Software Engineer III - Managed File Transfer - Enterprise Architecture

Software Engineer III – Managed File Transfer – Enterprise Architecture

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company's growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex's customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

Enterprise Architecture is an organization at American Express. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

• Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.
• Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.
• Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.
• Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.

The Architecture as Code team is driving a new way of building web experiences for our customers.

We are looking for a forward-thinking Software Engineer who would be responsible for the end-to-end design and delivery for customer value capabilities in US and international markets. You will be hands on in designing the fundamental architecture that powers our web frameworks like content management, search and navigation and web authoring.

What you will be working on

We are looking for a Software Engineer to help design and build a cloud-native Managed File Transform (MFT) platform that enables secure, scalable, and highly resilient file exchange across internal systems and external partners.

In this role, you will develop distributed, event-driven file processing solutions using modern cloud architectures, containerization, and automation. You will play a key role in shaping a secure, high-performance platform that supports large-scale data movement across several applications.

We value engineers who are curious, collaborative, and passionate about building reliable, cloud-native systems that operate at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and support secure, high-performing Managed File Transfer solutions that enable reliable data exchange across applications, partners, and vendors.
• Configure, administer, and optimize MFT platforms and supporting infrastructure.
• Develop automation solutions, reusable integration components, and operational tooling using modern programming languages and APIs.
• Implement and support file transfer technologies including SFTP, FTPS, AS2, S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Connect:Direct.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, network, security, and product teams to deliver integration capabilities and solve complex challenges.
• Maintain compliance with security standards, encryption requirements, and data protection controls.
• Enhance deployment processes through CI/CD automation and engineering standards.
• Contribute to platform upgrades, performance improvements, and technology adoption initiatives.
• Produce clear documentation, implementation guides, operational procedures, and support materials.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend practical solutions that improve scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to Agile delivery activities, including planning, design reviews, code reviews, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Share knowledge, mentor team members, and help foster a culture of learning, ownership, and engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, integration engineering, middleware engineering, or platform engineering with a focus on Managed File Transfer technologies.
• Strong experience implementing microservice architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments.
• Experience implementing encryption technologies (PGP, TLS/SSL).
• Experience building and integrating RESTful APIs.
• Strong knowledge on secure file transfer protocols (SFTP, AS2, FTPS, S3, GCP).
• Experience in large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines.

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you'll experience our 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 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

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.