Senior Engineer - Next Generation Big Data

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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.

What we're looking for:

You're a talented, creative, and motivated engineer who loves developing powerful, stable, and intuitive apps - and you're excited to work with a team of individuals with that same passion. You've accumulated years of experience, and you're excited about taking your mastery of Big Data and Java to a new level. You enjoy challenging projects involving big data sets and are cool under pressure. You're no stranger to fast-paced environments and agile development methodologies - in fact, you embrace them. With your strong analytical skills, your unwavering commitment to quality, your excellent technical skills, and your collaborative work ethic, you'll do great things here at American Express.

Purpose of the Role:

Cornerstone is company's largest Big Data Platform, ideally suited for computationally and/or data intensive processing applications. Whether the data needs to be processed in batch, online, or streaming manner, Cornerstone provides robust capabilities to handle such workloads effectively, in a cost-efficient manner.

A hub of highly talented Big Data engineers and most exciting & upcoming technologies. Cornerstone platform offers an environment where Engineers are challenged every day to build world class products.

As we embark on the journey to move to public cloud - GCP you will 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. Focus:

Designs, develops, solves problems, debugs, evaluates, modifies, deploys, and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

Organizational Context:

Member of an engineering or delivery and integration team reporting to a Senior Engineer, Engineering Director.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Software Development

• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Participate in code reviews and automated 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
• Architect, design, develop and maintain enterprise capabilities and systems.
• Collaborate with team/s in agile environment on creating, evolving, and maintaining engineering excellence principles related to Code, Code reviews, Testing methodologies (Unit, Integration etc.,) and defect management
• Developing prototypes utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts.
• Seeks continuous improvement by considering solutions that make novel use of existing ideas, approaches, technologies, or products.
• Works with Senior engineers and product owners to deliver new features and enhance existing features.

Leadership

• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

Range of Impact/Influence:

• Accountable for team completing work you're leading and work you are doing as agreed upon
• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work

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. American Express 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 of #TeamAmex.

Minimum Qualifications:Qualifications - External

4+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate.
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing.
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
• Thorough understanding and hands-on experience in Bigdata technologies.
• Good understanding of CI/CD processes.
• Good understanding of different data models (Relational, Graph, Document etc.,).
• Expertise in objected oriented analysis and design.
• Understanding and hands on experience of cloud principles and technologies (AWS, GCP, Dockerization, Kubernetes, Dataflow, BigQuery, Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Dataproc).
• Opensource contributions will be an added advantage.
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred

High Performance Behaviors:

• Recognizes opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to enable business capabilities.
• Keeps up to date on current research and technology in the industry.
• Recognizes the importance of collaboration to achieve objectives.
• Clearly communicates ideas and concepts to others.
• Finds opportunities within projects and acts on own initiative without being prompted, including making appropriate decisions as vital.
• Provides feedback to team members in code reviews.
• Drive creative changes & continuous improvements.
• Mentors and guides junior team members to success within the team

Knowledge/Skills:

• Able to understand and use complex data structures and associated components.
• Designs, codes, tests, maintains, and documents applications.
• Lead reviews of colleagues' work.
• Defines test conditions based on the requirements and specifications provided.
• Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s).
• Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components.

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.

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