Data Architect II

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Responsible for data architecture deliverables using the Agile development life cycle.
• Defines and maintains data architectures, data standards, and guidelines.
• Works as part of a team of data management professionals supporting a portfolio of development projects, both regional and global in scope.
• Will work with business and application development team partners to analyze and understand business data requirements and translate into data architectures.
• Responsible for NoSQL and RDBMS Database Administration related to Couchbase, Cassandra ,Mongo , Oracle and MSSQL
• Provide business data requirements analysis producing conceptual/logical/physical data models, using a CASE tool to fully document and maintain models and ensure integration into existing data architectures.
• Construct meaningful definitions of data elements which are unambiguous, clear and accurate. Be able to present, argue for and agree all aspects of a data model.
• Assist with defining point of arrival data architectures for systems or business concepts.
• Incorporate project models into a master model by comparing and reconciling differences to achieve a consistent integrated view of the whole business information requirements.
• Adhere to data modeling guidelines, best practices and AET standards
• Conduct the necessary research and analysis on projects to identify and promote the reuse of existing standards, as well as the identification and development of new data standards.
• Assist with standardizing the definition of data for reuse across the enterprise and work with application development teams and business partners to establish and maintain consistent data domain and data element definitions across lines of business.
• Provide full hand over of the logical data model to the application development teams, as well as the DBA for the physical design and database build work.
• Participate in peer reviews of completed data models and plans to ensure quality, and identify alignment opportunities across portfolios or regions.
• Prefer Bachelor’s degree or higher in Information Management, Computer Science Engineering or related subject.
• Experience working independently as an Application Data Modeler, Business Analyst and/or business partner where the majority of time was spent analyzing business data requirements.
• Strong analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to understand and document business data requirements in complete, accurate, extensible, flexible logical data models using CASE modeling tools e.g. ER/Studio, Hackolade.
• Understanding of the full development project lifecycle and a project lifecycle methodology
• Familiarity with Data Architect role within project lifecycle methodology, as well as other development project roles e.g. Business Analyst and DBA within the methodology.
• Able to facilitate discussions between small groups of IT and business people, recognize issues of conflict and inconsistency between data requirements and pursue a resolution of these issues.
• Experience in NoSQL Database Administration related to Couchbase, Cassandra and MongoDB.
• Ability to plan, scope and estimate work effort.
• Ability to work co-operatively as part of a team, as well as independently under own initiative.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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:

• 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.