Senior Data Engineer II - Enterprise Data Platforms and Data Management - Enterprise Data & AI
About The Position
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. Enterprise Data & AI (EDAI) within Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) is driving the next generation of enterprise data management, governance, lineage, and AI-enabled engineering capabilities at American Express. We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Data Engineer / Technical Lead to help lead and scale our enterprise data lineage and metadata platforms supporting regulatory, operational, and AI readiness initiatives across the company. This role is ideal for an engineering leader with a strong blend of software engineering, distributed systems, data platform expertise, and innovation mindset who thrives in solving complex enterprise-scale problems. You will partner across engineering, architecture, governance, risk, and business teams to build scalable, cloud-native solutions that improve data transparency, lineage, interoperability, and automation across the enterprise. You will play a key role in modernizing enterprise data management capabilities through event-driven architectures, GenAI-powered automation, and reusable engineering frameworks.
Requirements
- Strong blend of software engineering, distributed systems, data platform expertise, and innovation mindset.
- Experience thriving in solving complex enterprise-scale problems.
Responsibilities
- Help lead and scale our enterprise data lineage and metadata platforms supporting regulatory, operational, and AI readiness initiatives across the company.
- Partner across engineering, architecture, governance, risk, and business teams to build scalable, cloud-native solutions that improve data transparency, lineage, interoperability, and automation across the enterprise.
- Play a key role in modernizing enterprise data management capabilities through event-driven architectures, GenAI-powered automation, and reusable engineering frameworks.
Benefits
- 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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
