Data Engineer III

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.

Data Engineer leads the design and optimization of data architectures and pipelines, collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business needs and enterprise standards, fosters innovation and best practices in data infrastructure, and executes Big Data management strategies through partitioning and indexing solutions.

Advances the design and documentation of data architectures, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and alignment with business requirements

Develops, optimizes, and supports intricate data pipelines and database designs to meet advanced performance, scalability, and security needs

Collaborates with delivery architects, engineers, and business teams to design optimal data tier solutions and support Agile development practices

Ensures adherence to enterprise standards, guidelines, and policies, documenting processing requirements to maintain optimal data operations

Identifies and adopts innovative technologies to enhance data infrastructure, maintaining detailed information about stored data and following data placement procedures

Fosters a collaborative environment and contributes to the development of best practices and consistent development practices

Executes Big Data management strategies by developing and optimizing partioning and indexing solutions

Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and/or comparable experience; advanced degree preferred

Knowledge of Big Data / NoSQL design and development with variety of data stores (document, column family, graph, etc.)

Knowledge of database management system products and ecosystem - e.g., storage formats, access algorithms, data management processes, administration, data maintenance, replication, high availability, encryption, etc

Knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational & non-relational databases

Data engineering and development experience or a related job

Experience in SQL and Python (or any other programming language like Java)

Experience in design and development across one or more database management systems (e.g., HBase, Hive, GCP tools, NoSQL, BigTable, BigQuery, Spanner, IMS, DB2 zOS, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Netezza (PDA/DB2AA) as appropriate

Experience in NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra, and Redis)

Experience in data modeling tools (e.g., ErStudio, ErWin)

Experience in performance tuning in the Big Data space

Experience in distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and application development

Experience in database development and support of online transaction processing and/or online analytical processing systems

Experience in software delivery methodology (Agile, Scrum, Agile XP, Test-Driven Development, Waterfall, etc.)

Experience in infrastructure design for performance (e.g., network-attached or local-attached storage integration - such as Nutanix)

Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.

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. 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.