Engineering Director - Database Development and Automation (Amex ID: 24003742)

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Engineering Director - Database Development and Automation (Amex ID: 24003742)

Burgess Hill

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Description

Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.

The Engineering Director leads a team of Database Engineers and Data Architects within the Next Generation Data Management team, responsible for architecting innovative technical solutions and building scalable database architectures and aligned infrastructures in support of new business growth initiatives while maintaining critical compliance regulations. The Director is responsible for the modernization of database engineering capabilities to include NoSQL and Big Data technologies across enterprise. As part of modernization the Director will enable self-service for developers, by developing the tooling to automate the database processes.

Organizational Context:

The Director is engaged and influences Amex Customers that are transforming their technology and business capabilities for critical enterprise company platforms / products. The Director leverages and innovates on emerging database technologies and design patterns to accelerate business growth while reducing the overall time to market. The NGDM organization co-locates with the Software Engineering Teams providing turn-key scalable data, data architecture, and database engineering solutions. American Express is also improving the developer experience where they can perform self-service using the automation tooling which the Director will be developing.

Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will bring solid skills of software engineering and database technology trends that will enable increased usage of open source and modern database technologies. This person will train and direct a team of Database Engineers and Data Architects to ensure delivery of data solutions that meet business needs and requirements. The candidate will provide technical direction to resources, while actively participating in database, domain, and API design sessions while influencing best practices across the Unit CIO / Application teams. This position will also provide leadership to cross-functional teams while serving as the primary point of contact from inception to delivery for database needs. The candidate must have experience with CI/CD, DevOps, and Automation while the database components are rapidly being transformed to be deployed similar to application code. The Engineering Director must play a critical role in defining the technical capabilities and have an ability to market and influence the strategy to enterprise consumers.

Other key aspects of the Engineering Director role are as follows:

Leads the design and development, quality and economics of database delivery within Next Generation Data Management team within Amex. Provides direction for technical and business resources that actively participate in database selection and implementation Leads the development of database automation tools that provides better developer experience through developer self-service. Foster and drive innovation and experimentation, delivering software and database solutions that meet or exceed customer and stakeholder expectations, often helping shape business requirements in a manner that optimally leverages technology teams Deliver database products that provides superior user experiences, linking customer needs and business drivers together through innovative product engineering Cultivate an environment of engineering excellence and continuous improvement, leading changes that drive efficiencies into existing engineering and delivery processes Work with application partners to assimilate new DB technology into scalable software solutions, leveraging and contributing to engineering best practices across the company Possess a strong technical background and able to learn & apply new technologies quickly and efficiently Drives the optimization of data footprint and rationalization of applications Influence the product and technology roadmap with strategic database vendors, ensuring Amex requirements are included in the upcoming releases Attract, retain and grow top data architecture and database engineering talent across the organization, providing guidance, career development and mentorship to team members Agile - with an ability to manage data stories across multiple agile software product development teams (including scaled agile framework) to promote company’s technology vision and strategy in a scalable, iterative environment Relationship building - creating and maintaining strong relationships and partnerships with our customers (Leadership, Architects, Engineers, TPMs, Scrum Teams) across the enterprise Production Support background highly preferred.

Required skills:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field Proven experience with database technologies in: Relational Database Technologies (Oracle / Postgres / DB2 / SQL Server), NoSQL Technologies (Couchbase / Cassandra / MapR ), Data Replication Technologies (Goldengate / Kafka / IIDR) and CI/CD - DevOps - Automation Technologies (Jenkins / Bitbucket / Liquibase / Datical / Ansible / Elk / Docker) Hands-on database implementation, data architecture and systems design experience for large applications (prefer experience with banking and/or financial applications) Passion for learning new technologies People and Technical leadership experience with proven Stakeholder management skills

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Culture overview

At American Express, we have a special culture built on strong relationships, shared values and purpose, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and each other. Flexibility has always been a part of how we work and it’s here to stay with Amex Flex. Whether you’re working virtually, onsite, or seamlessly switching between the two with our hybrid option, you’ll be part of a winning team that embraces collaboration and innovative thinking and respects each colleague and what they contribute. With the powerful backing of American Express and the support of your amazing colleagues, you’ll be able to thrive personally and professionally.

Employee benefits

Bonus Scheme

Childcare Vouchers

Cycle To Work

Flexible Hours

Flexible Working

Laptop

Life Insurance

Pension

Private Healthcare

Season Ticket Loan

Wellbeing Programme

Office vibe

City Centre

Hackathons

Open Plan

Social Events

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Leadership

Ravi Radhakrishnan

Chief Information Officer

Tech overview

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. Make an Impact Our tech teams power large scale platforms and products, enabling over 100 million global consumers and businesses. Grow Your Career Progress as either a people leader or technical expert, while increasing your domain expertise within a high-performing team. Expand Your Skills Use the latest languages, technologies, and delivery practices, and demonstrate your skills at internal hackathons, open-source days, and developer events. Global Tech Career Pathways Explore roles across 5x career pathways: Engineering & Architecture; Digital Product & Design; Service Delivery; Information Security; Product Delivery & Integration. Find your place in Tech on #TeamAmex. Meet our Tech Colleagues, leading through innovation. Laurence - “What provides unparallel satisfaction in my role is having a meaningful contribution to combating cybercrime.” Will - “Being able to move into different jobs around the company keeps things varied and exciting.” Dev - “As a new colleague, I was astonished at how quickly I was able to acclimate… I’ve achieved a lot in my first year.” Eve - “I thrive on building products and architecture-as-code that cement the data culture we have here.” Meghan - “I’ve built well-rounded skills and have been able to identify the type of engineering that suits me most..” Mohan - “Amex has a stellar technology organization; I get opportunities to gain exposure across various stacks.” Learn more about Tech careers on #TeamAmex.

Engineering principles

Agile Process

Change Management

Code Reviews

Communication and collaboration

Continuous delivery

Continuous Development

Knowledge sharing

Mentoring

Monitoring and logging

Open source contributor

Pair programming