Staff Data Engineer, Commercial Data Governance

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something

big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career

with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to

work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader

engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success.

Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth

strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s

customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to

ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides

the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation

through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

Global Commercial Services (GCS) serves millions of business customers around

the world, from mom-and-pop shops to approximately 70% of the S&P 500. We are

the number one issuer of small business cards, the industry leader in corporate

T&E and represent approximately 40% of the company’s total revenues. Our vision

is to be essential to our customers’ businesses every day. We do that by

offering a diverse suite of payment and cashflow tools our customers need to run

and grow their businesses, from a wide range of traditional card products, to

working capital and supply chain financing, to new digital solutions that make

it easy for our customers to manage their financial and payment needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

We’re looking for a Staff Engineer, Commercial Data Platform in GCS-Technology.

* Cultivate an environment of continuous improvement through technical

guidance, coaching, mentoring, and feedback

* Lead the technical strategy to scale data risk management and data governance

best practices across the commercial ecosystem

* Be a key leader on the effort to continuously improve the trust and

reliability of our critical operational data-driven workloads

* Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and cross

functional partners to deliver collaboratively

* Perform hands-on architecture, design, development, and testing

* Implement process improvements to streamline areas for your team such as

hiring, onboarding, software delivery, and internal/external communication

* Drive and execute on high-level & detailed technical decisions

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications

• * Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• * Expertise with a major cloud vendor (AWS/GCP)
• * Expertise with spark, python, SQL
• * Experience partnering cross functionally and being a hands-on leader to drive
• successful execution
• * Strong understanding of data governance best practices and technical patterns
• to implement them at scale

Preferred Qualifications

• * Experience building unified data driven solutions with a data-lakehouse
• architecture
• Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is
• required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
• 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
• * 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• * Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• * Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability
• benefits
• * Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending
• on role and business need
• * 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered
• for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• * 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
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• [https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/colleagues/benefits].
• 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. American Express will consider for employment all
• qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in
• accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including
• the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for
• Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring
• Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations,
• American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the
• consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.
• We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and
• personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that
• provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the
• important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and
• business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model
• (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
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