Software Engineer III - Financial Crimes Technology

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Location:

Charlotte, NC, United States Salary: $103750 - $174750 annually + bonus + benefits

Job Function:
Engineering & Architecture

Schedule:

Full time

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American Express Description 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 Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

The Financial Crime and Risk Management (FCRM) team within Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) at American Express is building the next generation of AI-enabled, world-class capabilities to support second-line risk and compliance functions and financial crime investigation teams.

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer III with hands-on experience in NICE Actimize Suspicious Activity Monitoring (SAM) to help develop, enhance, and support our AML transaction monitoring platform. This role will contribute to delivering scalable, reliable, and high-performance solutions supporting Anti-Money Laundering (AML) monitoring and regulatory compliance initiatives across the company.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical skills in Actimize SAM development, SQL, data integration, and application troubleshooting, along with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, product, and compliance teams. This position offers opportunities to contribute to platform modernization, automation, and the continued evolution of our enterprise AML transaction monitoring capabilities.

Responsibilities Design, develop, configure, test, deploy, and support NICE Actimize SAM solutions to meet AML transaction monitoring and business requirements.

Develop, enhance, and maintain Actimize SAM detection scenarios, monitoring rules, thresholds, and configurations.

Work with Actimize SAM components, including Actimize Intelligence Server (AIS), data processing workflows, and supporting application infrastructure.

Develop and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and processing pipelines supporting transaction monitoring within the Actimize SAM platform.

Collaborate with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Engineering teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Participate as a core member of an Agile engineering team, contributing to user story analysis, technical design, development, testing, and deployment activities.

Develop and maintain integrations between Actimize SAM and enterprise data sources, databases, and downstream systems.

Perform SQL development, query optimization, and application troubleshooting to improve SAM processing efficiency and reliability.

Support Actimize SAM platform enhancements, upgrades, and maintenance activities.

Contribute to automation of application deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational support processes.

Troubleshoot and resolve application issues related to scenario execution, transaction processing, data quality, and batch processing.

Collaborate with senior engineers and architects to implement scalable, secure, and reliable technical solutions.

Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge-sharing activities to promote engineering best practices.

Develop and maintain technical documentation, including design specifications, processing flows, and operational procedures.

Contribute to improving platform reliability, performance, observability, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
4+ years of experience in software engineering or enterprise application development, including hands-on experience with NICE Actimize SAM (Suspicious Activity Monitoring).Practical…