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American Express is looking for a hands-on Engineer in the Risk Decision Technologies (RDT) organization for the Data Engineering team. The RDT team is responsible for cross-domain, configurable platforms to enable best-in-class risk management and American Express growth with strong governance. The Data Engineering team is embarking on a journey to build Next-gen data platform to support critical Risk Business functions like payments authorization, new account fulfilment, credit collections and underwriting risk.

Risk Data Management (RDM) platform powers the risk assessment engine with large scale Big data, and highly available transactional data stores and also support data publishing capabilities. The platform also includes cloud native applications to support low latency, scalable and modular architecture.

This role of a Engineer will be an integral part of a team that designs and builds large-scale, cloud-native applications and drive us closer to the vision of a robust Risk data platform.

As an Engineer, you will:

• Function as a member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.

• Perform technical development for applications including architecture, design, developing prototypes, writing new code and API's and performing unit and assembly testing of developed software also as needed
• Hand-on architecture working closely with solution architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews
• Typically spends 80% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time managing team and stakeholders through ongoing product/platform developments
• Perform code reviews, make design decisions and ensure constant focus on quality and clearing technical debt items in the backlog.

• Build new micro-services that help manages our rapidly growing data hub.
• Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines.
• Work on cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with Engineers across organizations.
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains
• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best practice methodologies and processes.
• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas in development / test area.
• Provide continuous support for ongoing application availability.
• Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative mindset and challenge the status quo.

• Hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience).
• 6+ years of experience in software development and quality assurance.
• 4+ years of experience in Java development and building large scale distributed applications
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Micro-services, Kafka, Relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing.
• Demonstrated experience of writing applications for deployment on cloud environment including OpenShift and Docker containers.
• Experience on RESTful API design and implementation is a plus
• Experience with automated release management using Maven, Gradle, Git, Jenkins.
• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels across functions, from both technical and non-technical perspectives alike.

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. Amex

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 your professional development. Find your place in technology

on #TeamAmex.

United States Only:

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