American Express Careers
Senior Front end Visualization Architect
Job Description
The American Express Digital Architecture team is responsible for platform strategy, architecture and engineering for a core set of business-critical platforms at American Express.
- Analyze use cases, procedures, and problems to develop technical architecture for new and existing platforms, and providing architectural guidance and oversight
- Drive key architecture decisions to solve critical, complex problems for American Express Digital
- Lead a small team of domain experts to drive American Express Digital platforms technical direction and strategic objectives
- Lead architecture for large cross-functional teams across multiple geographies
- Align efforts with central architecture function to influence technical standards and progress enterprise objectives
- Network with peers on technical matters, design prototypes, system designs and enterprise-wide research projects
- Combine in-depth specialty area(s) with broad knowledge of other disciplines to deliver coherent end-to-end architectural guidance
- Focus on driving architecture towards long-term Business Unit/Enterprise goals and objectives
- Solve novel problems that impact products and/or technologies
- Evangelize new techniques, methodologies, and concepts
- Manage development of working prototypes to validate proposed solutions and minimize risk associated with delivery effort
- Perform reviews and provide oversight across various delivery teams to ensure alignment with architectural and technical strategy
Qualifications
Required skills:- Demonstrated hands-on experience in the development of technology strategies
- Experience with a range of presentation and visualization platforms and techniques
- Experience with Functional Programming Techniques
- Experience with React the react ecosystem including Redux
- Experience with d3
- Experience with SVG
- Experience with Hybrid app using React Native or ReactXP and/or progressive apps
- Broad culture of UX techniques including non-visual ones like SMS, voice, chat
- Ability to construct enterprise-grade APIs using state-of-the-art platforms like node,js , golang or JVM based reactive stacks like Vertx or Akka and using both REST and GraphQL approaches
- Subject matter expertise in one or more architectural specialties with broad exposure to relevant technology domains
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Graphics, UX from a reputable program or significant contributions to/creation of open source code bases and portfolio of visual components
Why American Express?
American Express has been making a difference in people’s lives for over 160 years backing them in moments big and small, granting access, tools, and resources to take
on their biggest challenges and reap the greatest rewards.
We’ve also made a difference in the lives of our people, providing a culture of learning
and collaboration, and helping them with what they need to succeed and thrive. We
have their backs as they grow their skills, conquer new challenges, or even take time to
spend with their family or community. And when they’re ready to take on a new career
path, we’re right there with them, giving them the guidance and momentum into the
best future they envision.
Because we believe that the best way to back our customers is to back our people.
The powerful backing of American Express.
Don’t make a difference without it.
Don’t live life without it.
ReqID: 18019572
Schedule (Full-Time/Part-Time): Full-time
Date Posted: Jan 31, 2019, 2:02:43 PM
