Solutions Architect - Enterprise Architecture
Solutions Architect - Enterprise Architecture
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$ 110000 - 190000
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Salary Range: $110000.00 to $190000.00 annually bonus benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately in determining your pay well consider your location experience and other jobrelated factors.
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic wellbeing. 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 wellbeing 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 onsite 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. Thats 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 inperson culture. Depending on role and business needs colleagues will either work onsite in a hybrid model (combination of inoffice and virtual days) or fully virtually.
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You Lead the Way. Weve Got Your Back.
With the right backing people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers communities and each other. Here youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits programs and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express youll be recognized for your contributions leadership and impactevery colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together well win as a team striving to uphold ourcompany valuesand powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well do it with the utmost integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and lets 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 on #TeamAmex.
The Chief Technology Officer Organizations vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence talent strategy and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.
About Enterprise Architecture:
Enterprise Architecture is an organization within the Chief Technology Office at American Express and it is a key enabler of the companys technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:
1. Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.
2. Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.
3. Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.
4. Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development recognition training and enterprise outreach.
Responsibilities:
- Ensures Technology Platform solutions are aligned with the corresponding Platform Blueprint and Company Platform roadmaps; may be called on to be the Technology Platform Single Point of Contact (SPOC)
- Focuses on crossplatform integration to use and optimize platform capabilities
- Ensures the engineered environment meets the specification in terms of business requirements application design and infrastructure requirements i.e. accountable for the platform integration performance and efficiency
- Performs handson solution architecture design work and actively participates in design and code reviews to ensure both delivery of desired business outcomes and alignment to enterprise standards
- Provides input and functional direction to the Technology Platforms API strategy and implementation roadmap
- Works with Business and Data Architects to align and incorporate their input into platform solutions
- Responsible for coaching and mentoring engineering resources on solution architecture providing advice mentorship and assistance to less experienced colleagues as required
- Identifies technical solutions and business process improvements in support of the business and IT strategic direction
- Finds opportunities to embrace innovative technologies
- Interacts with business partners and product engineering teams to share and direct architecture practices that may affect business solution delivery
- Provides architectural governance reviewing projects to ensure alignment to architectural and technical strategy by driving Technology Platform to Platform Architecture Review (PAR) approval level
- Advises product delivery resources on the best time to engage dependent teams (for example database engineering teams)
- Ensures accurate asset information is documented and recorded in the appropriate repositories for the assigned portfolio
Qualifications:
- 45 years of handson programming experience meaningful to the assigned Technology Platform in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:
- Advanced handson experience with application solution architecture design and endtoend software development of complex distributed (multitiered) systems
- Prior experience in multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of architectural concepts (business data technical and solution) and track record of implementation
- Extensive experience using a systems analysis and design methodology that is applicable to an agile product environment
- Bachelors Degree in computer science engineering information systems or related field required; advanced degree preferred
- Prior handson experience with one or more core technology stack components within the assigned portfolio such as relevant frameworks and/or programming languages
- Advanced to authoritative level knowledge and understanding of solution architecture complex application systems design and platform integration via modern approaches (i.e. RESTful APIs)
- Proven understanding of relevant supporting architecture domains required to align and deliver solutions (business information application technical etc.
- Ability to perform system design reviews to ensure selection of appropriate technology efficient use of resources and alignment to strategic platform roadmaps
- Channelspecific solution architecture skills as required by the assigned platform such as web mobile voice or interactive media
- Domain Expertise in Bill Payment and Money Movement platforms and APIs including but not limited to: Open Banking ACH Nacha Bill Pay Remittance wire payments RTP P2P credit/debit and crypto
- Successful solution architecture implementations that impact significant Mobile and Web Engineering initiatives
- Advanced skills with Open Source components frameworks and complex systems integration
- Full understanding of Service Oriented Architecture design principles patterns and performance optimization techniques
- Able to participate in the prevention diagnosis and resolution of system outages as a leader in the underlying architecture
- Experienced level understanding of relevant SDLC methodologies practices and compliance policies/procedures
- Deep business capability domain knowledge relative to the assigned portfolio
- Able to acquire results with an emphasis on reducing cycle time and growing the speed to market of new products
- Excellent interpersonal skills (verbal and written) as well as effective consultative and influential leadership skills
- Well versed in current industry best practices regarding solution delivery disciplines
- Strong business insight with the ability to identify key issues and their impact in a broad business context
Employment Type
Full-Time
