Senior Technical Program Manager

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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.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skill fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

Let’s share success.

Global Infrastructure Product Services aims to establish and reinforce a culture of effective metrics, data-driven business processes, architecture simplification, and cost transparency.

A successful Technical Program Manager knows that delivering on that promise takes foresight, planning and agility. Our Technical Program Managers have the passion and energy to work in a startup-like, entrepreneurial, and fast paced environment, and they have the willingness, energy and technical ability to roll up their sleeves and work directly with the solutions. The ideal candidate for this role has the maturity, confidence, and experience to manage and collaborate with a multitude of partners, and the ability to influence and communicate across multiple stakeholders and levels of leadership, speaking at the appropriate level of detail to audiences ranging from business executives to technology delivery teams.

Let’s build on what you know.

If you have proficiency and experience with developing program strategies while owning and leading multiple, simultaneous engagements with key stakeholders, you'll find a fit with our Application Landscape Management team responsible for developing application ecosystem profiles and “connective tissue” between Systems of Record to provide the correct inputs for data-driven assessments of workload placement benefits, risks, and costs. Here’s just some of what you’ll do\:

• Develop strong customer relationships that enable Technology to become a trusted advisor to our stakeholders and business partners
• Gather functional and business requirements from stakeholders and translate into a reporting, analysis and/or data solution design according to client needs and scope
• Ensure ongoing identification and completion of deliverables, managing schedules, meeting milestones, and ensuring technical success
• Ensure accurate reflection of project/program budgets, forecasts and actuals with related tools
• Monitor and communicate the progress of solution delivery and ensure timely and effective communication of its status in terms of cost, forecast, schedule and assessment of risks/issues
• Negotiate and influence cross-functional teams to ensure appropriate resourcing levels are engaged and maintained throughout the execution of the plan
• Anticipate delivery risks and issues and ensure that appropriate mitigation planning is in place
• Ensure effective usage of change control procedures and processes to retain control of scope, schedule and cost
• Steer technical program conversations (e.g., relating to architectural approach and system design) and articulates solutions; co-develops and documents solution
• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to build implementation roadmaps
• Provide and consolidate inputs for leadership updates; facilitate meetings with leadership on delivery status and key decisions

Are you up for the challenge? Here’s what you should have\:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field required; advanced degree and/or valid industry certifications preferred
• Extensive experience in a team leadership role, directly interfacing with executive customers and leading team members in concurrent workstreams to deliver specific outputs of value to customers
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and consultative problem-solving skills, with a strong business and financial aptitude
• Experience with ServiceNow and other IT Asset Management tools
• Demonstrable business report creation experience utilizing various reporting tools (e.g.\: MS SQL Reporting Services, Tableau, Informatica, Cognos, Microstrategy, PowerBI, etc.)
• Strong analytical skills with validated ability to understand and document business data requirements
• Operational knowledge of IT infrastructure domains including data centers, network / communications, server utilization, virtual environments, storage, public and private cloud usage and billing, application development and maintenance
• Technical application implementation experience especially related to knowledge and application of relational database concepts, working with large data sets and quickly detecting / resolving data-related issues, and leading iterative technical design activities.
• Customer-focused attitude - a real customer advocate that can translate customer needs and strategies into the reporting, analytics, data and stakeholder management necessary to drive success
• Ability to lead customer training, design and knowledge transfer sessions.
• Strong skills in data analysis/manipulation