Staff Architect - Enterprise Architecture

American Express; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express is seeking a seasoned technology professional to join their Chief Technology Officer Organization. The role involves driving architectural excellence and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance the company's technology strategy. Candidates should possess extensive experience in Java and large-scale platform design, along with strong leadership and problem-solving skills. This position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, emphasizing holistic well-being and career development.

Benefits

Competitive base salaries

Bonus incentives

Flexible working model

20 weeks paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision benefits

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Java and backend processing.
• Experience in designing large-scale platforms with high resiliency.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform rapid POCs to support engineering teams.
• Engage in architecture and engineering discussions.
• Mentor engineers and solution architects.

Skills

Java

Microservices

API Architecture

Mobile Development

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Advanced Degree

Tools

Spring

Docker

Kubernetes

React

Job description

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.
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.
The Chief Technology Officer Organization's vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.
About Enterprise Architecture:
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.
Responsibilities:
- 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 architectures?and service mesh technologies is preferred.
- Experience in Mobile Development iOS/Android - Technology Stack Swift Kotlin, Jetpack compose.
- Experience in API Architecture and Development
- 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, Spring Go, Vert.x ,React, Envoy, gRPC, ProtoBuf, JSON, CouchBase, Cassandra, Redis, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred.
Qualifications
Salary Range: $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.
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
- 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
- Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
- 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
For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .
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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.
We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
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Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
Job: Technology
Primary Location: US-New York
Other Locations: US-New York-New York
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 25007711