Vice President, Database Products
About The Position
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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service. 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. How will you make an impact in this role? The VP of Database Products will lead the Engineering, Infrastructure, and Operations of all Database Management Systems for the enterprise. The successful candidate will lead a 200+ people global organization managing a hyper-scale database environment for the enterprise. The organization encompasses multiple directors along with a global team that engineers, designs and supports multiple on-prem and cloud database platforms. Key responsibilities include: Evaluation and selection of DBMS products, engineering and automation leadership, evaluation and selection of infrastructure, leadership of design and testing, and 24x7 operational support of the environment. Possess a good understanding of public and private cloud capabilities. Maintain close partnership with Architecture, Security, Data, Application Engineering, and Executive Leadership to deliver best-in-class database products aligned with long-term business strategy. Given the scale of the setup, the leader should have experience: leading a large global team, managing large commercial contracts, vendor engagement, and effectively managing risk while solving for business requirements.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in database engineering, infrastructure, or data platforms.
- Demonstrated success leading cloud migrations and modernization initiatives.
- Experience patching, monitoring, and supporting critical systems at scale.
- Strong financial acumen and ability to balance refresh, staffing, support, software, and budget priorities.
- Ability to make decisions and take action while under pressure.
- Troubleshooting expertise and knowledge of the AMEX infrastructure eco-system.
- Demonstrated ability to evolve skills and drive success in multiple technical domains.
- Strong people leader that is able to bring teams together to deliver complex solutions.
- Creative thinker having the passion to identify opportunities, develop solutions, while having the courage and drive to act.
- Strong partnership skills as this role will be highly dependent on Storage, Compute, Cloud, NGDM, and Security team for success.
- Global people leadership experience of large teams.
- Able to lead peers and teams through change.
Nice To Haves
- Financial Services experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Evaluation and selection of DBMS products, engineering and automation leadership
- Evaluation and selection of infrastructure
- Leadership of design and testing
- 24x7 operational support of the environment
- Maintain close partnership with Architecture, Security, Data, Application Engineering, and Executive Leadership to deliver best-in-class database products aligned with long-term business strategy
- Leading a large global team
- Managing large commercial contracts
- Vendor engagement
- Effectively managing risk while solving for business requirements
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- 6%25 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
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
