Senior Engineer II

Job Description

Join Team Amex and lets lead the way together. What were looking for: Youre a talented, creative, and motivated engineer who loves developing powerful, stable, and intuitive apps and youre excited to work with a team of individuals with that same passion. Youve accumulated years of experience, and youre 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. Youre no stranger to fast-paced environments and agile development methodologies in fact, you embrace them. With your strong analytical skills, your unwavering commitment to quality, your excellent technical skills, and your collaborative work ethic, youll 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 Amexs Big Data Platform. Responsibilities: As a Sr. Big Data Engineer, youll 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: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Masters degree would be a plus Great to have :- GCP professional certification - Data Engineer/Cloud Architect will be preferable 6+ years of software development experience with hands-on expertise in coding in Java/Python/Scala etc 3+ years of experience in creating low code/no code ETL tool for setting up large scale data transformation on GCP Cloud Expert in Google BigQuery tool for data warehousing needs Strong SQL, RDBMS skills. Expert in writing complex SQLs for different databases such as Hive , MySQL , Postgres etc. Proficiency in working with NoSQL databases as well Experience working with Spark , Big Data and Hive Experience in Git Management including PR reviews, maintaining code hygiene In-depth understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modelling, and data integration techniques Experience 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 development Excellent communication and analytical skills Excellent team-player with ability to work with global team We 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: