Senior Data Engineer

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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.

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 skill fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.  Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex. 

How will you make an impact in this role?

Join a culture of data-driven success. The Global Network Infrastructure team fosters effective metrics, data-driven processes, and architecture simplification. Our Data Engineers utilize cutting-edge technology to design, manage and analyze data that fuels better decisions, maximizes value, and elevates customer satisfaction.

We will leverage your expertise in data components to identify and solve business challenges. If you have experience with data architecture, modeling, database objects and administration, you can help us unlock valuable insights for customer-facing, business, and internal applications. Some of your responsibilities may include:

• Design and build data models for efficient processing and standardized metrics.
• Collaborate with network, business, and application teams to translate data needs into actionable insights.
• Develop reports, processes and KPI’s to drive data-driven decisions.
• Champion innovation and best practices to optimize data solutions and infrastructure.
• Work collaboratively in a distributed environment to deliver high-impact features.
• Partner with key network stakeholders, architects, and engineers to design data solutions to meet enterprise platform objectives and goals.
• Stays abreast of new DBMS features and functions and drive adoption across the team to use product capabilities.
• Contributes to decisions about tools, methods, and approaches.
• Works closely with network and infrastructure product owners on blueprints and planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and product.
  

Qualifications

• 4+ years of database development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience. 
• Experience with business report creation tools, e.g., Tableau, Power BI.
• Experience with database design, development, and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of distributed systems, algorithms, and data management.
• Experience with ServiceNow data and data models.
• Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to understand and document business data requirements in complete, accurate, extensible, and flexible logical data models, data modeling tools for complex technology platforms.
• Able to facilitate discussions between Technology and business people, recognize issues of conflict and inconsistency between data requirements and pursue a resolution of these issues.
• Expert in XML and schema development/reuse, RDBMS databases.
• Leads modification and maintenance of data structures and associated components according to logical and physical design structures for large or complex systems.
• Takes part in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work. 
• Able to participate in assigned team’s software delivery methodology (Agile, Scrum, Agile XP, Test-Driven Development, Waterfall, etc.)

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.

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 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid or onsite arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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.

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 or in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days).

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