Sr Software Engineer - Enterprise Architecture

Position: Sr Software Engineer I - Enterprise Architecture
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Location:

Phoenix, AZ, United States Salary: $123000 - $215250 annually + bonus + benefits

Job Function:
Engineering & Architecture

Schedule:

Full time

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American Express 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.

About Enterprise Architecture:
Enterprise Architecture is an organization within the Core Technologies unit at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company’s architecture & technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

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

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

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

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

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Engineer I to help design, build and operate the enterprise integration and event-driven platforms that connect American Express systems s is a hands-on senior engineering role, and you will own architecture solution, tooling and delivery for high-throughput, low-latency user interfaces & APIs & backend databases design & development in multi-region production environments, and you will set the technical direction that other engineers build against.

Responsibilities Design, build and manage enterprise platforms and shared technology services for messaging, event distribution and system-to-system integration used by engineering teams across the enterprise.

Design and build the operator-facing surfaces for these platforms: self-service onboarding portals, topic and schema management consoles, and flow monitoring views, owning the full stack from the UI components through the APIs that back them.

Architect high-throughput, low-latency event-driven systems using publish/subscribe, queue-based and streaming patterns, and define the topic taxonomies, message contracts and canonical schemas that govern them.

Lead platform modernization and migration work — moving producers and consumers off legacy middleware and monolithic app servers onto containerized, cloud-native microservices with phased roadmaps, parallel-run validation, reconciliation and zero-outage cutovers.

Engineer resiliency into the platform: multi-region active-active topologies, endpoint failover, dead-letter handling, duplicate detection, and failure isolation so one flow cannot degrade another.

Own the delivery pipeline end to end - CI/CD, externalized…