Program Manager - Next Generation Big Data
Program Manager - Next Generation Big Data
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$ 110000 - 190000
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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 our company values and 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. Amex 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 U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web) AI/ML marketing technology enterprise communications travel and lifestyle and automation grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.
We are seeking an innovative Program Manager with an enthusiastic impactful technology mind-set to work well with a team developing Big Data solutions to drive engagement and loyalty within our existing cardmember base and attract new customers to the AMEX brand. Collaborate with technology teams to ensure the quality delivery of applications and Infrastructure components. The role will collaborate closely with business partners Project Managers Technical Engineers Architects and Leadership to ensure completeness and efficiency of solutions while ensuring alignment to standards.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Drives integrated teams driving technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product owners architects engineers and quality assurance
- Engages with business partners understand their needs and identify appropriate solutions.
- Coordinates execution of development projects from initiation through release applying SDLC methodologies and using Agile/Scrum concepts.
- Works within and across business units to prioritize plan and implement the development schedule for major product releases
- Embraces SDLC methods Agile values principles and practices. Maintain dependency plan between planned sprints; organize and facilitate daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint.
- Manages and tracks team velocity financials and other critical metrics in relation to the plan and published progress reports
- Assigns development resources to activities and monitors performance across resource channels
- Maintains dependency plan between planned sprints across engineering infrastructure and third-parties
- Manages and appropriately brings up delivery impediments risks issues and changes tied to the product development initiatives
- May perform hands on reviews of product backlog designs code test scripts and results in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues.
- Track iteration progress contributes to design discussions and issue resolution and removes obstacles to ensure iteration commitments are met.
- Ensures deliverables across engineering teams are high quality and clearly documented.
- Conducts daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint and ensures that the team is continuously learning from the past
- Finds opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science computer engineering or other technical discipline or equivalent work experience is preferred
- 6 years of technical project management experience
- Deep understanding of all aspects of software design with a demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility
- Experience managing Agile Scrum or other rapid application development teams to deliver technology solutions on that meet customer expectations for timeliness and quality
- Experience managing project budgets and reporting while ensuring compliance with Rally and Agile delivery platform
- Excellent oral and written interpersonal skills; Ability to effectively communicate across third parties and technical and business product managers
- Ability to get industry leading solutions to market efficiently and effectively
- Experience in clarifying objectives dealing with ambiguity/under-defined problems advocating for simplification and influencing teams
- Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation
- Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
- PMI Certification is a plus
- Scrum Master Certification is a plus
- Experience using Rally agile delivery management platform is a plus
- Experience with object-oriented design and coding skills across a variety of platforms (Big Data Google Cloud JAVA HTML5 BLAZE DB2 XML and Mainframe) is a plus
- Experience with web services and Open API development as well as SOA concepts is a plus
- Experience with payments technology and industry is a plus
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 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. 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 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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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
