Engineer II

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

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 skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex

How will you make an impact in this role?

The successful candidate for this role will be responsible for developing and implementing cutting-edge scalable intelligent solutions.  You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy highly scalable and fault tolerant services, applications and models that drive innovation and enhance efficiency in customer servicing space. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Engineer with expertise in Java, Python and Big data/RDBMS/NoSQL to join our team. 

Responsibilities:

·Be versatile and be able to collaborate with business stakeholders, product teams and cross functional technology groups to drive continuous delivery

·Data Process Design and Coding: Design, code, and document data processes for broad-scale data access.

·Maintain Data Integrity: Develop validation and monitoring processes for data compilations.

·Efficient Data Source Development: Collaborate with teams to design resilient data sources for business needs.

·Data Integration into Products: Incorporate data sources into user-facing features.

·Cloud Technology Utilization: Leverage cloud platforms for data engineering solutions.

·Utilize Big Data Technologies: Employ technologies like PySpark and Spark, Scala, Hive, SQL for data processing.

·API Design and Management: Develop and maintain APIs for data access and manipulation.

·ETL and Data Pipeline Development: Proficient in ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, tools, and developing data pipelines.

·CI/CD Implementation: Implement and manage Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes.

·Data Center Process Optimization: Optimize data processes across data centers.

·Data Governance Collaboration: Work with governance teams on data definition and mapping issues.

·Banking Data Expertise: Utilize knowledge of banking data for relevant data engineering tasks.

·Reporting Tools Expertise: Develop reports using various reporting tools.

·Production Support Coordination: Coordinate and support data engineering solutions in a production environment.

·Familiarity with Kafka: Experience with Kafka for real-time data processing and streaming.

·Apply Development Best Practices: Implement best practices in code review and change management, including proficient use of GIT for version control.

·in Agile Environments: Experience with Agile methodologies and practices.

·Problem-Solving and Troubleshooting: Strong analytical skills to solve problems and troubleshoot issues.
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Qualifications & Skills:

·Degree in Computer Science with 5+ years of experience in Big Data Platform Proficiency: Skilled in working with Big Data platforms and Big Data lakes.

·Proficient in SQL and Unix Shell Scripting: Skilled in SQL and Unix shell scripting.

·Experience in developing, hosting solutions on Google Cloud Platform- Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery and Vertex AI and leveraging GCP services for specific feature implementations