Manager - Technical Project Management

As a member of Team Amex at American Express, you will be part of a culture built on a long history of innovation, shared values, and Leadership Behaviors. You will experience comprehensive support for your well-being and numerous opportunities for skill development, leadership growth, and career advancement. Your voice and ideas will be valued, your work will have a significant impact, and together, we will shape the future of American Express. American Express is currently making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to support its global growth agenda. The Card Network platform is a distributed, near real-time, low latency system that operates 24x7, 365 days a year, processing transactions worldwide. The Global Card Network Platform at American Express handles all customer card transactions. As an Agile Champion for the Global Network technology team, you will play a crucial role in translating business objectives into an execution strategy. Your responsibilities will include resolving and tracking program risks, dependencies, and impediments to project delivery. You will need strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with various stakeholders. In this role, you will lead cross-functional project and program teams, working closely with internal customers to interpret project objectives into solutions. Collaboration with Product, Engineers, Architects, Leadership, and other key partners will be essential to ensure the completeness and efficiency of solutions. Emphasizing value-based outcomes using Agile practices and processes, you will also need to understand the products and functionality supporting Technology platforms. Your responsibilities will include: - Owning multiple delivery plans across technology remediation, modernization, and innovation - Facilitating and leading technical conversations and documenting solutions - Driving team/release level processes demonstrating servant leadership - Executing Program Increment (PI) objectives to support the strategy and vision - Ensuring value is achieved by the team on behalf of end users - Supporting product owners by ensuring backlog refinement and readiness - Collaborating with other Technical Project Managers to coordinate cross-team dependencies - Tracking iteration progress and removing obstacles to ensure commitments are met - Driving Agile team objectives and providing visibility into gaps, issues, risks, and opportunities Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in a technology-related subject area or equivalent experience - 8+ years of technical project management experience - Experience leading Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams - Excellent stakeholder management skills - Strong oral and written communication skills - Experience using Rally delivery management platform - Deep understanding of Agile at Scale or iterative development processes - Experience managing multiple initiatives, priorities, and teams American Express provides benefits that support your holistic well-being, including competitive salaries, bonus incentives, financial well-being support, comprehensive medical benefits, flexible working arrangements, paid parental leave policies, access to wellness centers, counseling support, and career development opportunities. Please note that an offer of employment with American Express is subject to the successful completion of a background verification check.,