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Director, Software Engineering - Financial Crimes

New York, NY, United States

Phoenix, AZ, United States

Charlotte, NC, United States

(Hybrid)

Job 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.

We are looking for an Engineering Director specializing in building scalable enterprise platforms which elevate risk management. The successful candidate will join the Financial Crimes Compliance Technology team within the Global Risk & Compliance Technology (GRCT) organization. The GRCT team crafts, develops, and supports critical components and platforms for new products being launched to support and improve our industry-leading credit and fraud risk practices and deliver on our platform vision. You will own the workload and priority of the Engineering teams as well as relationships with product owners, business teams, and third-party product vendors.

You are a creative, results focused engineering leader with expertise and interest in building scalable, extensible platforms which leverage data spanning the entire company. You build, develop and inspire engineering teams that build resilient, innovative and efficient solutions which are propelled by shared frameworks and platforms Beyond engineering focused talents, you enjoy improving cross team cohesion, federated decision making, and mentoring for precise communication and agreement.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering leadership to the team for developing features for Financial Crimes, Global Sanctions, and Anti-Bribery and Corruption platforms

• Improve engineering practices, including driving resilience, predictability, and end efficiency through automation

• Partner with product teams to envision and deliver solutions which transform Financial Crimes Compliance using technology

• Build, develop and lead globally distributed teams

• Integrate platforms into the American Express technology ecosystem

• Design modern, reusable, scalable solution architecture

• Ensure engineering teams are well-managed, secure and compliant

• Collaborate with business, product, and technology partners to solution complex technology and functional needs

• Influence internal product roadmaps to optimize engineering delivery

• Mentor, Coach, and Inspire engineers.

• Develop and apply metrics and processes to ensure continuous team improvement, reliable execution, and effective operations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, or a related field - advanced degree preferred.

• 10+ years of technology leadership in a highly regulated environment.

• 5+ years building technology solutions for risk management related domains and/or law enforcement/intelligence domains

• 7+ years leading teams engineering teams building Java based solutions

• 5+ years delivering solution on Private and/or Public Cloud infrastructure

• Financial Crimes Compliance (Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption) experience at a large Financial Services provider

• Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services

• Experience leading engineering teams for large, transformational programs

• Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values (https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/who-we-are/) 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 our 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.

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 out Colleague Benefits Site (https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/colleagues/benefits) .

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 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 Info

• Job Identification 26006208

• Job Category Technology

• Posting Date 04/24/2026, 04:00 PM

• Apply Before 05/08/2026, 04:00 AM

• Degree Level Bachelor's Degree

• Job Schedule Full time

• Job Shift Day

• Locations AMEX World Financial Center, New York, NY, 10285, US18850 N 56th Street Building 1, Phoenix, AZ, 85054, US600 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC, 28202, US(Hybrid)

• Salary Range $144,250.00 to $256,250.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits

• Career Area Technology