Sr Software Engineer II - Financial Crimes Technology
American Express2 days ago
Charlotte, NC, USASenior
Base Salary
$123k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, configure, customize, test, deploy, and support NICE Actimize SAM solutions for AML transaction monitoring and regulatory compliance.
- Develop and maintain Actimize SAM detection scenarios, monitoring rules, thresholds, configurations, data pipelines, integrations, and supporting application infrastructure.
- Optimize SQL queries, database performance, data processing, batch jobs, and overall SAM platform reliability and scalability.
- Collaborate with Product, Compliance, Risk, Architecture, Governance, and Engineering teams to translate requirements into enterprise-scale technical solutions.
- Support platform upgrades, migrations, modernization initiatives, production troubleshooting, observability, deployment automation, and operational readiness.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical specifications, documentation, code reviews, engineering practices, and solution design.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 8+ years of software engineering or enterprise application development experience with significant hands-on NICE Actimize SAM experience.
- Hands-on experience developing, configuring, customizing, implementing, and supporting Actimize SAM and Actimize Intelligence Server.
- Strong understanding of AML transaction monitoring scenarios, detection logic, thresholds, transaction processing, and regulatory requirements.
- Proficiency in SQL and programming languages such as Java or Python.
- Experience with Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or PostgreSQL, including complex queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning.
- Experience with ETL, data mapping, validation, large-scale transactional and customer datasets, enterprise integrations, APIs, web services, and backend processing systems.
- Experience delivering scalable, secure, highly available enterprise applications and troubleshooting application, batch-processing, scenario-execution, performance, and data-integration issues.
- Preferred qualifications include Actimize upgrades and migrations, Google Cloud Platform, distributed data processing, messaging frameworks, automated testing, application monitoring, data governance, AML regulations, and AI/ML-enabled transaction monitoring.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives.
- 6% company retirement savings plan match and financial coaching.
- 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 of paid parental leave for all parents.
- On-site wellness centers, confidential counseling through Healthy Minds, and career development and training opportunities.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About American Express
American Express builds a global payments network and issues consumer, small-business, and corporate cards, plus merchant acquiring and travel services. Revenue comes from card fees, interest and lending, discount/merchant fees, and network services. Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York City, it operates the Amex acceptance network worldwide and offers co-branded cards and membership rewards across millions of cardmembers and merchants; ticker NYSE: AXP.