Senior Data Engineer - job 16 of 19

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

Key Responsibilities: 

• Partner with business, product, engineering and data science teams to unlock the power of leveraging data across Amex.
• Partner with development teams in the data design of complex solutions and ensure that they are in alignment with the data architecture principles, standards, strategies, and target states.
• Drive Data vision, strategy, and execution that meets the technology and business needs across complete Database development lifecycle including identifying the Right database for the need, Database design following all Functional & Non-functional requirements assuring Highly Available, Scalable and Performant solutions
• Discover database requirements and translate into conceptual, logical, physical database design
• Adopt industry leading Database technologies duly leveraging On-prem & Public Cloud to support best-in-class business capabilities to deliver secured, cost efficient, high performance computing and data storage solutions with cost efficiencies and collaborate in evolving enterprise standards & best practices
• Be a thought leader around all things Data, reviewing current and future needs with big picture thinking
• Communicates and works collaboratively with Product, Architects & Engineers to support deliver business priorities in an agile environment
• Continuous learning & evaluation of DBMS features and functions to drive efficiencies & drive adoption
• Contributes to decisions about tools, methods and processes

 Required Skills: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related STEM field required; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of Database Development with Architecture & Design experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience.
• Demonstrated Hands-on experience on Relational & NoSQL Databases on Public Cloud and On-Prem such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra etc including Database Design, DB Development lifecycle activities, Performance tuning, troubleshooting issues, Backup and recovery, Physical & Logical replication solutions including GoldenGate usage are preferred
• Practical experience with Data Architecture, translate business data requirements into Conceptual, logical, physical data models by using industry standard Data modeling products like Hackolade, ERStudio etc
• Experience with cross-team collaboration efforts including multiple development, infrastructure, engineering and production support teams in a dynamic environment.
• Strong Experience in one of the public cloud platforms like AWS and GCP are preferred.
• Experience supporting DBA activities for distributed/multi-tier systems and application development, including programming languages such as Shell, Python, Go, Java
• Experience with Agile development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, including working knowledge of various tools in the CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience developing tools for database automation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills preferred
• Experience and knowledge of data security and privacy concerns

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 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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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

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