Senior Software Engineer, Digital Banking & Payments

MainframeMaster; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express is seeking a Senior Mainframe & Data Engineer to evolve core transaction processing and data platforms at enterprise scale, enabling real-time processing and API-driven integration across the Digital Banking & Payments ecosystem.

You will partner with product, engineering, and operations teams in an Agile environment, delivering resilient, scalable solutions and contributing to platform modernization and observability.

Responsibilities

• Enhance payment processing applications and data platforms across mainframe and distributed environments.
• Build scalable capabilities supporting money movement, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Enable platform modernization through APIs, event-driven architectures, and enterprise data integration.
• Deliver batch and real-time processing solutions for high-volume transaction workloads.
• Partner with business and product teams to understand data requirements and define scalable data architectures.
• Maintain and improve data pipelines, application frameworks, and supporting services.
• Contribute as a core member of an Agile team through story refinement, technical design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Improve platform performance, data quality, resiliency, and operational efficiency.
• Advance observability, automation, and service reliability practices.
• Participate in technical reviews and drive engineering best practices.
• Support production environments through troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Mainframe

Data Engineering

APIs

Batch processing

Real-time processing

Agile

Tools

CICS

DB2

MQ

ETL tools

Job description

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

The Digital Banking & Payments organization is building the next generation of banking and payment capabilities that power customer experiences across American Express. Our platform enables teams to launch and scale financial products while supporting critical money movement, payment processing, settlement, reconciliation, and data services.

We are seeking engineers who are passionate about solving complex business problems through innovation, engineering excellence, and modern data practices. As a Senior Mainframe & Data Engineer, you will help evolve core transaction processing and data platforms that operate at enterprise scale while enabling greater agility, real-time processing, and integration across the Digital Banking ecosystem.

You will partner closely with product, engineering, and operations teams to deliver resilient, scalable, and high-performing solutions. We embrace a culture of experimentation, continuous learning, and collaboration, and welcome individuals who challenge assumptions and drive meaningful improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Enhance payment processing applications and data platforms across mainframe and distributed environments.
• Build scalable capabilities supporting money movement, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Enable platform modernization through APIs, event-driven architectures, and enterprise data integration.
• Deliver batch and real-time processing solutions for high-volume transaction workloads.
• Partner with business and product teams to understand data requirements and define scalable data architectures.
• Maintain and improve data pipelines, application frameworks, and supporting services.
• Contribute as a core member of an Agile team through story refinement, technical design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Improve platform performance, data quality, resiliency, and operational efficiency.
• Advance observability, automation, and service reliability practices.
• Participate in technical reviews and drive engineering best practices.
• Support production environments through troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.