Vice President, Tech Operations, Mission Control

The Production Management organization requires a highly qualified leader who will lead the Mission Control team who are monitoring and reacting to system failures and events, as well as coordinating critical incident response across the Enterprise. While this is a leadership role, the selected candidate will need to be involved in a technical capacity to ensure that the firm's most critical systems receive world-class support.

• Oversees the performance monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of fundamental systems necessary for technology services, ensuring installations, software, hardware, operating systems, and configuration issues are properly addressed, monitored, and resolved
• Leads and mentors a global team of senior colleagues, fostering a culture of excellence, continuous professional growth, and knowledge sharing within the technology operations community
• Operate both vertically, in their domain, and horizontally, across the Enterprise, to share experience and drive excellence across the broader organization.
• Directs the development and implementation of technical service strategies to ensure alignment with the company's technology vision and business goals, ensuring scalability and iterative progress
• Identification and leadership of operating efficiency improvement as well as incident response and resolution time to continuously improve customer experience.
• Collaborate with partners and stakeholders to foster and drive the adoption of advanced solutions to operational activities, eg. AI Ops
• Develops and maintains technical service standards and guidelines in collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring optimal utilization of technology frameworks to achieve strategic objectives

• Experience in leading Technology Operations teams within the Financial Services and/or Payments sectors.
• Can demonstrate recent subject matter expertise in a relevant technical area.
• Significant technical experience in transaction processing and authorizations.
• Strong technical capability in Mainframe and Distributed technologies, including both Private and Public cloud solutions.
• Experience in attracting, hiring, retaining, and leading top technology delivery talent, and building high-performing teams in competitive markets
• Experience in creating and implementing robust Operational practices including Observability and Capacity Management.
• Significant experience in Major Incident response and high-pressure problem-solving situations, with Executive level communications experience.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions