Senior Manager-Software Engineering

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?

Software Engineering:

• Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications
• Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
• Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
• Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective
• Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
• Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations

• Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices

Leadership

• People Leader to software engineering team, including B30 colleagues and contractors, dotted line leadership to B35 colleagues in team(s)
• Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
• Drives the team’s technical improvements and roadmap
• Takes accountability for the technical maturity of the team
• Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for growth in direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the team
• Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
• Working with Engineering Director to hire top talent for the team.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years’ experience with design and development in an Enterprise setting using Java, J2EE
• Experience with leading employees including having one on one sessions to provide regular feedback and mentoring
• Lead reviews of colleagues' work
• Recent hands-on experience with the primary technology stacks within platform portfolio (relevant frameworks, languages, etc.)
• Full understanding of Service Oriented Architecture design principles, execution patterns and performance optimization
• Ability to clearly communicate and collaborate well with technical and non-technical partners
• Foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills with customer-facing products experience.
• Channel-specific architecture skills as required by the platform, such as web, mobile, voice or interactive media
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL datab