Data Engineer II
American Express · Posted Oct 22
Banking, credit card, payment network, and travel services
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About the role
American Express is a global payments and financial services company whose culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors. This Data Engineer II role sits within a data engineering function focused on GCP-based Big Data platforms such as BigQuery, DataProc, Spark, Hive, HBase and BigTable. The role involves facilitating seamless data integration and model maintenance, building and enhancing data pipelines and database designs, supporting production environments, and ensuring compliance with enterprise standards.
What you will do
- Evaluates data requirements and stories, documents them for seamless integration into existing architectures, and maintains data models to support business needs
- Builds and enhances data pipelines and database designs to meet performance, scalability, and security requirements
- Should have good hands on with GCP technologies like : BigQuery, DataProc and other services of GCP.
- Have good working knowledge of SQL and data evaluation tools.
- Collaborates in design reviews and testing, and provides production environment support with guidance from peers and leaders
- Completes work reviews and fosters a collaborative learning environment with guidance from peers and leaders
- Communicates and collaborates with business and product teams to facilitate changes and implementation
- Completes Big Data/Spark and Other distributed frameworks requirements by implementing basic partitioning and indexing solutions
- Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and/or comparable experience; advanced degree preferred
- Knowledge of Big Data / NoSQL design and development with variety of data stores.
- Knowledge of database management system products and ecosystem – e.g., storage formats, access algorithms, data management processes, administration, data maintenance, replication, high availability, encryption, etc.
- Knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational & non-relational database
- Data engineering and 4+ years of experience in development.
- Have good experience in performance tuning of large data processing in both batch and real-time.
- Experience in SQL and Python (or any other programming language like Java)
- Experience in design and development across one or more database management systems (e.g., HBase, Hive, GCP tools, NoSQL, BigTable, BigQuery, Cloud Spanner) as appropriate.
- Experience in NoSQL databases (e.g., Hbase, BigTable)
- Experience in performance tuning in the Big Data space
- Experience in distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and application development
- Experience in database development and support of online transaction processing and/or online analytical processing systems
- Experience in software delivery methodology (Agile, Scrum, Agile XP, Test-Driven Development etc.)
- GCP Certificate will be good add-on.
Benefits and support
- 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
About American Express
American Express Company is a globally recognized multinational financial services corporation specializing in payment cards, travel-related services, and network banking. Founded in 1850, the company provides charge and credit cards, expense management products, and merchant services to consumers, small businesses, and large corporations worldwide. It operates a proprietary payments network known for its premium customer engagement and lifestyle rewards programs.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 76800 employees
- Founded
- 1850-03-18
- Location
- New York City, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
Chief Colleague Experience Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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