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Staff Architect (Amex ID: 25009022)
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Description
Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
At American Express our Global Merchant and Network Services Technology (GMNST) team relies increasingly on the deep expertise and experience of a core team of subject matter experts in payments technology. Our Solutions Architects have both deep technical and strategic business knowledge. But they’re of one mind about using their experience, expertise and vision to drive better business outcomes. We value deep and broad knowledge of this domain in which we excel, provide solutions and consultancy to our product teams, and be great collaborators and communicators.
How will you make an impact in this role?
If you have the talent and desire to drive innovation at a rapid pace, with hands-on experience in areas of real time, high availability, and highly scalable application development, join our Solution Architecture team to help architect initiatives across the department using the latest computing techniques. We are looking for an enthusiastic, driven, and forward-thinking Staff Architect to join our mission and lead a small team of architects working on a variety of payments initiatives.
Key accounts:
Serve as forward thinking leader within the GMNST Solution Architecture leadership team, actively participating in enterprise-wide strategic discussions, inspiring change, and helping to drive vital enhancements.
Lead a team of Solution Architects who drive the technology vision, architecture and design for multiple products, and software utilities across our platforms, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of American Express, our merchants and our Global Network Partners.
Introduce enterprise architectural paradigms and solutions into the portfolio.
Drive both high level and detailed design and conduct design reviews
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
12+ years of experience in software development in a complex environment and/or comparable experience.
Subject Matter Expertise in Card Payments, including Authorization, Clearing and Settlement, Payment Tokenization and Digital Wallets
Knowledge of payment industry standards, including: ISO 8583, EMV 3D Secure and PCI DSS
In-depth knowledge of multiple of the following: Java, Go, REST APIs, Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Caches (Elastic/Redis), Public and Private Cloud infrastructure.
Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.
Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance
Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills.
Proven collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority.
High degree of technical expertise related to the core components of the tech stack.
Expertise in building highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable solutions that perform at a global enterprise scale.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred.
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Our culture is built on a 175-year history of
courageous leadership, innovation, and an
unwavering commitment to back our customers,
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and leadership behaviors, we’ve continued to set
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experience every day with premium products and
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aspirations. As part of Team Amex, you’ll build
strong relationships and collaborate
with colleagues around the world in an
environment where everyone is respected and
valued, and where you can reach your potential.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work
makes an impact, and together, you will help us
define the future of American Express.
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Ravi Radhakrishnan
Chief Information Officer
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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.
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Our tech teams power large scale platforms and products, enabling over 100 million global consumers and businesses.
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Progress as either a people leader or technical expert, while increasing your domain expertise within a high-performing team.
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