Senior Solutions 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.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something 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 technology, 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: 

• Ensures Technology Platform solutions are aligned with the corresponding Platform Blueprint and Company Platform roadmaps; may be called on to be the Technology Platform Single Point of Contact (SPOC).
• Focuses on cross-platform integration to use and optimize platform capabilities.
• Ensures the engineered environment meets the specification in terms of business requirements, application design and infrastructure requirements, i.e. accountable for the platform integration performance and efficiency.
• Performs hands-on solution architecture design work and actively participates in design and code reviews to ensure both delivery of desired business outcomes and alignment to enterprise standards.
• Provides input and functional direction to the Technology Platform’s API strategy and implementation roadmap.
• Works with Business and Data Architects to align and incorporate their input into platform solutions.
• Responsible for coaching and mentoring engineering resources on solution architecture, providing advice, mentorship and assistance to less experienced colleagues as required.
• Identifies technical solutions and business process improvements in support of the business and IT strategic direction.
• Finds opportunities to embrace innovative technologies.
• Interacts with business partners and product engineering teams to share and direct architecture practices that may affect business solution delive