Senior Data Engineer I

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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.

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About the job:

The position of Senior Data Engineer will be a part of a dynamic and growing team within the GRCT organization at American Express.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mentors junior Data Engineers and multi-functional team of colleagues, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation
• Leads and collaborates within Agile teams, support business and product changes, and prioritize features for ongoing sprints
• Stays abreast of new database management system features and functions and drive adoption across Amex to use product capabilities
• Provides guidance and support to junior engineers, fostering professional growth and development within the team
• Converts logical data architectures into physical designs and spends significant time on database development and testing
• Provides administration services for databases, data warehouses, and datamarts, and continuously improves database design and performance
• Identifies and fixes database performance issues, ensuring optimal replication, high availability, and effective backup and recovery processes
• Develops and implements standard practices for data management, security, and processes, and contribute to tool and method decisions
• Enhances Big Data management strategies by designing and implementing advanced partitioning and indexing solutions
• Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, with a solid focus on GCP.
• Proficiency in GCP services such as Big Query, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer (Airflow), and Pub/Sub.
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and ETL/ELT processes.
• Experience with data modeling, including dimensional, normalized, and canonical models.
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (Python or Scala).
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, and data quality.
• Experience with CI/CD practices and DevOps principles.
• Superb communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
• Experience with Apache Beam, Spark, or Kafka preferred.
• Experience with Collibra or other data governance tools preferred.
  

• 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