Business Architecture Senior Manager

American Express; Burgess Hill; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in Burgess Hill is seeking candidates for a role focused on modernizing payment solutions. This position requires strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills, alongside experience in business transformation. The successful applicant will collaborate with business partners and lead initiatives to enhance network capabilities. Comprehensive benefits include competitive salaries, flexible working models, and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive base salaries

Bonus incentives

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision benefits

Flexible working model

Generous parental leave policies

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and ability to elicit and translate business needs.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to articulate complexities.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with partners to define scope and value.
• Lead transformational initiatives and enhance new capabilities.
• Present complex ideas clearly to senior leadership.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Problem-solving

Communication

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Business Process Modelling

Data analysis

Presentation skills

Job description

Overview

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.

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

The Network & Acquiring Solutions team at American Express powers global payments, working across business units and with key industry stakeholders. We tackle critical challenges like securing online transactions and driving innovation in payment solutions.

The Network & Acquirer Solutions team is modernizing our payments network with products like Debit, QR, Tokenization and Account to Account payments, enabling expansion into new markets, customer acquisition, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business partners to define scope, value, and strategic alignment of priorities.
• Lead transformational initiatives, enhancing and introducing new network capabilities.
• Present complex ideas clearly to senior leadership.
• Provide consultancy on network ecosystems, capabilities and discovery best practices.
• Deliver solutions with business and technology partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Business Process Modelling, data & insight analysis
• Excellent communication and ability to elicit and translate business needs into technical requirements
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to clearly articulate complexities
• Strong collaboration, presentation and influencing skills
• Proven experience driving results in a global environment
• Experience in business architecture, business transformation and Agile frameworks would be preferred.
• Payments industry and Business Architecture experience is preferred but not essential

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Benefits

• 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 counselling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.