Head of Enterprise Mobile & Infra Engineering

American Express; New York (NY); On-site; USD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express seeks a senior leader to guide the Enterprise Mobile Engineering team, delivering secure, scalable mobile platform services across BYOD and CMD. You will drive end-to-end mobile engineering, emphasizing reliability and user experience, across full-stack apps, identity, and integrations.

You will partner with cybersecurity, architecture, risk, and executive stakeholders to ensure security, data protection, and regulatory compliance while mentoring senior engineers and leading

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive technology leadership experience leading infrastructure/endpoint/mobile teams at scale.
• 8+ years leading large engineering teams responsible for reliable, secure enterprise platforms.
• Deep understanding of enterprise mobile ecosystems including BYOD and CMD models, MDM/EMM, secure access, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with AI-enabled engineering transformation, telemetry, and analytics is a plus.
• Certifications in cloud, security, endpoint management, or agile delivery are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Enterprise Mobile Engineering organization responsible for BYOD and CMD services, mobile platform engineering, and full-stack delivery with emphasis on reliability and security.
• Define and execute the mobile strategy, roadmap, OKRs, and results across device enrollment, secure access, and operational support.
• Oversee engineering delivery for mobile device management, endpoint capabilities, and secure app distribution; manage identity integration and platform modernization.
• Lead a full-stack team that builds mobile-enabled apps, APIs, automation, reporting, and integration services for enterprise mobility.
• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance to ensure platforms meet security, data protection, and regulatory requirements.
• Drive modernization of mobile architecture, automation, observability, and SRE practices to improve reliability and delivery speed.
• Collaborate with product and business leaders to translate needs into platform capabilities and adoption plans.
• Provide executive oversight for incidents, health, remediation, root-cause analysis, and problem management across platforms.
• Manage vendor and technology evaluations for mobile infrastructure and integration patterns aligning with roadmaps.
• Establish engineering standards for secure development, IaC, CI/CD, test automation, monitoring, and production readiness.

Skills

Enterprise mobility knowledge

DevOps practices

Executive communication

Leadership

Analytical problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

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Job description

American Express seeks a senior leader to guide the Enterprise Mobile Engineering team, delivering secure, scalable mobile platform services across BYOD and CMD. You will drive end-to-end mobile engineering, emphasizing reliability and user experience, across full-stack apps, identity, and integrations.

You will partner with cybersecurity, architecture, risk, and executive stakeholders to ensure security, data protection, and regulatory compliance while mentoring senior engineers and leading