Data Engineer I

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

Purpose of the Role:

LUMI is company’s largest Big Data Platform, ideally suited for computationally and/or data intensive processing applications. Whether the data needs to be processed in batch, online, or streaming manner, Lumi provides robust capabilities to handle such workloads effectively, in a cost-efficient manner.

A hub of very hardworking Big Data engineers and most exciting & upcoming technologies. Cornerstone platform offers an environment where Engineers are challenged every day to build world class products.

As we embark on the journey to move to public cloud - GCP you will be part of a fast-paced Agile team, design, develop, test, troubleshoot & optimize solutions created to simplify access to the Amex’s Big Data Platform.

Focus:

Designs, develops, solves problems, debugs, evaluates, modifies, deploys, and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

Organizational Context:

Member of an engineering or delivery and integration team reporting to an engineer manager or Engineering Director

Responsibilities:

• Implement enterprise grade robust data migration solutions using Java and Python, facilitating seamless data transfer from on-premises environments to GCP (including Cloud Storage and Big Query), leveraging Apache Airflow and Google Cloud Composer.
  
• Build secured, and optimized data architectures on GCP by integrating services such as Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Dataproc.
  
• Implement automated solutions for data delivery, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
  
• Monitor system performance and proactively optimize data pipelines for efficiency
  
• Troubleshoot and resolve issue. 
  
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for tools, architecture, processes, and solutions.
  
• Data Pipeline Development:
  
• Build, test, and deploy data pipelines to move, transform, and process data from various sources to GCP
  
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of data pipelines. 
  
• Utilize GCP's big data technologies such as Big Query, Dataflow, Data prep, and Pub/Sub to implement effective data processing solutions
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 1-2 years of developer experience .
  
• Proficiency in any one of the programming languages Java/Python and shell scripting. 
  
• Good in SQL.
  
• Hands-on experience in Google Cloud Platform services like Cloud Storage & Big query.
  
• Hands-on experience in any one or two of the RDBMS like Oracle, Postgres or MySQL and good exposure to at least one NoSQL DB like Cassandra.
  
• Good knowledge in Git & CICD processes.
  
• Experience of working in agile application development environment
  
• Technical support to applications on trouble shooting Environment, software and application-level issues Write, test programs using Unix Shell scripting.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands on or exposure to DevOps best practices and implementation.
  
• Hands-on or exposure to platform engineering including networking and firewall.
  
• Hands-on or exposure to GenAI integrations including LLMs and RAG.
  

• 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