Data Engineer - Enterprise Business Intelligence

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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. American Express 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 The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

How will you make an impact in this role?

This Data Engineer position will be part of the transformation journey supporting Merchant Marketing Data Engineering and Enterprise Business Intelligence organization, within American Express Technology.

If you love to work with data, build data pipelines using next generation technologies, create analytics data marts for generating intelligence and support self-service analytics for business users we'll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.

Here's some of what you'll be doing:

• Passionately developing and lead data driven products.

• Partner with the business and technical partners to design new customer experiences through innovative data & insight products.

• Prioritizing the product backlog with the business effectively and meeting tight deadlines when required.

• Balancing complex integrations and simple design

• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)

• Participate in code reviews and automated testing

• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation

• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments

• Automate deployments in test or production environments

• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections

• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team and organizational goals

• Influence and mentor team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

Minimum Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, other technical field, or equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years of software development experience with proven hands-on experience in Bigdata technologies and data engineering.

• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods. Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate.

• Hands-on data engineering experience in big data and familiarity with ETL, Real Time Analytics using tools and programming language

• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing.

• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges, and articulate solutions.

• Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems. Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation.

• High energy demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast to develop working software.

• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.

• Guide and mentor other team members in both technology and domain.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience in Big Data Technologies (Hive, Spark, PySpark, Java, Scala, Python etc.) and BI tools like Tableau.

• Hands-on experience in Google Cloud Date engineering stack like Big Query, Big Table etc.

• Design and implementation of REST APIs, Event Driven Architecture

• Kafka.

• Knowledge/ experience in Distributed NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Redis, HBASE).

• Good understanding of CI/CD processes leveraging Jenkins and Maven.

• Knowledge of Big Data Ingestion/Transformation processes.

• Good knowledge about the configuration management tools like GitHub.

• Understanding of various Software Delivery Lifecycle methodologies particularly SAFe Agile and tools such as Confluence, Rally / Jira.

• Understanding and hands-on experience with UNIX / Shell / Perl / Python scripting

• Database query optimization for Hive, Spark

• Knack and natural curiosity for data exploration and analysis

• Strong analytical ability

• Excellent communication skill

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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