Data Engineer II

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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.

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American Express is entering into a technology transformation phase driven by opportunities to modernize legacy platforms and explore modern software to be on the leading edge of payment card industry. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, with deep hands-on experience and strategic thinking, in areas of real time, high available and highly scalable application development, join our Enterprise Architecture (EA) team to help transform the Amex legacy systems to a state of the art distributed and global processing environment. This individual will architect cutting-edge strategies for the payment process using latest computing techniques driving proof of concepts with strong hands-on experience. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications skills to adopt the concepts into production. 

About Enterprise Architecture:

Enterprise Architecture is an organization within the Chief Technology Office at American Express and it is a key enabler of the company’s technology strategy. The four pillars of Enterprise Architecture include:

1.      Architecture as Code: this pillar owns and operates foundational technologies that are leveraged by engineering teams across the enterprise.

2.      Architecture as Design: this pillar includes the solution and technical design for transformation programs and business critical projects which need architectural guidance and support.

3.      Governance: this pillar is responsible for defining technical standards, and developing innovative tools that automate controls to ensure compliance.

4.      Colleague Enablement: this pillar is focused on colleague development, recognition, training, and enterprise outreach.

Knowledge/Skills

·         Able to establish, modify or maintain data structures and associated components according to design

·         Understands Metadata Management and Database Management concepts

·         Understands and documents business data requirements in complete, accurate, extensible and flexible logical data models using data modeling tools – ErStudio, ErWin etc.

·         Creates data models using the relevant tools and frameworks

·         Able to come up with Conceptual and Logical Data Models at Enterprise, Business Unit/Domain Level

·         Understands XML/JSON and schema development/reuse, database concepts, database designs, Open Source and NoSQL concepts

·         Partners with Sr. Data Engineers and Sr. Data architects to create platform level data models and database designs

·         Good understanding and Technical knowledge of DBMS products and ecosystem – e.g. storage formats, access algorithms, data management processes, administration, data maintenance, replication, high availability, encryption, etc.”

·         Ability to monitor and tune databases and DBMS’s to reach high performance – e.g. use data monitoring and analysis tools, tune configuration parameters, alter physical designs, benchmark, etc.

·         Takes part in reviews of own work and reviews of colleagues' work

·         Application of industry recognized methods, processes and standards

·         Has working knowledge of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, designing, building, testing, configuring and maintaining of assigned application(s)

·         Able to participate in assigned team’s software delivery methodology (Agile, Scrum, Agile XP, Test-Driven Development, Waterfall, etc.) in support of data management and database development

·         Understands infrastructure technologies and components like servers, jvms, databases, and networking concepts

Minimum requirements:

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

·       Understanding of Agile or other rapid application development methods

·       Exposure to design and development across one or more database management systems (e.g. IMS, DB2 zOS, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Netezza (PDA/DB2AA)) as appropriate

·       Exposure to methods relating to application and database design, development and automated testing

·       Understanding of big data technology and NOSQL design and development with variety of data stores (document, column family, graph, etc.)

·       General knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational & non-relational databases

·       Exposure to Big data technology and NOSQL design and coding with variety of data stores (document, column family, graph, etc.). Awareness of Cloud Native Database Technologies (BigQuery etc.)

·       Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related field required; advanced degree preferred

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.