Amex | Data Engineer – Cloud and Data Services | Phoenix, AZ | United States | BigDataKB.com | 11/16/2022

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When you join Team Amex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we champion your meaningful career journey with programs, benefits, and flexibility to back you personally and professionally. Every colleague share in the company’s success.

Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to our customers, communities, and each other every day. And we’ll do it with integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they truly belong.

Join #TeamAmex and let’s lead the way together.

From building next-generation apps and microservices in Kotlin to using AI to help protect our customers from fraud, you could be doing transformational work that brings our iconic, global brand into the future. As a part of our tech team, we could work together to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power the digital systems, services, products and platforms that millions of customers around the world depend on. If you love to work with APIs, contribute to open source, or use the latest technologies, we’ll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.

Focus:

Designs, develops, solves problems, evaluates, modifies, deploys and documents all data components (data architecture, logical and physical data models, database objects and database administration) that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

Organizational Context:

Member of a database management team or database support team reporting to a Senior Data Engineer, Senior Data Architect, Engineering Director or Director of Technical Delivery.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Documents data requirements / data stories and maintains data models to ensure flawless integration into existing data architectures

• Leads data assets as per the organization standards, guidelines and policies

• Documents processing requirements inclusive of data and transaction volumes, scalability, security and performance requirements

• Creates and maintains detailed information about the data being stored in the database

• Understands the database requirements and translate into physical database design.

• Follows data placement procedures and re-use of existing databases when possible

• Builds and enhances database design and infrastructure required to support the Business portfolio

• Performs database design review and supports database testing

• Provides production environment support for database systems and processes

• Communicates and works reciprocally with business and product teams to support changes and implementation

• Write instructions to guide database operators during production runs

• Work on assigned database features for ongoing sprints and lead database requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues

• Partner with delivery architects and engineers to design optional data tier solutions to meet platform objectives and goals

• Function as an active member if an agile team through consistent development practices (tools, components, and documentation)

• Seek opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

Range of Impact/Influence:

• Accountable for team completing work you’re leading and work you are doing as agreed upon

• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work

Do you see data or a better way to improve business and lives? Today, there’s a business advantage hiding in plain sight, and you’ll find it in data. Our Data Engineers know how to use the latest technology to design, evaluate, debug and manage the data that leads to better decisions, a stronger company, and higher customer satisfaction. So if you’re not intimidated by the data explosion, engineer your career here. More than the data on what you’ll be doing. There’s no end to the data that’s created every day and the opportunities you find here. But these are just some of your responsibilities: – Document data requirements/data stories and maintain data models – Support the management of data assets according to enterprise standards, guidelines and policies – Help build and enhance the database design that supports our business portfolio – Work collaboratively with business and product teams – Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

Basic Qualifications:

• BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline

• 3+ years of overall design and development experience

• Strong analytical skills with a validated ability to understand and document business data requirements in complete, accurate, extensible and flexible logical data models using data modeling tools – ErStudio, ErWin

• Demonstrated hands usage of XML/JSON and schema development/reuse, Open Source and NoSQL

• Expert in any programming language (Java, python, etc.)

• Experience with design and development across one or more database management systems (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Couchbase)

• Experience with Database query optimization and indexing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with automation tools and scripting are highly desired.

• A propensity to experiment with emerging technologies.

• Find opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex

Basic Qualifications:

• BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline

• 3+ years of overall design and development experience

• Strong analytical skills with a validated ability to understand and document business data requirements in complete, accurate, extensible and flexible logical data models using data modeling tools – ErStudio, ErWin

• Demonstrated hands usage of XML/JSON and schema development/reuse, Open Source and NoSQL

• Expert in any programming language (Java, python, etc.)

• Experience with design and development across one or more database management systems (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Couchbase)

• Experience with Database query optimization and indexing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with automation tools and scripting are highly desired.

• A propensity to experiment with emerging technologies.

• Find opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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