Senior Engineer - Big Data platforms - Cornerstone Big Data

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The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The American Express Big Data team is responsible for building and managing state of the art big data platforms, supporting data ingestion and transformation at peta-byte scale.

Role Description/Requirements

• Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large-scale enterprise BigData applications ensuring data quality meeting compliance & governance requirements to meet enterprise grade standards
• Expertise in optimizing BigData applications for performance betterment and resource utilization
• Expertise in designing and implementing auto-heal pipeline for system issues
• Expertise in Java, Springboot
• Hands on expertise in GCP, Pub-sub, Composer, Airflow, Big Query
• Hands on expertise working with Hybrid eco-system that combines cloud and on-prem infrastructure supporting migration
• Hands on working with cross-functional teams to deliver on system design and development for the needed requirements supporting various business units
• Experience with high level enterprise strategy and blueprints and convert into system deliverables
• Hands on expertise in RDBMS viz Postgres, MySQL
• Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
• Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
• Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the peer code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective.
• Experience writing software in Python, Java or similar.
• Expertise in pre-processing and cleaning large datasets for training models.
• Familiarity with data augmentation techniques to enhance model performance.
• Experience in deploying language models in production environments and integrating them into applications, platforms, or services.
• Exposure in building Predictive models using machine learning through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.
• Review architecture and provide technical guidance for engineers.
• Hands on experience with Big Data technologies (Spark, Kafka, Hive, etc.) and have at least 1 Big data implementation on platforms like Cornerstone,
• Exposure in building cloud-native platforms on modern tech stack: AWS, Java, Spring Framework, RESTful API, and container-based application.
• Ability to learn new tools and paradigms in data engineering and science.
• Proven experience attracting, hiring, retaining, and leading top engineering talent.
• Bachelor's degree with a preference for Computer Science

Technology Core Competencies

•  Hands-on engineer with expertise in Java, Python, Springboot,
•  Hands on expertise in GCP, Pub-sub, Composer, Airflow, Big Query
•  Hands on expertise in RDBMS viz Postgres, MySQL
•  Experience in streaming technologies such as Kafka, Spark Streaming, Pub-Sub
• High-performing Behaviors Be a productivity multiplier across multiple teams by  analyzing the work flow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results
•  Enterprise thinking - find opportunities to educate and learn from other groups, including mobile & web engineering teams
•  Solves technical problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities
•  Develop team's strategy and prioritize technology initiatives
•  Ensure frictionless CI/CD pipeline from the teams
•  Able to effectively communicate the concerns and capacity of the team to partners
• Introduces new and impactful technologies based on research, POC efforts and independent research

Minimum Qualifications
Core Competencies

•  Hands-on engineer with expertise in Java, Springboot, Microservices
•  Hands on expertise in GCP, Pub-sub, Composer, Airflow, Big Query
•  Hands on expertise in RDBMS viz Postgres, MySQL, Oracle
•  Experience in streaming technologies such as Kafka, Spark Streaming, Pub-Sub
•  Enterprise thinking - find opportunities to educate and learn from other groups, including mobile & web engineering teams
•  Solves technical problems outside of day-to-day responsibilities
•  Ensure frictionless CI/CD pipeline from the teams
•  Able to effectively communicate the concerns and capacity of the team to partners
• Introduces new and impactful technologies based on research, POC efforts and independent research

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related STEM field
• 10+ years of experience.

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• 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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