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American Express

Senior Engineer - Big Data platforms - Cornerstone Big Data

American Express, Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85003


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At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

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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

The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The American Express Big Data team is responsible for building and managing state of the art big data platforms, supporting data ingestion and transformation at peta-byte scale.

Role Description/Requirements

Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large-scale enterprise BigData applications ensuring data quality meeting compliance & governance requirements to meet enterprise grade standards

Expertise in optimizing BigData applications for performance betterment and resource utilization

Expertise in designing and implementing auto-heal pipeline for system issues

Expertise in Java, Springboot

Hands on expertise in GCP, Pub-sub, Composer, Airflow, Big Query

Hands on expertise working with Hybrid eco-system that combines cloud and on-prem infrastructure supporting migration

Hands on working with cross-functional teams to deliver on system design and development for the needed requirements supporting various business units

Experience with high level enterprise strategy and blueprints and convert into system deliverables

Hands on expertise in RDBMS viz Postgres, MySQL

Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments

Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform

Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the peer code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective.

Experience writing software in Python, Java or similar.

Expertise in pre-processing and cleaning large datasets for training models.

Familiarity with data augmentation techniques to enhance model performance.

Experience in deploying language models in production environments and integrating them into applications, platforms, or services.

Exposure in building Predictive models using machine learning through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.

Review architecture and provide technical guidance for engineers.

Hands on experience with Big Data technologies (Spark, Kafka, Hive, etc.) and have at least 1 Big data implementation on platforms like Cornerstone,

Exposure in building cloud-native platforms on modern tech stack: AWS, Java, Spring Framework, RESTful API, and container-based application.

Ability to learn new tools and paradigms in data engineering and science.

Proven experience attracting, hiring, retaining, and leading top engineering talent.

Bachelor's degree with a preference for Computer Science

Technology Core Competencies

Hands-on engineer with expertise in Java, Python, Springboot,

Hands on expertise in GCP, Pub-sub, Composer, Airflow, Big Query

Hands on expertise in RDBMS viz Postgres, MySQL

Experience in streaming technologies such as Kafka, Spark Streaming, Pub-Sub

High-performing Behaviors Be a productivity multiplier across multiple teams by

analyzing the work flow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results

Enterprise thinking - find opportunities to educate and learn from other groups, including mobile & web engineering teams

Solves technical problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities

Develop team's strategy and prioritize technology initiatives

Ensure frictionless CI/CD pipeline from the teams

Able to effectively communicate the concerns and capacity of the team to partners

Introduces new and impactful technologies based on research, POC efforts and independent research

Minimum QualificationsCore Competencies

Hands-on engineer with expertise in Java, Springboot, Microservices

Hands on expertise in GCP, Pub-sub, Composer, Airflow, Big Query

Hands on expertise in RDBMS viz Postgres, MySQL, Oracle

Experience in streaming technologies such as Kafka, Spark Streaming, Pub-Sub

Enterprise thinking - find opportunities to educate and learn from other groups, including mobile & web engineering teams

Solves technical problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities

Ensure frictionless CI/CD pipeline from the teams

Able to effectively communicate the concerns and capacity of the team to partners

Introduces new and impactful technologies based on research, POC efforts and independent research

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related STEM field

10+ years of experience.