Sr Solutions Architect II - Enterprise Architecture

American Express • Phoenix, AZ

10h • $123,000 - $215,250

About The Position

The Senior Solutions Architect II works within American Express Enterprise Architecture, an organization in the Chief Technology Officer that enables the company’s technology strategy. Enterprise Architecture includes Architecture as Code, Architecture as Design, Governance, and Colleague Enablement. The role delivers hands-on solution architecture for a technology platform, ensuring solutions align with platform blueprints, company roadmaps, enterprise standards, business requirements, and infrastructure requirements. It focuses on cross-platform integration, API strategy, platform performance and efficiency, architectural governance, and enabling engineering teams. The architect works with business and data architects, business partners, and product engineering teams; provides technical direction and mentorship; and helps identify technology and process improvements that support strategic goals. The position requires deep expertise in bill payment and money movement domains and successful architecture implementations affecting mobile and web engineering initiatives.

American Express describes a culture founded on innovation, shared values, and Leadership Behaviors, with a commitment to customers, communities, and colleagues. The company offers development opportunities and benefits supporting colleagues’ physical, financial, and mental well-being. Work arrangements may be onsite, hybrid, or virtual depending on the role and business need.

Requirements

• 4–5 years of hands-on programming experience relevant to the assigned Technology Platform in a professional environment, or comparable experience.
• Advanced hands-on experience with application solution architecture design and end-to-end software development of complex distributed, multi-tier systems.
• Experience in multiple IT disciplines, understanding architectural concepts across business, data, technical, and solution domains, and a track record of implementation.
• Extensive experience using a systems analysis and design methodology applicable to an agile product environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with one or more core technology stack components in the assigned portfolio, such as relevant frameworks or programming languages.
• Advanced to authoritative knowledge of solution architecture, complex application systems design, and platform integration using modern approaches such as RESTful APIs.
• Understanding of supporting architecture domains needed to align and deliver solutions, including business, information, application, and technical architecture.
• Ability to conduct system design reviews to select appropriate technology, use resources efficiently, and align with strategic platform roadmaps.
• Channel-specific solution architecture skills as required by the assigned platform, such as web, mobile, voice, or interactive media.
• Domain expertise in bill payment and money movement platforms and APIs, including Open Banking, ACH, Nacha, Bill Pay, remittance, wire payments, RTP, P2P, credit/debit, and crypto.
• Successful solution architecture implementations affecting significant mobile and web engineering initiatives.
• Advanced skills with open-source components, frameworks, and complex systems integration.
• Full understanding of Service Oriented Architecture design principles, execution patterns, and performance optimization techniques.
• Ability to participate in the prevention, diagnosis, and resolution of system outages as a leader in the underlying architecture.
• Experienced-level understanding of relevant SDLC methodologies, practices, and compliance policies and procedures.
• Deep business capability domain knowledge relative to the assigned portfolio.
• Ability to achieve results with an emphasis on reducing cycle time and increasing the speed to market of new products.
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills, and effective consultative and influential leadership skills.
• Knowledge of current industry best practices regarding solution delivery disciplines.
• Strong business insight and ability to identify key issues and their impact in a broad business context.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Technology Platform solutions align with the corresponding Platform Blueprint and Company Platform roadmaps; serve as the platform’s Single Point of Contact when needed.
• Drive cross-platform integration to use and optimize platform capabilities.
• Ensure engineered environments meet business, application design, and infrastructure specifications, and remain accountable for platform integration performance and efficiency.
• Perform hands-on solution architecture design and participate in design and code reviews to achieve business outcomes and align with enterprise standards.
• Provide input and functional direction to the Technology Platform’s API strategy and implementation roadmap.
• Work with Business and Data Architects to incorporate their input into platform solutions.
• Coach and mentor engineering resources and provide advice and assistance to less experienced colleagues.
• Identify technical solutions and business process improvements that support business and IT strategic direction.
• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
• Engage business partners and product engineering teams to share and direct architecture practices that affect solution delivery.
• Provide architectural governance and review projects for alignment with architectural and technical strategy, driving the Technology Platform toward Platform Architecture Review approval.
• Advise product delivery resources on when to engage dependent teams, such as database engineering teams.
• Ensure accurate asset information is recorded in the appropriate repositories for the assigned portfolio.

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, for pregnancy, adoption, or surrogacy
• Free access to global onsite wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors, depending on location
• Free and confidential counseling support through the Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior