Senior Engineer - Java/J2EE, RESTful API, Microservices - Colleague Experience Tech 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.

The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.

As a Senior Engineer supporting Global Real Estate, you will develop solutions that leverage best-in-class vendor products and services to deliver reliable, flexible, scalable, and sustainable digital solutions to optimize the utilization of Amex workspaces and enhance the colleague’s experience.

If you love building solutions in an enterprise environment, engineering interfaces between systems, information security, and configuring the latest technologies, we’ll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.

You will also have a sharp eye when it comes to Information Security and Platform Health to ensure all our products and services are secure and compliant within the ever-changing security landscape.

As a part of our technical team, you will work to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power the digital systems, services, products, and platforms that Amex depends on.

You will do this by:

• Creating seamless integrations between vendor applications and the Amex environment by developing RESTful APIs, secure file transfer, and identity and access management platforms
• Collaborating with product owners, delivery managers, vendors, engineers, and architects to resolve complex technical problems and create solutions for the Global Real Estate portfolio.
• Maintaining the Platform Health of portfolio through vulnerability remediation, CMDB validation and maintenance, threat modeling, and ensuring resiliency

Responsibilities:

• Function as the technical leader on an Agile team, leading technical development of complex, enterprise-grade solutions through consistent engineering practices (usage of enterprise tools, reusable components, and technical documentation)
• Develop deep understanding of Global Real Estate application logic, middleware, backend technologies, and dependencies within the context of a hybrid environment (SaaS and on-prem)
• Lead development of technical solutions including design, coding, deployment, monitoring, and support
• Ensure alignment to technology strategy, standards, architecture, and tools/methods
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical peers, and product partners to gather requirements and communicate solutions.
• Demonstrate strong leadership in developing and resolving technical issues
• Accountability for platform health including system performance, platform availability, vulnerability remediation, standards alignment, information security, and data management.

Leadership:

• Drive the team’s technical strategy and roadmap through thought leadership and deep understanding of enterprise technology roadmap
• Mentor and guide team members for success; identify strengths and areas for growth; and hold team accountable to technology standards
• Influence team members by challenging status quo, demonstrating risk taking, and implementing creative ideas

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience in a professional environment or comparable experience