American Express
Staff Architect
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Job Description
The Enterprise Technology Services organization partners with every part of the American Express business to power the company’s growth and innovation with trust and efficiency, and drive competitive differentiation with speed. We support the delivery and operations of technology, digital, and data capabilities, platforms, and services globally. Specifically, our team is responsible for the company’s technology engineering, architecture, and infrastructure, providing 24x7 support to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality experience for customers and colleagues. We also provide product management for core enterprise platforms, and lead technology risk and information security, enterprise data governance and platforms, digital product and design, and enterprise AI platforms on behalf of the company.
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.
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.
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Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- Extensive 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
- Proven experience of APIs design, including REST principles, API Gateways, Authentication mechanisms and payload encryption
- In-depth knowledge of multiple of the following: Java, Go, Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Microservice Architecture, 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
- 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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