American Express Hiring for Engineering Director, Financial Crimes Technologies at Maharashtra, India Full Time

Description

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

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. 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

The American Express’ vision for providing the world’s best customer experience every single day can only be achieved with ground-breaking products and experiences powered by innovation, modern engineering practices, enterprise-wide collaboration and platform velocity, which are core attributes from the Financial Crimes team vision.

We are looking for an experienced and strategic leader for the Engineering Director role who will lead the Financial Crimes teams delivering Anti Money Laundering and Know-Your-Customers capabilities to meet the ever-increasing demand from regulators around the world, protect our customers assets and enable delightful experiences to our customers and colleagues globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit and lead a group of talented engineers tasked with critical business delivery while driving modernization of our platforms and practives

• Coach and develop talent and promote a culture of inclusion, collaboration and technical excellence

• Report to the VP Engineering and work closely with other engineering and product leaders to define strategy and drive a customer centric roadmap

• Responsible for solving challenging technical problems and producing elegant solutions as an individual contributor

• Have a Site Reliability Engineering approach to software delivery (alerts, paging, telemetry, incident management, threat-detection)

• Work on a fast-paced agile environment with competing initiatives and unplanned events that require rapid adjustment

• Productivity oriented and methodology driven. Define OKRs and continuous improvements in velocity & issue management

• Define software engineering practices and tooling: branching, code quality, build pipelines, contribution guides, monitoring strategy etc.

• Influence up/down/across and evangelize modern software engineering principles

• Think out of the box and bring an external financial crimes perspective.

• Understand the evolving security, compliance and regulatory global financial environment.

Qualifications

Experience and Qualifications

• You have significant experience in developing cutting-edge technology in the financial services and financial crimes industry

• Proven leadership experience of fast-paced and dynamic engineering teams

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to cater to a diverse audience: executive stakeholder, customer, partner, engineering

• Ability to tell powerful stories and influence at all levels of a matrixed organization across varying functions

• Experience leading individual contributors and providing career direction, coaching and development plans

• Advanced understanding of software design patterns: object oriented, functional, reactive, data-intensive, scalability, availability principles

• Proficiency in modern Java (8 ): functional concepts, i.e. reactive streams, lambdas, concurrency. Alternative JVM languages: Kotlin, Clojure a plus

• You have proven track record leading core engineering functions: code reviews, design proposals, code style/structure, contribution guidelines, release conventions, testing strategy

• Experience modeling and architecting complicated 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

• You have a solid understanding of cloud native principles: service discovery, circuit breakers, observability, distributed tracing, configurability

• Experience designing and building event-oriented stacks: Kafka, Zookeeper, Kafka Connect

• Expertise in Docker/Kubernetes and PaaS principles

• Expertise designing elegant and consumable APIs, full dominion of OpenAPI, gateway concepts, authentication/authorization OAuth, JWT

• Expertise in InfoSec practices: penetration testing, cryptography, network security

• Experience leading individual contributors and providing career direction, coaching and development plans

• You are capable of instilling accountability and achieving results.

• You have the courage to challenge the status quo and also encourages different points of views to mitigate biased decisions;

• University Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related field or equivalent experience.

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.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Job: Technology

Primary Location: India-Haryana-Gurgaon

Other Locations: India-Karnataka-Bengaluru, India-Maharashtra-Pune

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 22018846