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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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The VP of Database Products will lead the Engineering, Infrastructure, and Operations of all Database Management Systems for the enterprise. The successful candidate will lead a 200 people global organization managing a hyper-scale database environment for the enterprise. The organization encompasses multiple directors along with a global team that engineers, designs and supports multiple on-prem and cloud database platforms.

Key responsibilities include:

Evaluation and selection of DBMS products, engineering and automation leadership, evaluation and selection of infrastructure, leadership of design and testing, and 24x7 operational support of the environment. Possess a good understanding of public and private cloud capabilities. Maintain close partnership with Architecture, Security, Data, Application Engineering, and Executive Leadership to deliver best-in-class database products aligned with long-term business strategy. Given the scale of the setup, the leader should have experience: leading a large global team, managing large commercial contracts, vendor engagement, and effectively managing risk while solving for business requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• 10 years of progressive experience in database engineering, infrastructure, or data platforms.

• Demonstrated success leading cloud migrations and modernization initiatives.

• Experience patching, monitoring, and supporting critical systems at scale.

• Strong financial acumen and ability to balance refresh, staffing, support, software, and budget priorities.

• Ability to make decisions and take action while under pressure.

• Troubleshooting expertise and knowledge of the AMEX infrastructure eco-system.

• Demonstrated ability to evolve skills and drive success in multiple technical domains.

• Strong people leader that is able to bring teams together to deliver complex solutions.

• Creative thinker having the passion to identify opportunities, develop solutions, while having the courage and drive to act.

• Strong partnership skills as this role will be highly dependent on Storage, Compute, Cloud, NGDM, and Security team for success.

• Global people leadership experience of large teams.

• Able to lead peers and teams through change.

• Financial Services experience preferred.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $219,000.00 to $338,250.00 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: Executive

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 26004458