Senior Engineering Manager

American Express; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead its Cloud Engineering team in London. This role focuses on building core cloud capabilities and API engineering while managing a team to enhance application development. Candidates should have extensive cloud experience and strong leadership abilities, as well as a commitment to quality and collaboration.

Benefits

Competitive base salaries

Bonus incentives

Comprehensive medical benefits

Flexible working model

Generous paid parental leave

Access to wellness centers

Confidential counseling support

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in cloud environments.
• Thorough understanding of CI/CD processes and tools.
• Experience with API platforms and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a local Scrum team to develop cloud capabilities.
• Work with global teams on product roadmap execution.
• Ensure high-quality product releases in compliance with regulations.

Skills

Engineering delivery experience

Cloud native principles

Microservices architecture

API building experience

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Agile principles

Quality assurance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

Cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

API Gateways

Job description

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.

American Express Cloud Engineering provides comprehensive platform that enables business critical applications to have faster Time-to-Market for American Express. The platform offers fast-paced rapid code-to-development models and services such as Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, DB-as-a-Service, CICD Pipelines, etc. for application developers in a hybrid cloud environment. Amex Cloud Platform enables Application developers to write modern scalable cloud native applications.

How will you make an impact in this role?
As a Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering you will be part of the Platform Engineering Team of Cloud that build core Cloud capabilities to enable Application teams to build modern applications. The architecture includes PaaS/IaaS/CICD components in a Hybrid Cloud model and technologies that drive to build modern applications.
Responsible for leading an engineering team within the Cloud platform engineering team responsible for API engineering and driving the engineering efforts around the platform APIs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Work with the engineering director and lead a scrum team of engineers working closely with the global engineering teams around building Cloud capabilities for American Express Developer in an Agile model.
• Manage a local Scrum team in collaboration with global Engineering and product organization.
• Work with the engineering director and collaborate with global Product, Engineering and Ops teams to build, prune, and execute the roadmap to the Organizational goals.
• Develop and maintain a high Caliber team that can design and develop high quality products for American Express
• Partner locally with local AET (American Express Technology) teams to guide and assist in design and develop modern application architectures.
• Liaise effectively with the product teams and establish highly collaborative, productive, partnerships with stakeholders.
• Keep up with the latest industry research and emerging technologies to ensure we are appropriately leveraging new techniques and capabilities.
• Ensure product releases are high quality, deliver excellent user experiences, perform seamlessly at scale, and comply with regulatory requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven engineering delivery experience working with global teams.
• Understanding of Cloud native principles and microservices application architectures
• Experience in building and architecting API driven platforms with good understanding of application development languages/platforms (Java, .NET, Go, Python, etc.)
• Experience in building and architecting the UI planforms and solid experience with ReactJS, Angular and JavaScript.
• Must have experience of Kubernetes, Openshift, infra as code frameworks, API Gateways, CNCF technologies, CI/CD tools, Cloud Native application architectures, and various public cloud services like AWS, GCP, Azure
• Professional Certifications in Public Cloud and/or CNCF related technologies preferred.
• Excellent understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD) tools and processes (Example: Jenkins, Ansible, etc.)
• Thorough understanding of Agile principles and processes
• Passion and drive for quality of Software and Infrastructure products
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related science discipline or relevant experience

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
• 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.