Senior Engineer I

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Job Description

Looking for a self-driven experienced Sr Engineer with good years of experience in big data ecosystem. Part of the ODS Hollow-out and Finance modernization initiatives, he/she would be expected to work on modernizing the data pipelines, leveraging FALCON provided data and using that to create Finance derived data assets in FODL enriched layer, which will eventually replace ODS and feed the downstream systems in Finance including Treasury, Regulatory Reporting, BASEL and CECL etc..

Generic Software Development

• Intermediate to advanced level ability in software development
• Function as member of an agile team by chipping into 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

Leadership

• Opportunity to lead a small team of developers and motivate them to achieve their potential
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking
• Good experience in data programming and applications systems design and architecture is required.
• Develops and tests software, including ongoing refactoring of code & drives continuous improvement in code structure & quality
• Primary focus is spent writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews & testing in ongoing sprints or doing proof of concepts/automation tools
• Applies visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts
• Functions as a core member of an Agile team driving User story analysis & elaboration, design and development of software applications, testing & builds automation tools
• Works on a specific platform/product or as part of a dynamic resource pool assigned to projects based on demand and business priority
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• Embodies rebel with a cause mentality by looking beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent OR Master’s in Computer Applications or equivalent.
• 12+ years of software development experience and leading teams of engineers and scrum teams
• 5+ years of hands-on experience of working with Map-Reduce, Hive, Spark (core, SQL and PySpark)
• Solid Data warehousing concepts
• Knowledge of Financial reporting ecosystem will be a plus
• Hands-on experience with programming using Core Java or Python/Scala
• Expert on Hadoop and Spark Architecture and its working principle
• Hands-on experience on writing and understanding complex SQL(Hive/PySpark-dataframes), optimizing joins while processing huge amount of data
• Experience in UNIX shell scripting
• Ability to design and develop optimized Data pipelines for batch and real time data processing
• Should have experience in analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of system applications
• Demonstrated ability to develop and document technical and functional specifications and analyze software and system processing flows

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of cloud platforms like GCP, building Microservices and scalable solutions, will be an advantage
• 2 + years of experience in designing and building solutions using Kafka streams or queues 
• Experience with GitHub/Bitbucket and leveraging CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with NoSQL i.e., HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB is a good to have
• Excellent technical and analytical aptitude
• Good communication skills
• Excellent Project management skills
• Results driven

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.