Senior Engineering Manager, Value Co-Creation

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American Express is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the International Card and Risk Services Technology team. The identified candidate would use their technical and leadership knowledge to drive Value Co-Creation (VCC) program delivery, from beginning to end, across technical, regulatory, and business requirements. This role requires the strong communication skills and the ability to translate business objectives into an execution strategy while resolving and tracking program risks, dependencies, and impediments to project delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Work with a team of highly talented engineers to build and deliver VCC - ICS Lending initiatives.
Recent hands-on coding experience in the web technology stack - React, and Java are preferred.
Lead and work with a team of highly accomplished engineers to build and deliver the tech roadmap.
Work with Product, Business and Tech leaders to prioritize VCC - ICS Lending platform initiatives.
Perform rapid POCs as needed to experiment and set direction for the engineering team.
Mentor and cultivate talent and promote a culture of togetherness, partnership, and continuous team improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
Responsible for the people management of a co-located and remote engineering teams.
Partner with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver features.
Apply any specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to team initiatives, helping to identify complex and/or broad problems and formulate recommendations.
Recruit and hire outstanding and diverse talent from the industry.
Influence up/down/across and promote modern software engineering principles!
Collaborate with enterprise technology teams to motivate change required and support the team in technical issue resolution.
Think out of the box and bring an external engineering expertise and view. Desire to learn new technologies, ability to enable business capabilities through innovation and increase efficiency in crafting and delivering new capabilities with our global colleagues
Engage in 1-on-1 conversations with team members for mentorship and career development planning.

Qualifications
Recent experience leading a team globally or currently a tech lead for a team.
Great at working with a team to build solutions and fearless in pushing for a better way to deliver software that solves customer/business problems.
Experience of web/mobile platforms, frameworks, and libraries such as React, iOS, Node JS, and Vert.x.
Experience building and managing tools and frameworks-with performing, availability and high scalability and bringing in new technologies based on current industry standards.
Proven experience hiring, retaining, and leading high-caliber engineering talent.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to cater to a diverse audience: executive collaborator, partner, engineering.
Experience leading and building software engineering teams designing and building efficient software products in a fast-paced, sophisticated, and dynamic software development environment. 
Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies is required.
Commitment to drive a culture of accountability and ownership to empower teams and motivate change.
Experience leading individual contributors and providing career direction, coaching, and building development plans.
Experience working in a distributed team model and collaborating with remote team members.
BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other engineering subject areas.

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.
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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

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