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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.

Team Overview:

Global Credit & Model Risk Oversight, Transaction Monitoring & GRC Capabilities (CMRC) provides independent challenge and ensures that significant Credit and Model risks are properly evaluated and monitored, and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) risks are mitigated through the transaction monitoring program. In addition, CMRC hosts the central product organization responsible for the ongoing maintenance and modernization of GRC platforms and capabilities.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The AML Data Capabilities team was established with a mission to own and govern data across products – raw data, derivations, organized views to cater for analytics and production use cases and to manage the end-to-end data quality. This team comprises of risk data experts with deep SME knowledge of risk data, systems and processes covering all aspects of customer life cycle.

Our mission is to build and support Anti-Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring data and rule needs in collaboration with Strategy and technology partners with focus on our core tenets of Timeliness, Quality and process efficiency.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and Maintain Organized Data Layers to cater for both Production use cases and Analytics for Transaction Monitoring of Anti-Money Laundering rules.

• Manage end to end Big Data Integration processes for building key variables from disparate source systems with 100% accuracy and 100% on time delivery

• Partner closely with Strategy and Modeling teams in building incremental intelligence, with strong emphasis on maintaining globalization and standardization of attribute calculations across portfolios.

• Partner with Tech teams in designing and building next generation data quality controls.

• Drive automation initiatives within existing processes and fully optimize delivery effort and processing time

• Effectively manage relationship with stakeholders across multiple geographies

• Contribute into evaluating and/or developing right tools, common components, and capabilities

• Follow industry best agile practices to deliver on key priorities

• Implementation of defined rules on Lucy platform in order to identify the AML alerts.

• Ensuring process and actions are logged and support regulatory reporting, documenting the analysis and the rule build in form of qualitative document for relevant stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• Academic Background: Bachelor’s degree with up to 2 year of relevant work experience

• Strong Hive, SQL skills, knowledge of Big data and related technologies

• Hands on experience on Hadoop & Shell Scripting is a plus

• Understanding of Data Architecture & Data Engineering concepts

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to cater to versatile technical and non-technical audience

• Willingness to Collaborate with Cross-Functional teams to drive validation and project execution

• Good to have skills - Python / Py-Spark

• Excellent Analytical & critical thinking with attention to detail

• Excellent planning and organizations skills including ability to manage inter-dependencies and execute under stringent deadlines

• Exceptional drive and commitment; ability to work and thrive in in fast changing, results driven environment; and proven ability in handling competing priorities

Behavioral Skills/Capabilities: Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

Set the Agenda:

• Ability to apply thought leadership and come up with ideas

• Take complete perspective into picture while designing solutions

• Use market best practices to design solutions

Bring Others with You:

• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders and other scrum team to deliver on promise

• Learn from peers and leaders

• Coach and help peers

Do It the Right Way:

• Communicate Effectively

• Be candid and clear in communications

• Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively

• Live the company culture and values

Qualifications

Salary Range: $60,000.00 to $110,000.00 annually bonus 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: Product

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25013009