Solutions Manager, Customer 360 American Express
New York, NY

Job Description

Solutions Manager, Customer 360

This position sits within the Customer 360, Enterprise Digital Application Experience & Platforms team, which is a part of the broader Enterprise Digital and Analytics organization.

The team is focused on enabling the best customer experience everyday through a differentiated set of products and services. A key part to accomplishing this vision, is knowing your customers (individuals or businesses) and having a holistic understanding of that customer. Customer 360 is an AXP-wide capability that provides a global enterprise view of entities (that have or had an American Express relationship with at least one product or service globally), comprehensive insights, and linkages for consumer, merchant, and commercial. This will fundamentally reshape our ecosystem and the way we engage with our customers by leveraging Amex internal/external data assets, world-class machine learning algorithms and Big Data environment.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a high-caliber individual who will be responsible for business architecture and solutioning of overall business needs of Customer 360. This is a business & technology facing role, mapping business processes to capabilities, providing end-to-end solution for the prioritized features using program increments, ensuring flexible and global system/capability design and 1-2 year capability roadmap including performance, availability and test automation. The role involves working with product managers, business managers and engineering leaders to convert the business idea/vision into a development roadmap.

The successful individual also ensures that the platform transformations meet the evolving needs of through continual innovation, global/flexible design for new use cases to fuel growth, reduce time to market and manage losses. Requires strong organizational, technical and creative problem-solving skills. Requires strong stakeholder management and ability to influence across multiple levels of leadership. Must work well in a dynamic, complex environment and under deadline pressures. Propagates architectural flows and governance to a set of scrum teams and/or SAFE trains to deploy the new business features across markets and portfolios.

Primary responsibilities include:

* Run solution management cadence with partners (Product Development, Technology, and business teams) to identify needs, opportunities, and gaps, and solve problems
* Create architectural artifacts (process flows and diagrams) for business initiatives to ensure consistency across markets and portfolios, track progress to move from legacy to future state platforms
* Consolidate and correlate disconnected business needs, processes and identify synergies to avoid redundant design and build.
* Communicate solution architecture details and roadmap to scrum teams who in-turn will translate them into user stories and deployment plan
* Demonstrate a solid understanding of the business processes, drivers for change and recommend the right solution
* Maintain the inventory and knowledge base on business processes, business capabilities and technical components along with other architectural artefacts e.g. data architecture, application architecture
* Brainstorm and negotiate effectively with various stakeholders to continuously come up with the best design and solution

Required Qualifications:

* 3-5 years in agile product development and delivery
* 2-3 years of Solution management/architecture experience
* A good balance of business acumen and technical knowledge with a proven track record of driving innovation and architecture with a customer-first mindset;
* An established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, Scaled Agile Framework and principles
* Enthusiasm and passion for building great products and services and an ability to articulate product functionality
* Ability to understand evolving compliance and regulatory requirements and environment and how to incorporate technology, infrastructure and security requirements into the product design
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners to drive collaboration and alignment;
* High degree of organization, individual initiative and personal accountability
* An ability to solve complex problems with a highly analytical approach
* Proven ability to adjust quickly to shifting priorities, multiple demands, ambiguity and rapid change.
* Information Management, Computer Science, or related degree; Master's degree preferred.
* Good understanding of payments industry & systems

Why American Express?

There's a difference between having a job and making a difference.

American Express has been making a difference in people's lives for over 160 years, backing them in moments big and small, granting access, tools, and resources to take on their biggest challenges and reap the greatest rewards.

We've also made a difference in the lives of our people, providing a culture of learning and collaboration, and helping them with what they need to succeed and thrive. We have their backs as they grow their skills, conquer new challenges, or even take time to spend with their family or community. And when they're ready to take on a new career path, we're right there with them, giving them the guidance and momentum into the best future they envision.

Because we believe that the best way to back our customers is to back our people.

The powerful backing of American Express.

Don't make a difference without it.

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