Staff Architect - Enterprise Architecture-25010296

Description

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. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this 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.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

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 of the organization.

About Enterprise Architecture: 

Enterprise Architecture is an organization within the Chief Technology Office at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company’s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

1.     Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.

2.     Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.

3.     Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards, and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.

4.     Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.

Responsibilities: 

Lead Data Architecture: Define, design, and implement architectural patterns and solutions to embed data security, privacy, compliance (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), and data quality controls directly into our enterprise data platforms and pipelines.

Drive Data Product Strategy & Architecture: Architect, evangelize, and guide the development of data products, transforming raw data into discoverable, usable, and high-value assets for internal and external consumption.

Architect the Enterprise Data Marketplace: Design and guide in build the foundational architecture for a centralized data marketplace, enabling seamless data discovery, secure access, and efficient data sharing across the organization.

Define Enterprise Data Standards: Establish and promote best practices, architectural patterns, and data standards for data modeling, data integration, data storage, and data processing across the enterprise.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to engineering teams, fostering a culture of architectural excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Cross-Functional Influence & Collaboration: Partner closely with engineering teams, product, legal, compliance, security, and business units to translate strategic objectives into robust data architecture solutions. Influence technical decisions and drive consensus across diverse stakeholders.

Innovation & Research: Stay abreast of emerging data technologies, industry trends, and regulatory changes, evaluating their potential impact and advocating for adoption where appropriate.

Documentation & Communication: Create clear, concise, and comprehensive architectural documentation, diagrams, and presentations for both technical and non-technical audiences.

 
Minimum Qualifications:

10+ years of progressive experience in data architecture, software engineering, or related technical roles, with at least 3 years specifically focused on architecting large-scale enterprise data solutions.

Proven experience designing, building, and operating highly scalable, resilient, and performant data architectures using modern data platforms (data lakes, data warehouses, streaming platforms).

Cloud Data Proficiency: Deep hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud provider's data services (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- AWS: S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, Kinesis, MSK, EMR.

- Azure: Data Lake Storage, Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics.

- GCP: Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub.

Demonstrated experience / Good understanding in designing and implementing data governance frameworks, data security mechanisms (e.g., access control, encryption, masking), and embedding data privacy/compliance controls into data architectures.

Good knowledge of various data modeling techniques (dimensional, relational, NoSQL) and extensive experience with complex ETL/ELT processes and tools (e.g., Apache Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, dbt).

Experience with data mesh principles or similar decentralized data architectures

Proven collaboration skills along with the ability to influence without authority

Hands on experience in the following environments is preferred: Java,Go,Vert.x,React, Envoy, gRPC, ProtoBuf, JSON, CouchBase, Cassandra, Redis,Consul, Jenkins, docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Drools, Elastic Stack,Kafka, Spark, ML

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred.

Minimum Qualifications

Salary Range: $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + 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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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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Job

Technologies

Primary Location

US-Arizona-Phoenix

Organization

A6382 - CTO Organization

Schedule

Full-timeJob Band 40Work Location Options Hybrid

Job Posting

Jul 18, 2025, 8:44:57 PM - Jul 26, 2025, 3:59:00 AM

Recruiter

Alan A Esparza

Hiring Manager

Lakshmi Sagari Isukapally

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