Director, Software Engineering - Financial Crimes
About The Position
Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues. The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights. 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.
Requirements
- Expertise and interest in building scalable, extensible platforms which leverage data spanning the entire company
- Creative, results focused engineering leader
Responsibilities
- Own the workload and priority of the Engineering teams
- Manage relationships with product owners, business teams, and third-party product vendors
- Build, develop and inspire engineering teams that build resilient, innovative and efficient solutions
- Improve cross team cohesion, federated decision making, and mentoring for precise communication and agreement
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
