Principal Engineer

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The Enterprise CRM Solutions Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities that support  and enable customer and sales experiences throughout the enterprise. We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Engineer with an impactful strategic and technology mind-set to drive the solution management framework for the organization, driving efficient CRM solutions for technology. We wish to drive engagement and loyalty within our existing cardmember base and attract new customers to the AMEX brand. This pivotal role will leverage his or her expertise in software development and system architecture to drive the design, solution and implementation, of innovative CRM solutions and capabilities that enhance customer engagement and experiences while optimizing business processes. This role will collaborate with product and technology teams to streamline efficient, innovative solutions against business demand. The role will collaborate closely with business partners, Engineers, Architects and Leadership, to communicate and manage stakeholders as well as ensure completeness and efficiency of business demand.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Align and drive engineering solutions with architecture and engineering counterparts across both Customer Domain and Sales Domain
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, workable solutions that demonstrate significant creativity and high discernment
• Understand and use system interdependencies while minimizing their limitations
• Expertise in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices
• Use internal and industry design patterns to guide design decisions 
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing deep knowledge and experience 
• Work effectively with product development and engineering teams across the enterprise
• Design new techniques, methodologies, and concepts for pursuing broad crosscutting initiatives
• Liaison with ICSRT Head Engineer and Enterprise Architecture for optimal solutions

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of active architecture, design, engineering, and implementation experience in a complex enterprise cloud environment.
• Demonstrated recent hands-on experience in the design, solutioning, engineering, and\or successful implementation of enterprise-grade software products.
• Opinionated on developer experience and developer productivity with proven experience in elevating the same at scale.
• Demonstrated recent hands-on engineering experience with core technologies such as, Java, JavaScript, Vert.X, Kafka, Elastic, Couchbase, and/or Postgres and restful, event driven, and microservices technologies for large scale environments.
• Ability to roll up sleeves and be hands on; while at the same time be able to be strategic and high level. Proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels within an organization, and in a variety of contexts.
• Recent experience with agile development methodologies.
• Recent hand-on experience with modern software engineering concepts (e.g. CI/CD, DevOps, containers, microservices, etc.).
• Subject matter expertise in one or more software engineering specialties with broad exposure to relevant technology domains.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cloud native platforms and solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize the performance of enterprise software systems and/or components.
• Be a compelling storyteller with experience communicating complex technical concepts and ideas to engineers and non-engineers alike.
• Experience with Customer domain, CRMs , Sales domain preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.