Software Engineer Java, React Enterprise Architecture

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.

Enterprise Architecture is a key enabler of the companys technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.

Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.

Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards and developing innovative tools and automate controls to ensure compliance.

Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development recognition training and enterprise outreach.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Contribute to high level design as well as detailed design of complex subsystems with emphasis in high availability and low latency.

Define and revise architectural guiding principles to steer our platform and solution development together with our other solution architects.

Conduct proof of concept to validate the feasibility and performance of proposed solutions aligning with project goals and requirements.

Engage and work with cross-functional leaders to understand and help define business principles goals and strategy within scope of responsibility. Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies.

Expertise in the definition and implementation of effective software engineering practices and processes that result in high speed to market: i.e. open-source style project maintainers PR review process issue triage code reviews code contribution metrics definition test automation strategy CI/CD optimization etc.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in computer science Computer Science Engineering or related field.

8 years of software development experience. Experience in all phases of software development including design configuration testing debugging implementation and support of large-scale business centric and process-based applications.

5 years of development experience with Web Technologies (HTML CSS JavaScript React etc.).

3 years of development experience with Java (minimum Java 8) Python or Go.
Demonstrated experience in Agile development application design software development and testing.

Strong technical capability with an intense desire to learn new skills and industry trends.
Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages and proven ability to understand and use complex data structures and associated components.

Must be willing and able to express new ideas concerns and opinions directly to wider team including tech and business partners in team meetings in person or video/tele conferencing.

Must have experience of writing applications for deployment on cloud environment including OpenShift and Docker containers.

Must have experience with performance and monitoring tools e.g. Splunk Dynatrace ELK.
Analytical skills and knack of looking for non-obvious solutions.

Knowledge CI/CD system testing test automation. Experience in infrastructure application monitoring platform stabilization and Investment performance a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with public cloud systems.

Knowledge of Function As a Service (FaaS) & Lambda.

Experience with Event Driven and Reactive Programming.

Experience developing solutions considering web privacy and security regulations.

Salary Range: $103750.00 to $174750.00 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 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. 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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