Solutions Architect

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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 #TeamAmex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers' digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high-performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative payment products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team!

You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world class Cardmember experiences across multiple channels, including Mainframe and APIs. You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers.

Align the worlds of business and technology.

Our Solutions Architects have both deep technical and strategic business knowledge. But they're of one mind about using transformational technology to drive better business outcomes. So if Business and Data Architecture is second nature to you, there's no better place to build a career.

Transform our business and your career.

There's no way around it, it takes a consultative approach and IT experience to drive business success. If you have both, here's some of what you'll be doing:

• Ensuring strategic alignment to Platform Blueprint roadmaps and enterprise standards
• Making certain the engineered environment meets business requirements
• Focusing on cross-platform integration to leverage and optimize platform capabilities
• Performing hands-on architecture design work and participating in design and code reviews
• Coaching and mentoring engineering resources on solution architecture.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Owns all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications; Performs hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems
• Manages and mentors teams of junior and senior engineers through ongoing sprints
• Functions as a senior member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices - tools and common components
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products
• Typically spends 70% of time on Solution Architecture for Account Receivable platform and remainder of time managing team and stakeholders through ongoing product/platform release sprints
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• Deep understanding of Account Receivable Platform.
• This "rebel with a cause" looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities

Qualifications

This high energy Solution Architect must have:

• A Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 15+ years of Solutions Architecture & Software development experience in Account Receivable Platform.
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges, and articulate sound architectural solutions
• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems
• Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software.
• Demonstrated experience with Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, IMS DC/DB, Stored Procedures in the Mainframe environment.
• Experience with MQ, SYNCSORT, REXX, CLIST, Java, and Easytrieve is a plus.
• Experience with Mainframe tools such as File/Aid, Strobe, Xpediter, JHS, Control/M is a plus.
• Experience with Mainframe CICD such as Rational Suite or ISPW is a plus.
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, message queuing, and relational/XML databases is a plus
• Experience with web services and Open API development, REST APIs as well as SOA concepts is a plus
• Experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods is a plus
• Ability to effectively communicate across third parties, technical, and business product managers on Solution Architecture & Design is a plus
• Experience with Account Receivables industry is a must.

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + 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.

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.

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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Non-considerations for sponsorship:

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Considerations for sponsorship:

Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.