Data Engineer III
American Express · Posted Oct 26
Banking, credit card, payment network, and travel services
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About the role
Next Generation Data management (NGDM) provides data management services to American Express Technologies, developing data architecture and database solutions and mapping data models to optimized database implementations. The team works across relational and NoSQL database technologies including Couchbase, Cassandra, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, aligned with enterprise technology standards. The Data Engineer III designs, automates, and operates scalable, highly available enterprise database platforms, covering lifecycle management, performance optimization, capacity planning, backup and recovery, and cloud/automation modernization.
What you will do
- Design, develop, implement, and support enterprise-scale relational and NoSQL database platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Manage end-to-end database lifecycle activities, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, capacity expansion, backup, recovery, and performance optimization.
- Engineer and maintain distributed database clusters supporting mission-critical applications and high-volume transactional workloads.
- Develop and implement infrastructure and database automation solutions using Ansible, Python, Shell scripting, and other automation frameworks to improve operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with application development and architecture teams to design efficient data models, optimize database access patterns, and address complex performance challenges.
- Drive proactive database monitoring, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of database platform stability.
- Support database infrastructure modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption, automation, and platform standardization.
- Integrate database engineering and operational processes with Agile and CI/CD practices to enable efficient and reliable deployments.
- Partner with cross-functional engineering, infrastructure, and production support teams to resolve technical challenges and deliver scalable database solutions.
- Contribute to database engineering standards, technical documentation, operational procedures, and best practices for enterprise database environments.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; advanced degree preferred.
- Strong Amex business Domain knowledge.
- 10+ years of database development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience.
- Hands-on experience with design and development across one or more database management systems, such as Postgres, Oracle, Couchbase, Cassandra, Mongo
- Hands-on experience handling operational tasks of NosqL Databases such as Couchbase, Cassandra, Mongo database upgrade/downgrade, capacity expansion, backup and recovery, performance tuning or any Open Source Technologies like Postgres , MySQL
- Good to have experience on Automation experience using Ansible for Infrastructure use cases like Upgrade , Patching ,etc
- Practical experience with Data Architecture, translate business data requirements into data models (Conceptual, logical, physical) and using data modeling tools.
- Experience in coordinating with multiple development, infrastructure, framework, and production support teams.
- Experience in one of the public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure preferred.
- Experience with distributed/multi-tier systems and application development, including software development experience in languages such as Shell, Python, Go, Java; experience with implementing web APIs; front-end development experience in React or Angular.
- Experience with Agile development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, including working knowledge of various tools in the CI/CD pipeline.
- Experience developing tools for database automation preferred.
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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