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With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and each other. Here, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact-every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success. Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join #TeamAmex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers' digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

How will you make an impact in this role?

We're looking for an experienced hands-on technical leader to help our application teams modernize applications and uplift the capabilities and resiliency of our systems, while reducing costs and improving speed to market. In depth working knowledge of mainframe middleware / subsystem components will be key to this role's success. As we explore new capabilities in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning we are also taking strides to make sure our infrastructure is more resilient and available for our millions of card members around the world.. This person will come up with creative solutions and be passionate about design and user experience. This is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, environment within a Fortune 100 company where you can directly impact real dollars in revenue growth and operational savings.

This person will join the Mainframe Operations and Engineering team whose directive includes building innovative and resilient systems at all touch points of a consumer's journey whether before, at, or after purchase. This person will be an individual contributor responsible for engineering design and architecture with a chance to influence the company's roadmap in new infrastructure technologies and capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Perform hands-on architecture, design, development and be familiar with software development methodologies.
• Able to investigate a topic and rapidly iterate on ideas despite ambiguity.
• Stitch together a solution by integrating emerging tech with legacy platform where required.
• Apply foundational automation capabilities to protect our customer experience.
• Build proofs of concepts and lead small dev teams to implement specific features.
• Help cultivate innovation and inventor mentality

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with IMS, CIMS, MQ and DB2
• Experience with new cloud and containers
• Experience with traditional Mainframe Subsystems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record to innovate.
• Validated experience and ability to work collaboratively and successfully across functional areas.
• Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering
• Consistent record of designing, developing, distributed and/or mobile applications.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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