Senior Software Engineer I - JavaScript, React - 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. 

 About Enterprise Architecture:

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

• Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.
• Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.
• Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.
• Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.

 Responsibilities:

•  Contribute to an agile team by leading user story analysis and feature grooming, solutioning, and developing thorough   features and test-cases
• Ensure excellent application usability through careful manual testing
• Lead collaborations with Product teams, development teams and backend teams to plan, test, and release high-quality features in the applications
• Provide direct oversight in estimation and assessment of feasibility of features.
• Cultivate consistent development standard methodologies
• Function as a lead member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation) and guiding your teammates day to day
• Demonstrate consistent self-reliance to achieve engineering and business goals
• Heavily participate in code reviews and automated testing
• Debug complex software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Lead the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
• Automate deployments in test or production environments.
• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections
•  Confidently be able to trace, debug, resolve production issues and report root cause analysis to leaders and business partners rapidly
• Successfully be able to manage multiple features at once and delegate work across your peers through execution including the ability to solution, refine and delivery with various tech teams and product partners
• Understands the businesses objectives and how your team directly correlates to the businesses KPIs
• Ability to report timelines reliably and confidently for features and forecast target dates based off the rapid changes that might arise.
     
  Required Skills/Qualifications:
  
  
• 7+ years of technical experience in a software development organization with a Bachelor’s or master’s degree in science computer science, Engineering or other related disciplines
• Strong programming knowledge in JavaScript and React
• Experience with Angular is a plus
• Experience in programming knowledge in Java
• Expertise in developing REST APIs.
• Experience working in JavaS