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The Chief Technology Officer Organizations 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 of the organization.
The Legato engineering group is building the developer experience for public cloud at American Express. Our aspiration is to stand up a new application in minutes, allowing the company to move quickly to seize market opportunities and implement strategic priorities.
Were looking for a senior engineering manager to help lead our UK team, with the opportunity to use modern languages and tools and to deploy software in public cloud environments. Our multi-functional team spans the stack, from front ends to APIs to databases.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Engineering Impacts:
1. Lead a team of savvy engineers whom are responsible for developing complex, large scale applications
2. Partner with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
3. Help guide and improve engineering practices across teams (eg. code reviews, build and release processes or the effectiveness of scrum ceremonies)
4. Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
5. Apply any specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to team initiatives, helping to identify complex and/or broad problems and formulate recommendations
6. Collaborate with leadership across teams to define solutions that drive greater software maturity and practices
Leadership Impacts
7. People Leader to software engineering team, including junior and mid-level colleagues and contractors, dotted line leadership to other senior-level colleagues in team(s)
8. Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
9. Drive the teams technical improvements and roadmap
10. Take accountability for the technical maturity of the team
11. 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
12. Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
13. Work with Engineering Director to hire top talent for the team
Day to Day Responsibilities:
14. People leader for a high functioning team of engineers reporting to an Engineering Director who is responsible for multiple teams.
15. Lead and mentor teams of engineers through ongoing development efforts
16. Formal people-leadership responsibilities for 4-8+ engineers
Minimum Qualifications
17. Bachelors Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
18. Proven experience in active engineering
19. Demonstrated leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
20. Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an agile product environmen
21. Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices (eg. Scrum/Kanban, sprint iterations, user stories)
22. Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
Engineering & Architecture
23. Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)
24. Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing environment.
25. Adaptable to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
26. Engaged with the broader technology community (e.g. open source, public speaking, technical forums)
Preferred Qualifications
27. Adaptive Communication
28. Agile Practices
29. Industry and Company Knowledge
30. Organizational Change Management
31. Technical Acumen
32. Technology Industry Trends
33. Adaptability
34. Collaboration & Teamwork
35. Continuous Improvement
36. Courage
37. Curiosity
38. Ingenuity
39. Servant Leadership
40. Tenacity
41. Emerging Technologies
42. Programming/Software Development
43. SDLC Methodologies and Practice
44. Systems Design
45. Testing
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:
46. Competitive base salaries
47. Bonus incentives
48. Support for financial-well-being and retirement
49. Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
50. Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
51. Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
52. Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
53. Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
54. Career development and training opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.