Sr Solutions Architect II - Enterprise Architecture
American Express1 day ago
Base Salary
$123k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Align technology-platform solutions with platform blueprints, roadmaps, business requirements, application designs, and infrastructure requirements.
- Perform hands-on solution architecture design and participate in design and code reviews.
- Lead cross-platform integration and contribute to platform API strategy and implementation roadmaps.
- Collaborate with business and data architects, business partners, product engineering teams, and dependent technical teams.
- Provide architectural governance and drive platform solutions through Architecture Review approval.
- Coach and mentor engineering resources on solution architecture.
- Identify technical solutions, process improvements, and opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
- Participate in prevention, diagnosis, and resolution of system outages as an architecture leader.
- Maintain accurate asset information for the assigned portfolio.
Requirements
- 4–5 years of hands-on professional programming experience relevant to the assigned technology platform or comparable experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field required; an advanced degree is preferred.
- Advanced hands-on experience with solution architecture design and end-to-end development of complex distributed, multi-tiered systems.
- Experience with multiple IT disciplines, architectural concepts, systems analysis and design, and implementation in an agile product environment.
- Hands-on experience with relevant technology-stack components, including frameworks or programming languages.
- Advanced to authoritative knowledge of solution architecture, complex application systems design, and platform integration through modern API approaches.
- Experience conducting system design reviews, selecting appropriate technologies, optimizing resources, and aligning solutions with strategic roadmaps.
- Channel-specific architecture experience for web, mobile, voice, or interactive media as applicable.
- Domain expertise in bill payment and money movement platforms and APIs, including Open Banking, ACH, Nacha, Bill Pay, remittance, wire payments, RTP, P2P, credit/debit, and crypto.
- Successful architecture implementations affecting significant mobile and web engineering initiatives.
- Advanced skills with open-source components, frameworks, and complex systems integration.
- Strong understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture design principles, execution patterns, performance optimization, SDLC practices, and compliance procedures.
- Excellent interpersonal, consultative, influential leadership, business insight, and written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives.
- 6% company match on the retirement savings plan.
- Free financial coaching and financial well-being support.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite, or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need.
- More than 20 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, including pregnancy, adoption, or surrogacy.
- Access to global onsite wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors depending on location.
- Free confidential counseling through the Healthy Minds program.
- Career development and training opportunities.
Categories
Solutions 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.