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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, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
As part of our diverse tech team, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued and you solve challenging tech 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.
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How will you make an impact in this role?
American Express is looking for a multi-layered and experienced Application Development leader in the Global Risk & Compliance Technology (GRCT) organization. The GRCT team crafts, develops, and supports critical components and platforms for new products being launched to support the next generation of customers across market segments. If you are a hands-on leader then join us and you could be a key member of this future, as we build software to support and improve our industry-leading credit and fraud risk practice and deliver on our platform vision.
The leader holds responsibility for maintenance of existing platforms, including application updates and deployment of new capabilities. You will lead the workload and priority of the Engineering teams as well as relationships with product owners, business teams, and third-party product vendors.
You will lead development and delivery of new platforms in the sanctions screening and anti-corruption spaces, maximise the reuse of Enterprise frameworks in new and unique ways, and contribute to product evaluations in build vs buy decisions. American Express is known for customer service; the goal of the new platforms is to provide the same world-class user experience for our internal customers that we provide to our external customers every day!
You will be responsible for crafting and building high performance, scalable solutions that meet the needs of our customers. You will architect, develop, and test scalable data platform components. You will collaborate with a variety of teams and individuals, including product owners and Business logic managers to understand their needs and come up with innovative solutions. You’ll work with a team of hardworking Application Developers and collaborate with product managers and solution architects to help define new products and features.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Lead a team of dedicated engineers to design, develop, and maintain Global Sanctions and Anti-corruption platforms. Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and strategic direction to ensure delivery of scalable, reliable, and performant solutions.
- Platform Development and Optimization: Drive the development and optimization of Global Sanctions and Anti-corruption platforms within established budgets for application delivery and platform health. Implement best practices for performance, security, and scalability in compliance with industry regulations and Enterprise frameworks. Identify areas for improvement and drive continuous enhancement of system performance.
- Collaboration and Integration: Work closely across teams, including product management, security, and Global Compliance, to integrate Global Sanctions and Anti-corruption platforms with Enterprise systems, APIs, and data sources. Manage shifting priorities and act as key contact for issue resolution.
- Team Development and Management: Cultivate an innovative team spirit, excellence, and continuous learning within the engineering team. Provide leadership in talent acquisition, skill development, and performance management to build a successful engineering organization.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering and 12+ years of proven experience in related fields.
- Shown expertise in building and optimizing large-scale, data-intensive platforms and orchestrating migrations from legacy platforms.
- People leadership experience. An ability to evaluate team structures and optimize them against delivery goals and objectives.
Preferred Skills:
- Familiarity with compliance screening tools and platforms, such as Lexis Nexis Bridger, and experience in their integration with custom engineering solutions.
- Experience in driving engineering excellence in the areas of coding standards, code reviews, testing practices, CI/CD pipelines and adoption of DevOps standard processes.
- Operating teams within set budgets
- Understanding of regulatory challenges related to global sanctions, anti-corruption, and financial crime compliance, and their impact on technology platforms.
Join our dynamic team and play a critical role in shaping the future of Global Risk and Compliance Technology. If you are passionate about engineering excellence, leading Engineering talent, and building innovative compliance solutions, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity! Be part of our mission to deliver cutting-edge sanctions screening and anti-corruption technology platforms. Apply now and join us in shaping the future of risk and compliance in a constantly evolving global landscape.
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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
- 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
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.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
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
- 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
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.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.