Job Description

Job Description
You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we're supporting our customers' financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what's possible - and we're proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.

The Global Risk Onboarding and Underwriting team (GROW) is responsible for defining and driving the transformation and modernization of risk management capabilities across risk technology platforms. Our teams have technical and communication skills that enable them to work with cross-functional teams in various domains across the company including Risk Strategy, Servicing, Product Management, Decision Sciences and Technology. We develop and design logic used in risk management automation that is durable, scalable, easy to deploy and transparent to business strategy partners in real-time and batch environments.

This team has delivered industry-leading results year after year while enabling profitable growth and delivering a best-in-class customer experience.

Role & Responsibilities:

Creates business logic and the associated journeys used in risk capabilities. This role is accountable for understanding and translating business requirements into code. Adheres to design and quality guidelines as defined by BLM and serves as a content expert in their respective use-cases and journey

Here's just some of what you'll do in this role:

* Works in a scrum team environment with Scrum Master, Product Owner and peers to develop and deploy logic
* Reports into daily stand-ups noting progress and/or impediments
* Correlates requirements to the impact of logic to cardmembers and performs unit and end-to-end testing
* Solicits and reviews test acceptance criteria and generates UAT data
* Participates and contributes in scrum demo, grooming, and retrospectives
* Attends program increment (PI) planning, collaborates on story pointing and accepts story assignments

Minimum Qualifications

Are you ready for the challenge?

Minimum qualifications:

* Demonstrated ability digest requirements and translate to executable/logical blocks of programming/language
* Strong analytical, diagnostic and solution skills with the ability to clearly articulate the end product
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills
* Proficient in any data query/tools such as SQL, HQL/Hive, SAS
* Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or business/financial discipline

Preferred qualifications:

* Experience working in a technical delivery team or coursework/internship as a data developer, analyst or scientist
* Experience in a cross-functional and global environment
* Proficient in Spark, Python, Java, Java Script, C++
* working knowledge of business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) and/or workflow orchestrators such as Pega and JBPM
* Experience working in Agile SAFe environments

Additional Details:

* Location: 18850 N 56th St, Phoenix, AZ 85050
* Visa Sponsorship: Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for this position.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.