Job Description
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared 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.
Roles & Responsibilities: -
- Accountable for team completing work you're leading and work you are doing as agreed upon.
- Accountable to team for delivery of quality work
- Serving as a core member of an agile team that leads user story analysis and elaboration, designs and develops software applications.
- Identifying exciting technology modernization opportunities for adopting new open source-based technology tools & products to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges.
- Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement.
- Working with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues.
- Experience in working directly with business customers.
- Defining and implementing data integration architecture. Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team.
- Quickly generate and updating proof of concepts for testing and team feedback
- Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices.
- Expertise in software development, such coding assignments.
- Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation).
- Writing code and unit tests, automation, and conducting code reviews and automate 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 goals.
- Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking ability.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent is required with hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing.
- Up to 5+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:
- Profound Knowledgebase with Java, Spring, Spring-Boot Open source and building RESTful APIs, GCP, Kafka and knowledge on distributed systems
- Expert Java fluency with Java 17 streams.
- Knowledgeable and experienced with real time framework, data streaming like Kafka, Filnk), in-memory computation and data virtualization tools & techniques.
- Knowledgeable and experienced with scripting languages such as Java is preferred.
- Strong UNIX shell scripting skills
- Thorough understanding of XML, JSON, Web Service technologies, and data structure fundamentals.
- Highly proficient in SQL and PL/SQL Skilled at optimizing large, complicated SQL statements Strong PL/SQL skills including complex query building and query performance tuning.
- Experience with DevOps tools, automating engineering and operational tasks.
- Strong Knowledge of logical and physical data modeling (relational, dimensional data modeling)
- Familiarity with Time Series Databases, monitoring, instrumentation, observability tools and concepts
- Provide technical recommendations to improve efficiency of Data Management /ETL process.
- Strong dB query optimization & performance tuning skills. The ability to analyze and resolve performance issues within variety of operational environments quickly and efficiently.
- Create/ maintain database objects such as tables, views, indexes, constraints, and SQL code, and stored procedures and shell scripts.
- Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate
- Knowledge in objected oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms.
- Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
- Ensure data quality and integrity within each data set and support linkage to other appropriate data sets in consistent manner. This includes testing and validating any new database design against previous data structures.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze data concerning production volumes, batch schedules, and i/o statistics.
- Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners.
- Experience with a broad range of software languages and financial business domain knowledge will be a plus.
Other Competencies:
- Flexibility
- Collaboration & Partnership
- Continuous Improvement
- Courage
- Curiosity
- Resourcefulness
- Tenacity
Preferred Qualifications:-
- Distributed Systems & Big Data Frameworks
- Experience with distributed computing technologies such as Apache Spark, MapReduce, Apache Beam, Flink, etc. (important for large-scale data processing)
- Familiarity with big data ecosystems like Hadoop and understanding how distributed architectures work
- Ability to design and optimize distributed data pipelines that scale for batch and real-time processing Cloud + Data Platform Experience
- Experience with cloud big-data services (especially Google Cloud Platform BigQuery, DataProc, Dataflow, Cloud Composer etc.) or equivalents like AWS/GCP/Azure.
- Knowledge of cloud-native data architectures and how distributed workloads operate in cloud environments
Data Pipeline & Workflow Orchestration - Expertise building/modifying pipelines using Airflow or similar schedulers.
- Building solutions that handle both batch and real-time streaming data.
- Programming & Query Languages
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Java, often required for distributed computing tasks.
- Deep knowledge of SQL, including optimizing queries over large, distributed datasets.
- Data Engineering & Architecture Skills
- Experience designing scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and data modelling for distributed systems.
- Familiarity with data warehousing and data architecture best practices.
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
- Support for financial-well-being and retirement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- 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
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.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
