American Express is looking to accelerate company growth strategies by enabling and delivering global capabilities and services. The ICRST First Line Fin Crimes team needs a Technology leader for their Value Co-Creation (VCC) team to rapidly generate customer and business outcomes by bringing Business, Product, and Technology leaders together throughout the product development lifecycle.
Requirements
- Extensive expertise in a technical domain, and advanced expertise across multiple technical and business domains
- Recent hands-on coding experience in the web and/or SOR technology stack - React, Java, Node JS, Vert.x or Kotlin.
- Experience building high performance, high availability and scalability solutions based on current industry standards.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies is required.
Responsibilities
- Work with a team of highly talented engineers to rapidly build value streams that deliver Enterprise top programs.
- Perform rapid POCs as needed to experiment and set direction for the engineering value streams.
- Think out of the box and bring an external perspective, desire to learn new technologies, ability to enable business capabilities through innovation and increase efficiency in crafting and delivering new capabilities with our global colleagues.
- Provides technical mentorship to Software Engineers at various levels.
- Leads, mentors, and coaches Senior Software Engineers and teams, fostering a culture of excellence and setting high standards and expectations for the team.
- Partner with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver features.
- Collaborate with enterprise technology teams to motivate change required and support the team in technical issue resolution.
Other
- Collaborate with Product, Business and Engineering partners to establish, prioritize and build roadmaps for VCC initiatives.
- Collaborate with a wide variety of partners within business and technology teams to inspire change required to execute product roadmaps.
- Mentor and nurture talent and promote a culture of togetherness, partnership, and continuous team improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
- Responsible for the people management of a co-located and remote engineering teams.
- Influence up/down/across and promote modern software engineering principles!
- Recruit and hire outstanding and diverse talent from the industry.
- Engage in 1-on-1 conversations with team members for mentorship and career development planning.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to cater to a diverse audience: executive collaborator, partner, engineering.
- Experience leading and building software engineering teams designing and building efficient software products in a fast-paced, sophisticated, and dynamic software development environment.
- Commitment to drive a culture of accountability and ownership to empower teams and motivate change.
- Experience leading individual contributors and providing career direction, coaching, and building development plans.
- Experience working in a distributed team model and collaborating with remote team members.
- BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other engineering disciplines.
