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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. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this 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.

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.

Who we are:

The Finance Data Engineering group at American Express is entering into a new phase of technology transformation driven by opportunities to simplify processes, deepen business intelligence, analytics and reporting, and raise operational efficiency. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, with hands on experience and strategic thinking, in areas of data management and analytics, cloud computing, and modern software engineering, join our leadership team to be part of our transformation journey.

What we’re looking for:

As a Senior Engineer, you will deliver technical solutions passionate about Finance’s cloud adoption strategy using innovative technologies and industry standard processes to implement cloud platform. You should have experience in crafting enterprise-scale technical product requirements and delivering public cloud services, with a strong preference for Google Cloud, partnering with multiple tech and product teams, exposure to finance-oriented business processes, and ability to bring operational efficiency on deliveries. Knowledge in technologies such as GCP, Big data, SQL, NoSQL etc. Be part of a fast-paced Agile team, design, develop, test, troubleshoot & optimize solutions created to simplify access to the Amex's Big Data Platform.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Over 12 years of experience in application development using Java and related technologies.

• More than 5 years of experience in creating enterprise-scale technical product requirements and delivering public cloud services, with a strong preference for Google Cloud.

• Proficient in application development across multiple programming languages (Java, .NET, Go, Python, etc.) and skilled in driving developer requirements for cloud product services.

• Sufficient knowledge of Linux to assist with infrastructure maintenance.

• Extensive practical experience in resolving performance bottlenecks.

• Extensive hands-on experience in application migration and cloud infrastructure, particularly with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Expertise in designing, developing, and optimizing large-scale data pipelines for processing, transformation, and analysis using GCP technologies.

• Strong Object-Oriented Programming skills with a solid understanding of design patterns.

• Knowledgeable in integrating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools with cloud services.

• Experienced in distributed (multi-tiered) systems, relational database design, development, troubleshooting, and automated testing.

• Comprehensive understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including Compute, Storage, and Networking.

• Skilled in analyzing complex data engineering challenges, proposing effective solutions, and implementing them efficiently.

• Capable of leading reviews of individual or team contributions.

• Focused on delivering prioritized or assigned features during ongoing sprints.

• Effective communicator, collaborating with business and development teams to support changes and implementations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications in cloud platform (GCP Professional Data Engineer) is a plus.

• Expertise with GCP Big Query, Query Optimization strategies, and parsing.

• RESTful API development experience.

• Proven experience in SQL and familiarity with relational database technologies such as Yellowbrick, Oracle, MS SQL, SingleStore (MemSQL), DB2, PostgreSQL.

• Lead as an active member of an agile team through consistent administration and development practices (tools, components, and documentation).

• Strong analytical and problem-solving, coupled with a continuous improvement mindset.

• Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex issues in simple terms to a diverse audience.

• Lead team members in the completion of assigned tasks.

• Knowledge of real time framework and processing.

• Lead training sessions and create comprehensive documentation to empower end users to leverage the Business Intelligence capabilities effectively.

• Ability to in simple scripting commands using programming languages such as Shell or Python.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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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Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25009860