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Solutions Engineer

$110k - $190k
Phoenix, AZ
Remote 🌴
Full-time
10001+
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🔴 Closes on: 
Oct 30

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

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 Team Amex 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 on #TeamAmex.

How will you make an impact in this role?

We are looking for an individual contributor for the Solutions Architect – Integration role. This role will support Enterprise Top Priority programs on the full software lifecycle journey from conceptualization to design and build to implementation. Solutions and artifacts will span multiple domains in support of business and/or technical requirements. Success will be driven by not just meeting the program’s needs, but doing so in manner that improves the long-term technology ecosystem including improving availability, resiliency, advancing Point of Arrival solutions, and/or decommissioning tech debt and complexity.

Key Responsibilities

  • Responsible for solving problems and producing solutions.
  • Work across multiple engineering and product domains to define strategy and drive solutions.
  • Influence up/down/across and promote modern software engineering principles.
  • Think out of the box and bring solutions that advance functional and non-functional measures of success.
  • Provide architectural governance, drive alignment on technical strategy, company platform roadmaps, and enterprise standards.
  • Identify technical solutions and business process improvements to support business and IT strategy.
  • Actively participate in team and enterprise-wide architecture and engineering discussions.
  • Finds opportunities to embrace innovative technologies.
  • Work on a fast-paced agile environment with challenging initiatives and unplanned events that require rapid adjustment.

Minimum Qualifications 

  • 8+ years of engineering experience in a complex environment and / or comparable experience
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with application solution architecture design and end-to-end software development of complex distributed (multi-tiered) systems ensuring high resiliency, availability, and reliability.
  • Proficient in cross-platform integration, middleware, and frameworks
  • Experience in modelling and architecting complex business domains and associated methodologies/paradigms i/e/ Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing, CQRS
  • Expertise in distributed architectural patterns: event driven microservices, distributed transactions: sagas, append-only logs, change data capture, idempotent consumer, eventual consistency.
  • Expertise designing consumable APIs, full dominion of Open API, gateway concepts, authentication/authorization OAuth, JWT
  • Experience in modern technologies and RDMS & NoSQL databases along with CI/CD tooling.
  • Perform POC's, build frameworks and reusable libraries to help developers resolve business problems.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills , networking skills and the ability to work cooperatively with and gain the respect of software developers.
  • Ability to give constructive feedback to engineering teams to increase product adoption
  • Proven experience in demonstrating our Enterprise Leadership Behaviors i.e.
  • Set the Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective
  • Bring Others with You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential
  • Do It the Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage  
  • University Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or equivalent field: advanced degree preferred.

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + 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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🔴 Closes on: 
Oct 30
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