American Express

Staff Architect

Posted On

Aug. 31, 2024

Location

Gurugram, Haryana

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Oct. 20, 2024

Job Description

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.

About Enterprise Architecture:

Enterprise Architecture is an organization within the Chief Technology Office at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company’s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.
Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.
Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards, and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.
Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.

Responsibilities:

Perform rapid POCs to experiment and build rails for the engineering team
Support engineers and project managers in rapid development and deployment
Actively participate in team and enterprise-wide architecture and engineering discussions.
Introduce enterprise architectural paradigms and solutions into the portfolio.
Drive both high level and detailed design and conduct design reviews
Engage and work with cross-functional leaders to understand and help define business principles, goals and strategy within scope of responsibility.
Communicate to senior leaders regarding strategy direction and changes.
Mentor engineers and solution architects to ensure technology complexities are understood very clearly to implement solutions expeditiously with high quality

Minimum Qualifications:

8 or more years of strong hands-on experience in Java and experience with backend or middleware processing.
Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale cloud-native platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.
Strong experience in applications with high throughput and performance.
Experience with microservices architectures and service mesh technologies is preferred.
Strong written, verbal communications, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills.
Proven collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority.
Hands on experience in the following environments is preferred: Java, Go, Vert.x, React, Envoy, gRPC, Protobuf, Postgres, CouchBase, Cassandra, Redis, Consul, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitHub Actions, Drools, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Spark, ML.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred.

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
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
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

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.

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