Staff Architect - 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, 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. 

Joinng Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to somehting big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. WIth a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because amex Tech is powered by our technoloy, our culture, and our colleagues.


The Chief Technology Officer Organization's vision is to set the standard for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization, and deliver great experiences to all American Express colleagues. 

About Enterprise Architecture:

Enterprise Architecture is an organization within the Chief Technology Office at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company’s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

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

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

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

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

Responsibilities: 

• Perform rapid POCs to experiment and build rails for the engineering team 
• Support engineers and project managers in rapid development and deployment 
• Actively participate in team and enterprise-wide architecture and engineering discussions. 
• Introduce enterprise architectural paradigms and solutions into the portfolio. 
• Drive both high level and detailed design and conduct design reviews 
• Engage and work with cross-functional leaders to understand and help define business principles, goals and strategy within scope of responsibility. 
• Communicate to senior leaders regarding strategy direction and changes. 
• Mentor engineers and solution architects to ensure technology complexities are understood very clearly to implement solutions expeditiously with high quality 

 Minimum Qualifications:

• 8 or more years of strong hands-on experience in Java and experience with backend or middle ware processing 
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability. 

• Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance 
• Experience with micro services architectures and service mesh technologies is preferred. 
• Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills. 
• Proven collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority  
• Hands on experi