Software Engineering Director

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.

From building next-generation apps and microservices to using AI to help protect our franchise and customers from fraud, you could be doing ambitious work that brings our iconic, global brand into the future. As a part of our tech team, we could work together to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power our digital systems, services, products and platforms. If you love to work with APIs, contribute to open source, or use the latest technologies, we'll support you with an open environment and learning culture.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

We are looking for an Engineering Director specializing in building scalable enterprise platforms which elevate risk management The successful candidate will join the Financial Crimes Compliance Technology team within the Global Risk & Compliance Technology (GRCT) organization. The GRCT team crafts, develops, and supports critical components and platforms for new products being launched to support and improve our industry-leading credit and fraud risk practices and deliver on our platform vision. You will own the workload and priority of the Engineering teams as well as relationships with product owners, business teams, and third-party product vendors.

You are a creative, results focused engineering leader with expertise and interest in building scalable, extensible platforms which leverage data spanning the entire company. You build, develop and inspire engineering teams that build resilient, innovative and efficient solutions which are propelled by shared frameworks and platforms Beyond engineering focused talents, you enjoy improving cross team cohesion, federated decision making, and mentoring for precise communication and agreement.

• Provide engineering leadership to the team for developing features for Financial Crimes, Global Sanctions, and Anti-Bribery and Corruption platforms
• Improve engineering practices, including driving resilience, predictability, and end efficiency through automation
• Partner with product teams to envision and deliver solutions which transform Financial Crimes Compliance using technology
• Build, develop and lead globally distributed teams
• Integrate platforms into the American Express technology ecosystem
• Design modern, reusable, scalable solution architecture
• Ensure engineering teams are well-managed, secure and compliant
• Collaborate with business, product, and technology partners to solution complex technology and functional needs
• Influence internal product roadmaps to optimize engineering delivery
• Mentor, Coach, and Inspire engineers.
• Develop and apply metrics and processes to ensure continuous team improvement, reliable execution, and effective operations. 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, or a related field - advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of technology leadership in a highly regulated environment.
• 5+ years building technology solutions for risk management related domains and/or law enforcement/intelligence domains
• 7+ years leading teams engineering teams building Java based solutions
• 5+ years delivering solution on Private and/or Public Cloud infrastructure. 

• Financial Crimes Compliance (Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption) experience at a large Financial Services provider
• Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services
• Experience leading engineering teams for large, transformational programs. 

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
• 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

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.  

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.