Senior Big Data Engineer

You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we're supporting our customers' financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what's possible - and we're proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.

You will be leading of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world class Omnichannel experience with embedded data experience of analytics and insights, building data driven solution on Big Data stack, Machine Learning and APIs. You will be challenged with identifying innovative and transformative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers.

We are looking for passionate Senior engineer with Insights, Analytical and Data Experience to work and lead team on the futuristic Digital and Data engineering, Digital asset creation & API integration for our clients & partners. This requires the ability to go deep in American Express payment system with many dependencies while responsible for the technical deliveries and implementation of components. As a Senior engineer in our OPEN SOURCE development team you will be responsible for leading, developing and delivering digital experience for the future supporting American Express user experiences on Omnichannel (web, bot,mobile, etc.), as well as integrations with partners. Strong on Cloud technology implementation private and public / hybrid domains. Senior Engineer lead POCs, MVP using open source , American express frameworks like OneAmex , Cornerstone, Cloud Event schema for event architecture.

You will work closely with product and experience to understand the requirements and deliver product that meets these requirements. Technologies used vary from Java, SPARK, SCALA, HIVE , Python, Microstrategy , Tableau etc. If you are the kind of lead engineer who is passionate about bringing great products to life especially in payment area, being a crafts(wo)man in engineering and love working in a collaborative environment with your product partners and dependency teams, then we want to talk to you.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Perform all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications including design, hands-on engineering, developing framework & tooling including prototypes, and code review, mentor engineering peers and own and drive transformation with various technology domains.
• Leads the design, development, troubleshooting, and debugging of work efforts for customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end-user applications. Strong Industry awareness, Technology landscape changes , Solutions scalable and cloud native.
• Function as an engineering leader on an agile team to build scalable software solutions through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation).
• Strong OpenSource & innersource influencer and enable engineers to guide and adapt.
• Lead code reviews (Pull Requests).
• Lead and contribute into engineering excellence like automated of all testing areas.
• Lead Product Management and work closely with product owners in defining product and engineering roadmap.
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Leads the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
• Automate deployments in test or production environments.
• Goal to have all applications able automatically scale and non functional requirements of self-healing built within every critical journeys
• Strong interpersonal leadership.
• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.
• Influence team members with innovative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
• Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your workflow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
• Mentor and guide team members to success within the team.

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.

If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e., 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J) and, for medically eligible* colleagues, a booster shot, in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

*Booster eligibility: The CDC has established guidelines for when adults are eligible to receive booster shots depending on when they completed their initial vaccine series (currently five months after the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, and two months after the J&J Vaccine). If you have completed your primary vaccine series but have not yet reached your booster eligibility date, you will be able to come into the office; however, you will need to complete your booster within 30 days of becoming eligible to continue coming in and participating in company-sponsored in-person events.

Minimum Qualifications :

• 8+ years of software development experience and leading teams of engineers and scrum teams

• 8 + years of software engineering experience in designing, building solutions using object oriented technologies

• 5 + years in designing, building data solutions using industry leading BI technologies and open source
• 5 + years of experience in designing Digital or Data engineering solutions
• 5 + years of experience in Database integration, using any SQL or NoSQL based DBs
• 5 + years of experience in Big Data Tech stack of technologies - Spark, Hive

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 + years of experience or exposure to Machine Learning and Artificial Engineering
• 5 + years of experience in core Java development / design / architecture
• Enable engineering teams to adapt and promote OpenSource
• Thinking leader in building innovation and transformational technology strategies
• 1 + years of experience in Cloud technologies , building MicroServices and scalable solutions
• 1 + years of experience in designing and building solutions using Kafka streams or queues
• 2 + years of experience in developing Java, REST , REACT , SPRING applications and solutions
• "Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions."

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected 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.

If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e., 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J) in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.