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The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat on the organization.
Digital Workplace is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Engineering leader with an enquiring mind and tons of energy to actively provide people-leadership, deep technical knowledge and contribute to the engineering team success that will design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug work efforts for internal end-user applications. This candidate will not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day.
Organizational Context:
People leader with a span of control of at least eight team members, including both colleagues and contractors; co-located with scrum team and director. Provides technical leadership across application scrum teams.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Software Engineering
Function as member of an Agile Scrum team focused on development and delivery of high-quality data visualization and reporting solutions. Your duties will include (not limited to):
- Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large-scale enterprise applications
- Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
- Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
- Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective
- Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
- Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives in order to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations
- Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices
Leadership
- People Leader to individual scrum team, including colleagues and contractors
- Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
- Drives the team’s technical improvements and roadmap
- Takes accountability for the technical maturity of the team
- Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for growth in direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the team
- Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
- Working with Engineering Director to hire top talent for the team
Minimum Qualifications:
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
- 6+ years of active engineering
- 2+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
- Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
- Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)
- Adaptable to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
- Engaged with the open-source community, demonstrated public speaking, etc
High Performance Behaviors:
- Ability to handle project resources and achievement timelines
- Ability to track and mitigate program risks
- Ability to ensure program work meets compliance and regulatory obligations
- Ability to handle and facilitate multiple product teams
Knowledge/Skills:
- Proficient in programming languages such as React.JS, GraphQL, Java
- Demonstrated experience in agile development, application design, software development, and testing
- Experience in working on RESTful API design and implementation
- Understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT and code build tools like IntelliJ, including the ability to setup CI/CD pipeline
- Expertise in objected oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms
- Thorough understanding of JSON, Web Service technologies, and data structure fundamentals
- Experience with adaptive and responsive development techniques
- Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts
- Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners
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.
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 Colleague Benefits Site.
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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.
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