American Express · 10 hours ago
Engineering Director - Financial Crimes
Sunrise, FL
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$144K/yr - $256K/yrAmerican Express is a well-established company with a long history of innovation and commitment to its stakeholders. They are seeking a Technology leader for their Value Co-Creation team, responsible for collaborating with various partners to build roadmaps, deliver enterprise initiatives, and mentor engineering teams. The role requires strong communication skills and a deep understanding of technology domains to drive innovative solutions and improve efficiency.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate with Product, Business and Engineering partners to establish, prioritize and build roadmaps for VCC initiatives
Work with a team of highly talented engineers to rapidly build value streams that deliver Enterprise top programs
Collaborate with a wide variety of partners within business and technology teams to inspire change required to execute product roadmaps
Perform rapid POCs as needed to experiment and set direction for the engineering value streams
Think out of the box and bring an external perspective, desire to learn new technologies, ability to enable business capabilities through innovation and increase efficiency in crafting and delivering new capabilities with our global colleagues
Provides technical mentorship to Software Engineers at various levels. Leads, mentors, and coaches Senior Software Engineers and teams, fostering a culture of excellence and setting high standards and expectations for the team
Mentor and nurture talent and promote a culture of togetherness, partnership, and continuous team improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
Responsible for the people management of a co-located and remote engineering teams
Partner with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver features
Apply any specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to team initiatives, helping to identify complex and/or broad problems and formulate recommendations
Influence up/down/across and promote modern software engineering principles!
Collaborate with enterprise technology teams to motivate change required and support the team in technical issue resolution
Recruit and hire outstanding and diverse talent from the industry
Engage in 1-on-1 conversations with team members for mentorship and career development planning
Qualification
Required
Extensive expertise in a technical domain, and advanced expertise across multiple technical and business domains
Recent hands-on coding experience in the web and/or SOR technology stack - React, Java, Node JS, Vert.x or Kotlin
Recent experience leading a team globally or currently a tech lead for a team
Great at working with a team to build solutions and courageous in pushing for a better way to deliver software that solves customer/business problems
Experience building high performance, high availability and scalability solutions based on current industry standards
Proven experience hiring, retaining, and leading high-caliber engineering talent
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to cater to a diverse audience: executive collaborator, partner, engineering
Experience leading and building software engineering teams designing and building efficient software products in a fast-paced, sophisticated, and dynamic software development environment
Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies is required
Commitment to drive a culture of accountability and ownership to empower teams and motivate change
Experience leading individual contributors and providing career direction, coaching, and building development plans
Experience working in a distributed team model and collaborating with remote team members
BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other engineering disciplines
Benefits
Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
Career development and training opportunities
Company
American Express
American Express is a financial services company that provides credit cards, charge cards, payment solutions, and related services.
Founded in 1850
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Brett Mooney
CEO & Country Manager, American Express Canada
Stephen J. Squeri
Chairman and CEO
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