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Cloud Engineering Director

AMEX
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 3/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/11/2025

You Lead the Way. Weve 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, youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, youll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impactevery colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together, well win as a team, striving to uphold our and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well 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.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers digital lives.Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

What you'll be doing :

  • Lead multiple engineering teams that iteratively deliver scalable software solutions
  • Cultivate an environment of continuous improvement through coaching, mentoring, and feedback
  • Collaborate with a wide variety of partners within business and technology teams to execute product roadmaps
  • Recruit and retain engineering talent
  • Determine, generate, and implement process improvements to streamline areas for your team such as hiring, software delivery, and internal / external communication

What we're looking for in you :

  • Proactivity : Resourceful, has grit, and a positive can do attitude; acts without being told what to do
  • Teamwork : Reaches out to peers and cooperates with supervisors to establish an overall collaborative working relationship
  • Collaboration & Influence : Ability to successfully influence and bring together internal and external stakeholders to achieve shared goals
  • High Standards : Expects personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best
  • Leadership : Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills to motivate a team and proven ability to navigate in a cross-functional setup
  • Communication : Communicates information, ideas, and concepts clearly
  • What you should have :

  • Understanding of architectural patterns for highly available, scalable, low-latency, asynchronous systems (for example, well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms)
  • Experience with any cloud-based provider like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Proven experience attracting, hiring, retaining and leading top engineering talent
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Significant experience as an engineering manager and hands on developer
  • Ability to understand and improve the quality of multiple teams and code
  • Salary Range : $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) benefits

    The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, well consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

    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
  • 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
  • Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
  • 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 paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
  • 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
  • For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our .

    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.

    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.

    US Job Seekers / Employees - to view the Know Your Rights poster and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.

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    Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

    Salary : $170,000 - $255,000

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