Senior Data Engineer I

Job Description

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Hybrid

You Lead the Way. Weve Got Your Back.

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, youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, youll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impactevery colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together, well win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

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 skill fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The Infrastructure Data & Analytics team unifies FinOps, Data Science and Business Intelligence to enable Technology cost transparency, infrastructure performance optimization and commercial efficiency for the enterprise through consistent, high-quality data and predictive analytics. This team within Global Infrastructure aims to establish and reinforce a culture of effective metrics, data-driven business processes, architecture simplification, and cost awareness. Metric-driven cost optimization, workload-specific forecasting and robust contract management are among the tools and practices required to drive accountability for delivering business solutions that derive maximum value. The result will provide a solid foundation for decision-making around cost, quality and speed.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer for our team who can lead the design, development and enhancement of our data model and architecture. This team sets the foundation for how infrastructure utilization, consumption and asset inventory data is ingested, validated, and presented in our suite of reporting capabilities. The Sr. Data Engineer will help ensure data quality (data accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency, uniqueness and relevance) is meeting the highest standards for our users. This individual will be responsible for implementing our target data architecture, leveraging best practices for data management, automating data feeds and transformations, and maintaining excellent documentation.

Lets build on what you know.

The role will require a unique blend of strong data ops technical and design skills to translate business decisions into data requirements. This individual will build a deep understanding of the infrastructure data we use in order to work across the ID&A team and key stakeholders the appropriate data to tell a data story. This includes implementing and maintaining a data architecture that follows data management best practices for ensuring data ingestion, transformation, storage and analytics are handled according to their specific purpose using the appropriate tools : ingestion captures raw data without applying business logic, transformation processes data discretely for auditability, and analytical queries retrieve structured outputs without relying on upstream processes. They will bring passion for data-driven decisions, enterprise solutions, and collaboration to the role, transforming platform data into actionable insights by utilizing data engineering and data visualization best practices.

Key responsibilities include :

• Data Architecture : Perform all technical aspects of data architecture and database management for ID&A, including developing data pipelines, new database structures and APIs as applicable
• Data Design : Translate logical data architectures into physical data designs, ensuring alignment with data modeling best practices and standards
• Data Process and Monitoring : Ensure proper data ingestion, validation, testing, and monitoring for ID&A data lake
• Support database and data platform administration for initiatives building, enhancing, or maintaining databases, data warehouses and data pipelines
• Data Migration : Design and support migration to a data model that is independent of the particular technologies or tools used for storing, processing, or accessing the data
• Data Integrity : Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and quality of data is maintained over time regardless of upstream systems or downstream
• Agile Methodologies : Function as a senior member of an agile feature team and manage data assets as per the enterprise standards, guidelines and policies
• Partner closely with business intelligence team to capture and define data requirements for new and enhanced data visualizations
• Work with product teams to prioritize new features for ongoing sprints and manage backlog
• Enterprise Thinking : Partner with data architects and engineers across Global Infrastructure and Asset Management teams to evolve the broader tech operations data architecture landscape
• Mentor junior data engineers through ongoing development efforts and enforcement of SDLC standards
• Act as point of contact for data-related inquiries and data access requests
• Contribute to decisions about tools, methods and approaches
• Innovation : Leverage the evolving technical landscape as needed, including AI, Big Data, Machine Learning and other technologies to deliver meaningful business insights

Minimum Requirements :

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 :

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.

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