Data Engineers

American Express • Phoenix, AZ

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.
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.
American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. seeks Data Engineers to work with product teams to understand business data requirements, identify data needs and data sources to create data architecture, and support changes and implementation. Document data requirements and data stories, and maintain data models to ensure seamless integration into existing data architectures. Create and maintain information about stored data and understand database requirements and translate those requirements into physical database design. Build and enhance database design and infrastructure that supports the business portfolio. Perform database design review, support database testing, and provide production environment support for database systems and processes. Design database features for ongoing sprints and monitor database requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related STEM field
• 5 years of progressively responsible experience with database administration
• 1 year of experience with developing scripts for automating routine tasks
• 1 year of experience with designing algorithms and data flowcharts
• 1 year of experience with performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• 1 year of experience with data model design tools and IDE tools, including Eclipse and IntelliJ
• 1 year of experience with issue management system tools, including Jira and Backlog
• 1 year of experience with Source Control Management tools, including GIT
• 1 year of experience with Apache NiFi , API REST, Big Data, data structures, Elasticsearch, ETL, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Jenkins, JSON, Kafka, Kibana, Linux, NoSQL databases, performance tuning, Python, RDBMS, relational databases, Scala, Spark, Sqoop, Shell scripting, and Trino

Responsibilities

• work with product teams to understand business data requirements
• identify data needs and data sources to create data architecture
• support changes and implementation
• Document data requirements and data stories
• maintain data models to ensure seamless integration into existing data architectures
• Create and maintain information about stored data
• understand database requirements and translate those requirements into physical database design
• Build and enhance database design and infrastructure that supports the business portfolio
• Perform database design review
• support database testing
• provide production environment support for database systems and processes
• Design database features for ongoing sprints
• monitor database requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues

Benefits

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6%25 Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level