Engineer 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?

We are building an energetic, high-performance team with a nimble and creative mindset to drive our technology and products. American Express (AXP) is a powerful brand, a great place to work and has unparalleled scale. Join us for an exciting opportunity in the Marketing Data Technology (Mar Tech Data Team) within American Express Technologies. This team is specialized in creating and expanding suite of data and insight solutions to power the customer marketing ecosystem. The team creates and manages various batch/Realtime marketing data products that fuels the Customer Marketing Platforms. Being part of the team, you will get numerous opportunities to utilize and learn bigdata and GCP cloud technologies.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for delivering the features or software functionality independently and reliably.
• Develop technical design documentation.
• Functions as core member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
• Performs hands-on ETL development for marketing data applications.
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing.
• Helps other junior members of the team deliver.
• Demonstrates analytical thinking - recommends improvements, best practices and conducts experiments to prove/disprove them
• Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability.
• Learns, understands, participates fully in all team ceremonies, including work breakdown, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential, including substantiated ability to innovate and take pride in quickly deploying working software.
• High energy demonstrated, willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with minimum 4+ years of overall software design and development experience.
• Expert in SQL and Data warehousing concepts.
• Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Working knowledge of data storage solutions like Big Query or Cloud SQL and data engineering tools like AirFlow or Cloud Workflows.
• Experience with other GCP services like Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, or Data Catalog.
• Familiarity with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
• Hands on experience with one or more programming languages (Java, Python).
• Hands-on expertise with software development in Big Data (Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, HIVE).
• Experience with CICD pipelines, Automated test frameworks, DevOps and source code management tools (XLR, Jenkins, Git, Sonar, Stash, Maven, Jira, Confluence, Splunk etc.).
• Knowledge of various Shell Scripting tools and ansible will be added advantage.
• Strong communication and analytical skills including effective presentation 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.