**Description** **You Lead the Way. We’ve 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, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally. At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll 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. **The Team** The SME & Business Blueprint Engineering Organization is a part of Global Commercial Services Technology. Your organization will ensure a connected technology strategy to unleash the power of small business customer focused products and data-oriented solutions in support of the Global Commercial Services (GCS) Strategic Priorities. Your engineering team partners closely with the GCS Line of Business to deliver outstanding experiences, that includes a Small Business Ecosystem, Business Line of Credit and Business Checking Account. **The Role** This Engineering Director reports directly to Andres Escobar, VP Engineering, Business Blueprint Platforms & BCA and can be based in Atlanta, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, or New York City. Periodic travel to Phoenix, Atlanta, New York City, and other key offices is required throughout the year, up to 15% of the time. In partnership with key Technology teams and Product colleagues, the Engineering Director is responsible for the delivery of all features and functionality on the Business Banking products. **Key Responsibilities** - Work with a team of talented, hardworking engineers to build and deliver the mobile roadmap - Work closely with product development and strategy stakeholders to understand the product and customer needs; and enable the product and customer vision for the company - Contribute to advance the Digital Banking Platform (DBP) to improve developer efficiency - Responsible for the people management of co-located and remote engineering teams - Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics - Recruit best in class and diverse engineering talent from the industry at large - Drive innovation within a fast-paced agile environment - Collaborate with a wide variety of partners within business and technology teams to inspire change required to execute product roadmaps - Coach, guide and promote the creation of high quality, clearly documented, and compliant deliverables across engineering teams. - Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and implement the development schedule for major product releases **Qualifications** - Experience in software industry building customer facing products. Ideally this experience is in the Fintech space. - Experience managing software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast-paced, complex and dynamic software development environment - Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies - Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring and guiding for highly talented technical teams - Experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent - Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies **Qualifications** Salary Range: $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 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 . 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 - Click here to view the “Know Your Rights” poster and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement. If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters to access the three posters. Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions. Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions. **Job:** Technologies **Primary Location:** US-Arizona-Phoenix **Other Locations:** US-Georgia-Atlanta, US-New York-New York **Schedule** Full-time **Req ID:** 24020955