Manager-Digital Product Management

American Express Company; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Bonus incentives

Medical insurance

Flexible working model

Parental leave

Wellness centers

Healthy Minds program

Career development

Job summary

American Express in Bengaluru is seeking a senior professional to own the business architecture of Risk Capabilities. You will map business processes to capabilities, deliver end-to-end solutions, and drive a multi-year modernization strategy within a Scaled Agile framework across multiple ARTs.

You will work with product and engineering leadership to align roadmaps with risk management goals, enabling global, flexible design for new use cases while controlling time-to-market and losses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years in agile product development and delivery.
• MBA or CS degree related technical field is preferred.
• 1+ years of solution architecture experience.
• Risk management experience is a plus.
• Proven ability to launch software/services with engineering teams and proficiency in SAFe and iterative development.

Responsibilities

• Create architectural blueprints for business initiatives to ensure consistency across markets and products.
• Define the architecture roadmap and deployment plan, ensuring risk processes and platforms move in the right direction.
• Consolidate and correlate disconnected business needs, processes and articulate their relevance through analysis.
• Demonstrate understanding of business process drivers for change and recommend the right solution.
• Maintain inventory and knowledge base on business processes, capabilities, and technical components including data and application architecture.
• Manage solution cadence by coordinating with Risk, AET, Marketing to identify needs and gaps.
• Brainstorm and negotiate with stakeholders to deliver optimal designs.

Skills

Agile delivery

Solution architecture

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Prototyping

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA or CS degree preferred

Tools

SAFe

Agile Release Trains

Job description

Job Description:

Business Unit Overview:Credit and Fraud Risk (CFR) is a global function, responsible for making the right credit and fraud risk decisions that uphold operational excellence, drive growth, and accelerate innovation across American Express. CFR combines technology and infrastructure with new computing techniques to make better risk decisions and provide real-time customer communications and fraudservicing.

Job Description:

• The incumbent will be responsible for the business architecture of Risk Capabilities within American Express. This is a business & technology facing role, mapping business process to capabilities, providing E2E solution for the prioritized features using program increments, ensuring flexible and global system/capability design and 1–2-year capability roadmap including performance, availability and test automation. The role involves working with product managers, business managers and engineering leaders to convert the business idea/vision into a development roadmap
• The incumbent will also be responsible for multi-year strategy to modernize platforms within American Express, along with day-to-day solution management cadence in SAFE (Scaled Agile) framework across 4 different ART’s (Agile Release Trains) New Accounts, Line Management, Authorizations and Collections processes. The successful individual ensures that the platform transformations meet the evolving needs of risk management through continual innovation, global/flexible design for new use cases to fuel growth, reduce time to market and manage losses. Requires strong organizational, technical and creative problem-solving skills. Requires strong stakeholder management and ability to influence across multiple levels of leadership. Must work well in a dynamic, complex environment and under deadline pressures. Propagates architectural flows and governance to a set of scrum teams and/or SAFE trains to deploy the new business features across markets and products for risk management.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Create architectural blueprints for business initiatives to ensure consistency across markets and products, track progress to move from legacy to future state platform
• Defining the architecture roadmap and deployment plan, working to ensure that risk processes and platforms are moving in right direction
• Ability to consolidate and correlate disconnected business needs, processes and articulate their collective relevance through analysis
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of the business process, drivers for change and recommend the right solution
• Maintain the inventory and knowledge base on business processes, business capabilities and technical components along with other architectural artefacts e.g. data architecture, application architecture
• Manage solution cadence by interacting with partners (Risk, AET, Marketing) to identify needs, opportunities, and gaps, and solve problems
• Brainstorming and negotiating effectively with various stakeholders to continuously come up with best design

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree and 3+ years in agile product development and delivery
• MBA or Computer Science degree related technical field is preferred
• 1+ years of Solution architecture experience
• Risk Management Experience is a plus
• A good balance of business acumen and technical knowledge with a proven track record of driving digital innovation and architecture with a customer-first mindset.
• An established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, Scaled Agile Framework and principles.
• Enthusiasm and passion for building great products and services and an ability to articulate product functionality.
• Understanding of the evolving compliance and regulatory requirements and environment and how to incorporate technology, infrastructure and security requirements into the product design.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners to drive collaboration and alignment.
• High degree of organization, individual initiative and personal accountability.
• An ability to solve complex problems and a highly analytical approach

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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.

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

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.

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