Data Engineer III-GL&B

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.

American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative payment products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team! You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world-class cardmember experiences. We are looking for an innovative, experienced, and talented engineering manager who will work closely with business unit and development team to develop new system capabilities as defined within the technical/ functional specifications.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for designing Data Engineering solutions on bigdata ecosystem, developing custom applications, and modifying existing applications to meet distinct and changing business requirements. Hands on coding, debugging, and documentation, as well as working closely with SRE team. Provide post implementation and ongoing support. 

Develop and design software applications, translating user needs into system architecture. Assess and validate application performance and integration of component systems and provide process flow diagrams. Test the engineering resilience of software and automation tools. 

You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers. Software Engineers who join our Loyalty Technology team will be assigned to one of several exciting teams that are developing a new, nimble, and modern loyalty platform which will support the key element of connecting with our customers where they are and how they choose to interact with American Express. 

Be part of an enthusiastic, high performing technology team developing solutions to drive engagement and loyalty within our existing cardmember base and attract new customers to the Amex brand. 

The position will also play a critical role partnering with other development teams, testing and quality, and production support, to meet implementation dates and allow smooth transition throughout the development life cycle. 

The successful candidate will be focused on building and executing against a strategy and roadmap focused on moving from monolithic, tightly coupled, batch-based legacy platforms to a loosely coupled, event-driven, microservices-based architecture to meet our long-term business goals.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Masters in computer applications or equivalent OR Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of Hadoop and Spark Architecture and its working principle.
• Deep understanding of Data warehousing concepts.
• Ability to design and develop optimized Data pipelines for batch and real time data processing. 
• Experience in data analytics and cleansing
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years’ experience on Python or Java Hands-on experience on writing and understanding complex SQL (Hive/PySpark- data frames), optimizing joins while processing huge amount of data.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience of working with Map-Reduce, Hive, Spark (core, SQL and PySpark).
• Hands on Experience on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, DataProc, Cloud Composer) 
• Hands on Experience in Airflow
• 3+ years of experience in UNIX shell scripting 
• Should have experience in analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of system applications.
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.
  

Additional Good to have requirements:

• Understanding of Distributed eco system.
• Experience in machine learning models, RAG, and NLP
• Experience in designing and building solutions using Kafka streams or queues. 
• Experience with NoSQL i.e., HBase, Cassandra, Couchbase or MongoDB
• Experience with Data Visualization tools like PowerBI, Tableau, SiSense, Looker 
• Ability to learn and apply new programming concepts. 
• Knowledge of Financial reporting ecosystem will be a plus.
• Experience in leading teams of engineers and scrum teams.

Salary Range: $78,000.00 to $124,750.00 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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