Engineer - Java / Python - Enterprise Data Management Engineering

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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?

• Taking your place as a core member of an agile team driving the latest development practices.

• Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation.

• Finding Opportunities for adopting new technologies.

• Leading a team of engineers that delivers knowledge management solutions to businesses worldwide.

If you have a strong will to learn and educate and are motivated by the opportunity to help grow our team and be a part of an industry-leading technology and innovation organization, then look no further!

This is an opportunity to lead the Technology Enterprise Data Management (the technical implementation of data governance) while heavily influencing a series of Enterprise Technology capabilities . Enterprise Data Management

• Data Privacy technology is a part series of Enterprise Technology capabilities (e.g. AI/ML, Big Data, Cloud, Real-Time Event Processing & Analytics, etc.) to support the end-to-end development and execution of Amex's data management strategy, and to drive engineering excellence. Team will be driving the Data Privacy capabilities related to 3rd party data sharing and GDPR standards like ROPA, DSAR and working closely with EDDS and Privacy CoE teams to build technology solutions to ensure American Express stays compliant as global privacy regulations evolve.

Responsibilities

• Be a very skilled engineer with experience across programing languages, data integration technologies and data management pipelines.

• Partner with business, product, engineering, and data science teams to unlock the power of using data across Amex by translating business requirements/problems to solutions, products, or services.

• Partner Enterprise Tech Data Strategy & Architecture team to develop and implement software that meets the technology and business' needs including creating a highly scalable data management pipelines comprising of operational and product data to build a Data fabric foundation for the company.

• Engineer complex solutions and ensure that they are in alignment with the data architecture principles, standards, strategies, and target states.

• Adopting industry leading technologies to support best-in-class business capabilities for high quality computing and data storage solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related STEM fields. Advanced degree preferred.

• 4+ years full lifecycle product development and engineering leadership in highly available, highly scalable, high throughput systems

• Experience in building and delivering sophisticated platforms that use various technologies (e.g. Python, JAVA/J2EE/Web Technologies, APIs/Web-Services) and are able to scale optimally.

• Good understanding of cluster and parallel architecture as well as high-scale or distributed RDBMS and/or knowledge on NoSQL platforms (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, DynamoDB, Neo4J, MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, etc.).

• Hands-on experience with industry leading data management tools that support the data lifecycle, and capable of setting and driving long term data architecture roadmaps in alignment with corporate strategic objectives.

• Experience with any of the Data Management tools (or similar tools): Collibra, Dataguise, Manta, Immuta

• Experience with following message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable 'big data' tools and technologies is a plus: Amazon Kinesis / GCP PubSub, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Hadoop

• Experience in development and operation on public Cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus.

• Strong team leadership and talent development attitude

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

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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