American Express - Engineering Director

ReqId - 20006915

Location - Bengaluru

Exp : 13 + Years

Job Description

Why American Express?

There's a difference between having a job and making a difference.

American Express has been making a difference in people's lives for over 160 years, backing them in moments big and small, granting access, tools, and resources to take on their biggest challenges and reap the greatest rewards. We- ve also made a difference in the lives of our people, providing a culture of learning and collaboration, and helping them with what they need to succeed and thrive. We have their backs as they grow their skills, conquer new challenges, or even take time to spend with their family or community. And when they- re ready to take on a new career path, we- re right there with them, giving them the guidance and momentum into the best future they envision.

Because we believe that the best way to back our customers is to back our people.

The powerful backing of American Express.

Don't make a difference without it.

Purpose of the Role:

American Express is looking for an energetic engineering leader responsible for product development and enhancement by actively leading 3-4 agile scrum teams. This leader will have an opportunity to build teams by hiring talented individuals and will be involved in day to day architecture and development activities.

Responsibilities:

- Drive innovation and manage product development teams within a fast paced, agile environment

- Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics

- Recruit IT professionals with business and industry experience, and develop, reward and energize a competent, effective team within the technology organization.

- Lead software development teams, obtaining necessary resources, acting as an escalation point and removing impediments to achieve goals and objectives

- Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps

- Collaborate with a wide variety to stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps

- Enable integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product managers, technical project managers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance

Minimum Qualifications :

Past Experience:

- 12+ years of active architecture, design, engineering, and implementation experience in a complex enterprise environment

- Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale enterprise applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and development of executable technology strategies

- Proven experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent and high performance product engineering teams

- Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies is required

Academic Background:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field a plus

Technical Skills/Capabilities:

- Deep knowledge of front end, middleware and backend technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Docker, Kubernetes

- Recent hands-on experience in the development of enterprise-grade API(s)

- Recent experience with agile development methodologies

- Demonstrated expertise in designing highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable solution architectures

- Demonstrated expertise in Data and Analytics field and pertains knowledge in Big Data technologies, Machine Learning, Tableau, MicroStrategy

- Good to have commanding technical skills at Bigdata.

Behavioral Skills/Capabilities:

Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

- 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