Associate Colleague Business Architecture

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
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical dental vision life insurance and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• 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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check subject to applicable laws and regulations.

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 youll 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.

How will you make an impact in this role

The Colleague Services (CS) and Colleague Product Management (CPM) organization part of the Colleague Experience Group (CEG) also known as Human Resources plays a pivotal role in delivering best-in-class services capabilities products and tools that power an exceptional colleague experience at American Express.

This organization designs builds and continuously evolves the products and services that enable both the CEG and the wider enterprise to operate effectively and efficiently. Within CPM the Systems Management team oversees the end-to-end ecosystem of CEG products capabilities processes platforms and applications including partnerships with third parties while ensuring strong adherence to colleague-related risk compliance and governance standards.

The Colleague Business Architecture team provides strategic insight into how CEGs business processes are enabled and optimized through technology. The successful candidate will be a key contributor to a high-performing business architecture function driving alignment between strategic intent and operational execution to deliver on the CEG strategy.

As an Associate Digital Product Solution Design the successful candidate will support the Manager Digital Product Solution Design in translating business needs into clear technology-enabled solutions that improve colleague experience and operational efficiency. You will help document current-state processes and systems contribute to solution design and delivery activities and maintain high-quality artefacts that align with enterprise standards risk and governance.

Partnering closely with Technology and Product teams you will lead the creation and continuous refinement of business architecture artefacts define and embed cross-functional ways of working and shape solutions to complex enterprise-scale challenges spanning domains such as Colleague Servicing Recruitment and Payroll.

The Associate will operate as part of a globally dispersed team in a hybrid role reporting into the Manager Digital Product Solution Design.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Manager in analysing and documenting CEG business processes system flows and colleague journey maps to clarify how digital tools enable HR operations and experiences.
• Assist with solution design by translating business requirements into structured functional/process documentation in partnership with Product Technology and Business stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate living artefacts (e.g. capability models process maps system inventories) ensuring they reflect current state and are easy to consume.
• Contribute to governance and compliance activities helping prepare materials for standards adherence control testing and risk assessments (e.g. PRSA RCSA).
• Support application ecosystem visibility gathering data and preparing reports on platform health performance and integration points.
• Coordinate workshops and design sessions capturing requirements decisions and actions; track follow-ups to drive progress.
• Assist with change execution including requirement traceability user acceptance support comms-ready documentation and adoption materials.
• Participate in ideation and continuous improvement using colleague feedback and data insights to identify simplification and automation opportunities.
• Align work with enterprise priorities ensuring outputs follow established standards design guidelines and risk posture.

• Develop foundational expertise in digital product lifecycle and business architecture methods under the guidance of the Manager.

Minimum Qualifications

• Foundational knowledge of process mapping requirements gathering and user journey documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; comfortable working with data to generate insights and recommendations.
• Clear concise written and verbal communication; confident collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented and organised with accountability for accurate documentation and timely deliverables.
• Learning mindset with curiosity about HR technology product management and business architecture.
• Familiarity with HR platforms or enterprise systems is a plus.
• Awareness of risk control and governance concepts; interest in how they shape sustainable product design.
• Comfortable in agile/iterative delivery environments.

Non-considerations for sponsorship:

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.