Staff Architect

American Express; Burgess Hill; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company committed to innovation and excellence. As part of the Enterprise Architecture team, you will leverage your extensive Java experience to design and implement robust platforms that drive business success. Your role will involve mentoring engineers, collaborating with leaders, and introducing architectural solutions that enhance performance and reliability. With a focus on professional growth, this position offers a dynamic environment where your contributions directly impact the company's technology strategy. Embrace the opportunity to lead and make a significant difference in a collaborative team setting.

Benefits

Competitive base salaries

Bonus incentives

Flexible working model

Comprehensive medical benefits

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Java and backend processing.
• Experience in designing large scale platforms for high availability.

Responsibilities

• Perform rapid POCs and support engineers in development.
• Drive design reviews and engage with cross-functional leaders.

Skills

Java

Microservices

Problem Solving

Analytical Skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Advanced Degree in related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Kafka

Elastic Stack

Job description

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 Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

Enterprise Architecture is an organization within the Chief Technology Office at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company’s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

• Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.
  
• Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.
  
• Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.
  
• Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.
  
  

How will you make an impact in this role?

• 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 middle ware processing.
  
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.
• Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance.
• Experience with micro services architecturesand 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, JSON, CouchBase, Cassandra, Redis, Consul, Jenkins, docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Drools, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Spark, ML.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred.
  

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
• 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 counseling 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.