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The Digital Banking and Payments team is responsible for our Card Payments Processing and Digital Bank products. We are currently building platforms responsible for ACH, Wire, Bill Pay, Zelle, Debit, Checking, and Savings applications that allows teams to create products at scale and allow digital channels to deliver compelling experiences in a dramatically faster fashion. As the VP of Digital Banking & Payments, you will be responsible for building this innovative technology framework that facilitates developer productivity without compromising on quality at enterprise scale.
You will be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle and partner continuously with many stakeholders daily to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of transparency, experimentation, and constantly strive for improvement and learning. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions.
As the Engineering VP, your mission will be to lead a talented technical team through the envisioning and design of a next generation system architecture that enables world-class digital products for banking & payments, that customers expect from American Express. Focus will be on high scalability, resiliency/availability, and reusable patterns. Understanding of payment schemes (ACH, SEPA), reliable data exchange (file & API), balance & controls, distributed transactions & sagas, interface design, high performance transaction processing and other payment-domain related skills are a plus.
Our mission is to accelerate the pace of financial innovation and build new financial products for American Express. Our platform streamlines the process of launching and iterating financial products.
Responsibilities:
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, inclusive of responsibilities like domain-driven design, reviewing pull requests, and solution architecture.
• Ensure amazing developer experience for any assets that are built and delivered.
• Advocate and influence the development on the platform; this includes a maniacal focus on self-service, PX, and high- quality documentation.
• Balance short and long-term priorities against the business needs.
• Define and ensure an elevated level of product quality.
• Lead and own major initiatives to extend the Payments platform capabilities.
• Build secure, robust, scalable, and performant systems for processing transactions and managing customer data.
• Set and maintain high standards of technical excellence across the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize projects and communicate changes to broader audiences.
• Estimate project timelines, ensuring that projects you own stay on track and escalate as needed.
• Mentor Directors and Engineers to be successful and support career growth.
• Help hire new talent to build a stronger team.
• Deliver high-performance software solutions.
• Present performance and scale statistics of each solution.
• Work closely with Product teams to ensure products are delivered to market, on schedule.
• Ability to work in a priority-driven environment, managing multiple and changing tasks.
• Qualifications:
• 12+ years of hands-on experience in backend software development and a minimum of 4+ years of management experience with an increasing level of responsibility and oversight.
• Strategic Thinking: Demonstrated experience in defining vision, strategy and execution roadmap for complex multi- year programs with successful implementation.
• Proven track record of building high performing engineering teams who write and deliver great software products.
• Demonstrated mastery of banking and payments domain.
• Exceptional technical capability, with deep knowledge of and experience with modern software development practices, design patterns and technologies (Java, Spring, NoSQL).
• Expert-level relevant hands-on engineering skills across a broad range of technologies, including deep expertise in the construction of enterprise-grade APIs and services using state-of-the-art techniques.
• Experience in leading large development teams of 50+ people including engineering Managers/Directors.
• Recognized as an authoritative engineering leader, whose input is widely solicited across the organization.
• A Strong collaborator and communicator. You can communicate effectively with anyone, from technical engineers to strategic business partners. Communicate engineering strategies, progress, and outcomes to stakeholders, fostering transparency and trust.
• Financial and resource management. Proficient managerial skills required to operate a large organization, including budgeting, resource planning, staff management, etc.
• Your application MUST have a persuasive cover letter with proven demonstrated examples highlighting the above competencies demonstrating why you are best suited for this role.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions
Salary Range: $210,000.00 to $300,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, weÂ’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.
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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