Job Description

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With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.



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.



Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.



American Express is looking for a hands-on Senior Engineer II in the International Card and Risk Services Technology (ICRST) organization. The ICRST 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. Data Management platform powers the risk assessment engine with large scale big data, and highly available transactional data stores and support data publishing capabilities. The platform also includes cloud native applications to support low latency, scalable and modular architecture. This role of Senior Engineer II will be an integral part of a team that designs and builds large-scale, enterprise applications and drive us closer to the vision of a robust Risk data platform.


As an Senior Engineer II, you will:


• Function as a lead of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
• Have primary focus (80%+) on writing quality code, perform unit testing and test automation in ongoing sprints.
• Experience on Python will be preferred
• Have extensive working knowledge on enterprise data warehouse and analytical capabilities.
• Have working knowledge of Big Data, Hadoop, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Airflow and BigQuery.
• Function as a team member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development and test practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation
• Have primary focus (80%+) on writing quality code, perform unit testing and test automation in ongoing sprints.
• Work to introduce new design improvements based on latest tech stack.
• Improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our data pipelines.
• Work on cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with Engineers across organizations.
• Build CICD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Build automation for application changes and deployment for faster time to market.
• 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.
• 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.


Minimum Qualifications:


• Hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience).
• 9+ years of experience in software development.
• 4+ years of experience in Warehousing development and building large scale solutions using Big Data, GCP, Java / Python.
• 4+ years of experience with database technologies like Big Data, Oracle, MySQL.
• Experience with Big data technologies and NoSQL database preferred.
• Understanding of Tools like Event Engine, Magellan an added advantage.
• Experience with automated release management using Maven, Salt, 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.


We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:


• 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.