Job Description

:You Lead the Way. Wexe2x80x99ve Got Your Back.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, youxe2x80x99ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thatxe2x80x99s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.At American Express, youxe2x80x99ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impactxe2x80x94every colleague has the opportunity to share in the companyxe2x80x99s success. Together, wexe2x80x99ll win as a team, striving to uphold our and powerful backing promise to provide the worldxe2x80x99s best customer experience every day. And wexe2x80x99ll 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.What we're looking for:You're a talented, creative, and motivated engineer who loves developing powerful, stable, and intuitive apps xe2x80x93 and you're excited to work with a team of individuals with that same passion. You've accumulated years of experience, and you're excited about taking your mastery of Cloud, Big Data and Java to a new level. You enjoy challenging projects involving big data sets and are cool under pressure. You're no stranger to fast-paced environments and agile development methodologies xe2x80x93 in fact, you embrace them. With your strong analytical skills, your unwavering commitment to quality, your excellent technical skills, and your collaborative work ethic, you'll do great things here at American Express.Purpose of the Role:As Senior Engineer you will deliver technical solutions using cutting edge technologies and industry best practices to implement cloud platform. You should have experience in architecting, deploying, automating cloud-based data platforms. You are well versed in technologies such as GCP, Big data, Java, Scala, Spark, Kafka, APIs, Python, RDBMS, NoSQL etc. You are experienced in building low code/no code data transformation tools using cloud technologies such as GCP/ AWS or Azure. Be part of a fast-paced Agile team, design, develop, test, troubleshoot & optimise solutions created to simplify access to the Amex's Big Data Platform.Responsibilities:

• As a Sr. Big Data Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing and building high performance, and scalable data platforms
• You will be leading team of multiple very enthusiastic and skilled engineers to drive the product development and adoption
• You will be required to effectively collaborate with product teams from business group and understand the product roadmap and vision and translate that into engineering artefacts
• You will work with a variety of teams and individuals, including platform engineers, usecase owners, analytical users to understand their needs and come up with innovative solutions
• You will follow the Amex-way of building engineering products that leads to engineering excellence by adopting DevOps principals

Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree would be a plusGreat to have :- GCP professional certification - Data Engineer/Cloud Architect will be preferable6+ years of software development experience with hands-on expertise in coding in Java/Python/Scala etc3+ years of experience in creating low code/no code ETL tool for setting up large scale data transformation on GCP CloudExpert in Google BigQuery tool for data warehousing needsStrong SQL, RDBMS skills. Expert in writing complex SQLs for different databases such as Hive , MySQL , Postgres etc. Proficiency in working with NoSQL databases as wellExperience working with Spark , Big Data and HiveExperience in Git Management including PR reviews, maintaining code hygieneIn-depth understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modelling, and data integration techniquesExperience in optimising high volume data processing jobs.3+ years experience in writing APIs and spring boot services.Knowledge of High availability and DR setup.Hands-on experience on CICD pipelines, Automated test frameworks, DevOps and source code management will be a big plus (XLR, Jenkins, Git, Stash, Jira, Confluence, Splunk etc.)Experience working in Agile/SAFe framework for developmentExcellent communication and analytical skillsExcellent team-player with ability to work with global teamWe back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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.

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