American Express

Senior Engineer I - Enterprise Architecture

Posted On

May 22, 2025

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Oct. 26, 2025

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.

What you will be working on:

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Enterprise Architecture team. In this role you will be designing and implementing highly scalable real-time systems following the best practices and using the cutting-edge technology. This role is best suited for experienced engineers with broad skillset who are open, curious and willing to learn.

Responsibilities:

Ability to break down complex/high level ideas into concrete design and provide proofs of concept with hands-on engineering.
Ability to compare solutions architecture proposals with pros and cons.
Design and collaborate with engineering teams in System design and scaling (CAP, Appropriate choice of technology, Distributed Data stores/Caches, Read/Write Replicas, Consistent Hashing, CQRS, CRDTs).
Disagree respectfully but commit. Bring people along. Articulate and drive change
Leverage one of the tools to document and express your ideas and designs
Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies, stay up to date with and brings in new technology. Be curious.

Qualifications:

Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline
10+ years of software development experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability.
Experience with Microservices architecture, API design, Event Driven Systems, Kafka, various NoSQL databases, Data localization, knowledge of Data platform and Big Data ecosystem is required.
Experience with Cloud Native system design required.
Strong verbal and written communication skills for documenting design and communication different design patterns
Validated experience leading teams of engineers.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and multi-task efficiently.
Experience in the finance, regulatory reporting domain is a plus.
Experience working with Public Clouds (AWS,GCP,Azure) is a plus.
Every member of our team must be able to demonstrate the following technical, functional, leadership and business core competencies, including:
Agile Practices
Love dealing with fast pace, changing needs, & limited resources
Programming Languages and Frameworks – Hands on experience in some or all of the following is preferred:
Java, Database systems like Redis, Cassandra, Couchbase, Data streaming platforms like spark, flink, Kafka, Big Data ecosystem, enterprise-grade APIs using state-of-the-art techniques and best practices (GraphQL ,REST, JSON, XML, etc.) required.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

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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