Software Engineer - Java , API - GCO

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?

Extraordinary colleague digital experiences don’t happen by accident. As an engineer supporting the General Counsel’s Organization (GCO), you will engineer and integrate solutions that leverage best-of-breed vendor products and services to support the mission of the GCO to protect and strengthen American Express through world-class expertise and strategic advice.

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 our GCO colleagues depend on.

• Automating Legal workflows
• Building seamless integrations between vendor products and the Amex environment by developing APIs, utilizing enterprise file transfer, and Identity and Access platforms
• Collaborating with product owners, delivery managers, vendors, engineers, architects, and key stakeholders to resolve complex technical problems and create solutions for the GCO portfolio.
• Maintaining the Platform Health of vendor products through vulnerability remediation, CMDB validation and maintenance, threat modeling, and ensuring enterprise resiliency

Job Responsibilities:

• Function as an engineer on an Agile team, contributing to the technical delivery through consistent engineering practices (usage of enterprise tools, reusable components, and technical documentation)
• Develop deep understanding of GCO application logic, middleware, backend technologies, and dependencies within the context of a hybrid environment (SaaS and on-prem)
• Perform technical aspects of software development, configuration, and remediation for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments.
• Develop, support, configure, and maintain strategic applications for Global Real Estate portfolio of applications
• Provide L2/L3 production support for GCO applications.
• Automate deployments in test and production environments and leverage enterprise CI/CD
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical peers, and business 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.

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