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You Lead the Way. We’ve 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, 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 of #TeamAmex.

Who we are:

The Finance Data Engineering group at American Express is entering into a new phase of technology transformation driven by opportunities to simplify processes, deepen business intelligence, analytics and reporting, and raise operational efficiency. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, with hands on experience and strategic thinking, in areas of data management and analytics, cloud computing, and modern software engineering, join our leadership team to be part of our transformation journey.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 15+ Years hands-on expertise with administration of Business Intelligence software (MicroStrategy, Tableau and/or Power BI) including the installation, setup, patching and upgrading of infrastructure, systems and processes
  • Skilled experience and understanding of Linux (RHEL) and Window’s operating systems on physical and virtual servers utilizing VMWare 
  • Understanding of cloud infrastructure and technologies specifically in Google Cloud Platform 
  • Competent with distributed (multi-tiered) systems and relational database design, development, troubleshooting and automated testing
  • Thorough understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies such as Compute, Storage, Network
  • Lead and assist with the training and understanding of BI tools to team members and other developers who utilize the reporting platform
  • Lead in reviews of individual or team contributions
  • Work on prioritized/assigned features for ongoing sprints
  • Expertise in optimization of reports, web and application servers.
  • Communicate and work reciprocally with business and development teams to support changes and implementation  

Preferred Qualifications

  • Hands-on expertise with Business Intelligence tools such as developer, architect, administration, system health and code migration
  • Understanding of metadata repositories contained within databases.
  • Expertise in developing and troubleshooting with the development of reporting and data visualization with a focus on financial data analysis
  • Ability to work on complex SQL within reports including VLDB settings within MicroStrategy.
  • Proven experience in SQL and familiarity with relational database technologies such as Yellowbrick, Oracle, MS SQL, SingleStore (MemSQL), DB2, PostgreSQL
  • Experience with big data and Google big query preferred though not required 
  • Lead as an active member of an agile team through consistent administration and development practices (tools, components, and documentation)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving, coupled with a continuous improvement mindset
  • Strong understanding of financial data at American Express including upstream and downstream applications and processes 
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex issues in simple terms to a diverse audience
  • Lead team members in the completion of assigned tasks 
  • Knowledge of real time framework and processing
  • Lead training sessions and create comprehensive documentation to empower end users to leverage the Business Intelligence capabilities effectively
  • Ability to in simple scripting commands using programming languages such as Shell or Python
  • Find opportunities to adopt new innovative technologies

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, onsite or virtual 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 either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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