Senior Engineering Manager - Business Travel Account (BTA)

☞ American Express

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Update day: 07-05-2024

Location: Burgess Hill South East

Category: High Technology Mechanical / Technical Electrical / Electronics IT - Software

Industry: Financial Services

Position: Mid-Senior level

Job type: Full-time

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Don’t just work for a market leading global company. Help grow one.

Are you a Senior Engineer looking for your next career step? Are you a proven people leader who wants to exhibit technical skills? Then we have just the job for you!

Business Travel Account (BTA) is a key product in AXP’s crown, responsible for the reconciliation and data processing of billions of dollars’ worth of transactions per year. One of the best performing products as we continue to make our Covid recovery, BTA is so much more than just travel, as we continue to diversify our reach to other sectors, and all driven on a platform undergoing a massive transformation programme.

As a Senior Engineering Manager for Business Travel Account (BTA), you will be responsible for actively providing people-leadership, deep technical knowledge and contribute to the engineering team that will design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug work efforts for our suite of amazing customer-facing applications, all of which are undergoing transformation efforts at present to migrate their technology stack to cloud-based microservice architecture

Responsibilities – Engineering
  • Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications
  • Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
  • Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
  • Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective
  • Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
  • Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives in order to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations
  • Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices


Responsibilities – Leadership
  • People Leader to 8+ B30 colleagues and possibly contractors as well, dotted line leadership to B35 colleagues in scrum team(s)
  • Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
  • Drives the team’s technical improvements and roadmap
  • Takes accountability for the technical maturity of the team
  • 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
  • Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
  • Working with Engineering Director to hire top talent for the team

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
  • University Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
  • Significant active engineering experience
  • Proven leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience desirable
  • Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an Agile product environment
  • Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
  • Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
  • Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)
  • Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing environment.
  • Adaptable to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
  • Engaged with the open source community, demonstrated public speaking, etc


Why American Express?

There’s a difference between having a job and making a difference.

Amex have 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.

To complete your application please click on the links below. However, if you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Recruitment Team on recruitment.support.uk@aexp.com.
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Deadline: 21-06-2024

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