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As a Senior Engineer in the American Express Cloud Solutions Engineering team, you will be part of Cloud migration and migration tool development projects whilst playing a key role in the enablement of solutions that power cloud native application patterns across American Express Technologies. You will partner closely with applications teams across the company to understand business critical, customer facing capabilities and provide first class cloud solutions that seek to tackle these challenges in a scalable, reusable manner.
Desired Experience:
Responsibilities:
Exposure to application discovery and dependency mapping as part of app migration and rationalisation activities and tooling
Help drive the next generation hybrid cloud migration strategy and execution
Contribute to best-in-class developer experience on the cloud platforms
Understand the current application infrastructure and suggest changes to it.
Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application migration and maintenance.
Collaborate with various stakeholders such as platform, security, network, database, operations and application to understand the risks, mitigation plans, milestones to align with Cloud projects.
As a part of core team member of cloud migrations, should contribute in application selection for the next waves of migration
Collaborate with the technology vendors, cloud partners to help build/implement versatile innovative solutions to secure workloads in public cloud environments
Lead design and development ownership on migration tool to migrate applications from private to public cloud
Lead and mentor teams of engineers through ongoing development efforts
Collaborate and liaise with stakeholders across different locations whose inputs are needed for the migration tool development
Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to support both existing needs and predicting future challenges
Work closely with product managers, platform, and application engineers to implement versatile solutions to exciting, large-scale problems
Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking
Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your work flow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
Mentor and guide junior team members to success within the team
Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, engage in fun and outcome-oriented culture, and always be ready to try new concepts without fear of failure.
Minimum Qualifications
8+ years of software development experience in a professional environment
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred