Senior Staff Architect
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 seeking a Senior Staff Core Infrastructure Architect to define and govern enterprise-wide infrastructure architecture in a highly regulated financial services environment, with strong emphasis on hybrid cloud strategy, modernization off mainframe, observability, and SRE-led resilience. This role operates at organizational scale across Global Infrastructure, spanning public cloud, private cloud, datacenters, mainframe, global networks, and runtime platforms, and partners closely with existing Cloud Architecture, SRE, and Security teams to deliver infrastructure that is observable, resilient, auditable, and regulator-safe. You will act as a high-leverage individual contributor, shaping long-term infrastructure and reliability outcomes without direct people management.
Requirements
- Define and govern enterprise-wide infrastructure architecture in a highly regulated financial services environment.
- Strong emphasis on hybrid cloud strategy, modernization off mainframe, observability, and SRE-led resilience.
- Operate at organizational scale across Global Infrastructure, spanning public cloud, private cloud, datacenters, mainframe, global networks, and runtime platforms.
- Partner closely with existing Cloud Architecture, SRE, and Security teams.
- Deliver infrastructure that is observable, resilient, auditable, and regulator-safe.
- Act as a high-leverage individual contributor, shaping long-term infrastructure and reliability outcomes without direct people management.
Responsibilities
- Define and govern enterprise-wide infrastructure architecture in a highly regulated financial services environment.
- Focus on hybrid cloud strategy, modernization off mainframe, observability, and SRE-led resilience.
- Operate at organizational scale across Global Infrastructure, spanning public cloud, private cloud, datacenters, mainframe, global networks, and runtime platforms.
- Partner closely with existing Cloud Architecture, SRE, and Security teams.
- Deliver infrastructure that is observable, resilient, auditable, and regulator-safe.
- Act as a high-leverage individual contributor, shaping long-term infrastructure and reliability outcomes without direct people management.
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
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
