strong architecture, programming, and engineering skills

• A good balance of business acumen and technical knowledge, with a proven track record of driving innovation through software with a customer-first mindset

• Demonstrated ability to lead, partner, and collaborate on technical delivery across many engineering teams

• High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability

• Ability to solve complex problems with a highly analytical approach

• Experience as a hands-on engineer

• Certifications such as TOGAF, AWS/GCP Cloud Certification

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus 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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Job: Technologies

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-Florida-Sunrise

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24010676