Description
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 Team:
The SME & Business Blueprint Engineering Organization is a part of Global Commercial Services Technology. Your organization will ensure a connected technology strategy to unleash the power of small business customer focused products and data-oriented solutions in support of the Global Commercial Services (GCS) Strategic Priorities. Your engineering team partners closely with the GCS Line of Business to deliver outstanding experiences, that includes a Small Business Ecosystem, Business Line of Credit and Business Checking Account.
The Role:
This Engineering Director reports directly to Andres Escobar, VP Engineering, Business Blueprint Platforms & BCA and will be based in New York City. Periodic travel to Phoenix, Atlanta, and other key offices is required throughout the year, up to 15% of the time.
In partnership with key Technology teams and Product colleagues, the Engineering Director is responsible for the delivery of all features and functionality on the Business Banking products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with a team of talented, hardworking engineers to build and deliver the mobile roadmap
- Work closely with product development and strategy stakeholders to understand the product and customer needs; and enable the product and customer vision for the company
- Contribute to advance the Digital Banking Platform (DBP) to improve developer efficiency
- Responsible for the people management of co-located and remote engineering teams
- Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
- Recruit best in class and diverse engineering talent from the industry at large
- Drive innovation within a fast-paced agile environment
- Collaborate with a wide variety of partners within business and technology teams to inspire change required to execute product roadmaps
- Coach, guide and promote the creation of high quality, clearly documented, and compliant deliverables across engineering teams.
- Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and implement the development schedule for major product releases
Qualifications:
- Experience in software industry building customer facing products. Ideally this experience is in the Fintech space.
- Experience managing software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast-paced, complex and dynamic software development environment
- Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies
- Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring and guiding for highly talented technical teams
- Experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent
- Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies
Minimum 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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
- 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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