Joining ETS Governance & Control means helping protect American Express customers and company through integrated, intelligence-driven technology risk and control management. Operating at the intersection of technology, governance, and risk, the team partners across the enterprise to modernize the foundation, advance risk intelligence, demonstrate trust at scale, and reduce material risk—enabling innovation with the right controls in place. By building simplified, consistent frameworks and embedding continuous assurance, ETS Governance & Control enhances transparency, accountability, and sustainable risk reduction. The work is about empowering confident decisions, accelerating responsible delivery, and ensuring controls evolve with the business to strengthen trust and reduce enterprise risk at scale.

About Enterprise Architecture:

•Enterprise Architecture is an organization at American Express. 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.

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

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. 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.

Minimum Qualifications::
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience

•5+ years of progressive software experience demonstrating strong architecture, programming, and engineering skills

•5+ years of hands-on experience with React

•Expertise in core frontend technologies – HTML, CSS, JavaScript

•Experience building well-architected RESTful APIs

•Demonstrated ability to lead, partner, and collaborate cross functionally across many engineering teams

Desired Skills & Experience

We’re looking for an engineer with a broad skillset, who has a passion for learning new technologies and building rapid proof of concepts. The ideal candidate would have experience with many of these technologies:

•7+ years of proven Software development in one or more of the programming languages

- Java, Go, Python.•Experience building backend APIs with JavaScript/Typescript

•Experience working in Agile tools like JIRA, Confluence, Git, GitHub Actions, CI/CD.

•Experience in leveraging AI/ML/Gen-AI based components in architectural solutions, with hands-on experience.

•Preferred experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI), LLMs, Gen-AI and Agentic AI usage

•5+ years of experience in data engineering, Data Analytics/Big Data platform development using BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc .

•Enthusiasm for building secure, scalable, performant, and reliable enterprise applications

•Hands on experience with a relational database, with comfort with large schema design

•Knowledge of large scale distributed NoSQL databases

•Knowledge of OpenTelemetry / OpenTracing

•Experience building and deploying on a major cloud provided (AWS, GCP)

•Knowledge of API Gateways and/or Service Mesh integration patterns

•Knowledge and/or experience with containerized environments, Kubernetes, Docker

•Open-source community involvement