Senior Solutions Architect

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**Description**
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues.

As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
**Who are we?**
At American Express our Global Network relies increasingly on the deep expertise and experience of a core team of subject matter experts in advanced payments technology who are passionate about EMV Chip, Contactless, Mobile payments and emerging digital payment products and standards.
We value deep and broad knowledge of this domain in which we excel, to advance American Express and Industry specifications, provide solutions and consultancy to our product teams, and be great collaborators and communicators.
We're proud that a culture of respect and teamwork exists among colleagues.

We are part of a Technology team who thrive in close collaboration with our Business Product and Industry Standards teams.
**Our Team**
We are a small team of payments technical experts in a center of excellence based in the UK and US.
We have an excellent work/life balance, and flexible working practices.
International Travel is required from time-to-time when working on industry standards or on internal American Express business initiatives.
**The Challenge**
As a part of our commitments to EMVCo, the industry technical body responsible for secure and interoperable payment solutions, members of the team contribute to its work and mission and represent American Express positions and interests there.
Within Amex you’ll work closely with business product teams and others using your deep expertise in the areas of EMV Chip & Mobile payment products in particular as for POS Terminals and Chipcards to define solutions and be a key contributor to American Express Payment Product Specifications.
As well as solving stimulating daily consultancy requests that tap into your knowledge, you will partner closely with our Global and Regional Certification teams to help ensure the security and interoperability of chip and mobile products (and other emerging
payment products) on the American Express Network.
**About you?**
Coming from a technical background with business knowledge and context from your experience in the card payments industry you’ll be ready to succeed and apply your expertise gained in EMV, contact and contactless payments, mobile payments, digital and remote payments.
Your ability to combine your knowledge and passion with written communication skills to add to or author documents, such as the functionally focused specifications, implementation guides, and other documentation supportive of EMVCo or Amex standards and products will be highly valued.
You will be both able and comfortable representing American Express at external industry forums, in particular at EMVCo, and you’ll enjoy using your excellent verbal and written communications skills in doing so.
While the role does not currently involve any software development, past experience as a software developer of EMV related products (POS terminals, applications, etc.) would be a valuable asset in support of the in-depth ‘bits & bytes’ understanding of how EMV chip products and similar work.
**Qualifications**
Salary Range: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 annually bonus benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition.

Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best.

This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
+ Competitive base salaries
+ Bonus incentives
+ 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
+ Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
+ Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
+ 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
+ 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
For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .
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.

American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.
We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally.

That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture.

Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
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**Job:** Technologies
**Primary Location:** US-Arizona-Phoenix
**Other Locations:** US-Arizona-Amex - for internal use only
**Schedule** Full-time
**Req ID:** 25018984

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