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With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success. Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
Our industry is rapidly evolving, and we need courageous, quick thinkers who can shape the strategic decisions that lead our business forward. Whether it's negotiating with some of our largest global partners or creating next year's financial plan, you can influence both our day-to-day P&L and the future direction of the company. As part of the team, you can have the opportunity to learn and use the latest data tools and technologies and explore a range of roles to grow your career. Find your place in finance on #TeamAmex.
How will you make an impact in this role?
This role is for a Product Owner in the US Regulatory Reporting automation program. This individual will be responsible to deliver the end-to-end automation of our regulatory reporting platform. This individual will coordinate with several groups within American Express during the course of designing, implementing, and migrating the implemented solution into production. The individual selected will partner closely with the Data Sourcing Architects and Process Owners to drive the priorities of the technology scrum team and ensure that the software features developed aligns with original requirements provided. Also, the individual would need to monitor project progress, solve issues that arise and write technical features and user stories.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
•Participate in daily meetings and drive prioritization within scrum teams or pods
•Elicit and document technical business requirements via the creation of features and user stories
•Work with complex cross functional teams: Engineers, Architects, governance & business partners
•Develop understanding of Oracle infrastructure and existing processes and datasets to understand and support Point of Arrival (POA) process design
•Closely collaborate with users to understand the pain points, requirements, feedback and provide them with timely resolutions
•Understand business requirements, product gaps/requirement gaps and drive feature choices
•Design and build ongoing data process controls by collaborating with Technology and Data Governance as needed
•Manage program blocking issues, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical or operational constraints
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years experience in the US Federal Reserve/financial US regulatory reporting, banking/financial services, and/or Controllership.
•Experience eliciting and documenting technical business requirements via the creation of features and user stories
•Strong understanding of relational database concepts and experience working in a big data environment (Hadoop / Cornerstone) preferred
•IT Data management experience
•Previous work experience in various IT disciplines such as Infrastructure, software development, data management or data analytics
•Exhibits organizational skills with the ability to meet/exceed critical deadlines and manage multiple deliverables simultaneously.
•A self-starter, proactive team player with a passion to consistently deliver high quality service and exceed customers' expectations.
•Strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to create impactful relationships with key stakeholders
•Excellent Communication Skills; Verbal, Written.
•Excellent relationship building, presentation and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
•Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework, have an Agile mindset, and can embrace new opportunities and adapt easily to change
•SaFe Agile certified is a plus
•Project Management Professional (PMP) certified is a plus
•SQL and data analysis experience
•Testing management and execution experience is a plus
•Foundational data architecture principles and data management experience
•Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) is a plus
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
Career development and training opportunities
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.