Vice President, Commercial Data Platform & Sales Enablement

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.

We’re looking for a Vice President, Commercial Data Platform & Sales Enablement to lead the engineering teams supporting our commercial data lake, data governance, and data reliability efforts as well as the teams supporting key systems that empower our commercial sales colleagues. This leader will be a trusted partner for sales leadership, and a technical thought leader collaborating with the commercial data office to drive data platform strategy & execution. In this role you will

Responsibilities

• Lead a global organization of software and data engineers

• Create a culture of continuous improvement and a focus on success within your organization

• Be a trusted partner for senior commercial sales and data leaders to balance co-creating strategic direction, delivering projects and supporting efficient, forward-looking technical investment

• Drive the technical data platform and data risk management strategies

• Partner deeply cross functionally across technology and product teams to creatively problem solve and clear blockers

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering including hands-on experience

• Proven expertise in cloud technology and building big data solutions (ETL, Spark, Data Lake, etc)

• Experience creating scalable data strategies to unlock data’s value via AI and advanced analytics

• Experience leading high performing engineering organizations and growing talent

• Self-starter that can create clarity from ambiguity

• Excellent communication skills with an ability to effectively communicate up and down leadership levels

• Experience understanding distributed system architectures and driving technical strategy

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering