Director Technical Architecture American Express New York City

Job Description
Responsibilities
Serves as an architectural steward for the infrastructure and/or application portfolio, providing technical direction and consulting expertise to support business strategies and deliver value. This includes, but is not limited to, building and enhancing AET systems to support the portfolio in terms of robustness, scalability, availability and efficiency.
Performs as a high-level technical, subject matter expert for the portfolio supported (which may cover multiple platforms/applications).

Has responsibility for the technical direction of a large number of platforms/applications within the supported portfolio that may span a broad range of systems and enterprise-wide complex components.
Requires in-depth knowledge of multiple business and technical environments, covering a wide range of business functions and capabilities. Works with senior business leaders to understand and document the business principles, goals and strategic drivers of the organization.
Serves as an expert resource to business development teams and reports into the senior architecture leaders of the company for the line-of-business supported.
Partners with the Technology Strategy & Operations organization in determining an enterprise architectural framework.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Required Skills/Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience).
Relevant professional work experience in programming, support, design and requirements analysis.
Deep understanding of architectural concepts (data, technical and solution), issues and trends.
Experience in DevOps environment , leading DevOps team of 6+ engineers,SaaS Platform and SaaS applications,IaaS , cloud architecture. (ie RedHat OpenShift, Ansible, git, python, CA Unified Infrastructure Manager, VMware)

Preferred Additional
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