Director-Software Engineering - Global Commercial Services

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, you'll 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?

Large & Global Enterprises is a vast portfolio with clients including some of the biggest marquee companies, industry leaders around the world. With more than 60% of fortune 500 companies utilize our corporate cards, commercial cards and other commercial products, L&G is focused on providing solutions to our clients’ complex needs while providing seamless, best-of-class services across the globe.

The Role:

In partnership with key Technology teams and Product colleagues, the Engineering Director is responsible for the delivery of all features and functionality on Corporate Loyalty products.  You will help drive a multi-million-dollar initiative to develop best-in-class loyalty solutions to support the growth plans of American Express.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build a team of talented engineers to deliver the corporate loyalty roadmap

• Work closely with product development and strategy stakeholders to understand the product and customer needs; and enable the product and customer vision for the company

• Work across the Large & Global technology organization to improve engineering efficiency and advocate for engineering best practices

• Responsible for the people management of co-located and remote engineering teams

• Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics

• Recruit best in class and diverse engineering talent from the industry at large

• Drive innovation within a fast-paced agile environment

• Collaborate with a wide variety of partners within business and technology teams to inspire change required to execute product roadmaps

• Coach, guide and promote the creation of high quality, clearly documented, and compliant deliverables across engineering teams.

• Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and implement the development schedule for major product releases

Qualifications:

• Experience developing Financial Services technology products is critical to the success.

• Experience building software for large corporate clients.

• Experience managing software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast-paced, complex and dynamic software development environment

• Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies

• Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring and guiding for highly talented technical teams

• Experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent

• Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies

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