Sr Data Engineer - Financial Data Engineering
About The Position
As part of American Express’s Finance Technology Data Governance team, the Senior Data Engineer designs, develops, migrates, deploys, and supports scalable data and reporting solutions, and enables data governance across finance applications. The role calls for hands-on data engineering, cloud migration, data pipeline development, CI/CD, reporting, and production support. The engineer partners with business, product, and technology teams to modernize data and reporting platforms and deliver reliable, secure, high-quality solutions. The Technology organization supports the company’s growth strategies through global capabilities and services, maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability. This position contributes to finance technology modernization and governance through cloud migrations, workflow orchestration, reporting, automated controls, and operational support. American Express offers benefits intended to support colleagues’ physical, financial, and mental well-being, along with learning and career development opportunities. Work arrangements may be onsite, hybrid, or fully virtual depending on the role and business needs. Employment eligibility to work in the United States is required; American Express will not pursue visa sponsorship for this position.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience.
- Strong hands-on experience in data engineering, application development, and data migration.
- Strong understanding of data management principles and data governance.
- Strong experience with SQL, ETL/ELT, data modeling, and large-scale data processing.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP and cloud-based data solutions.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools.
- Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and supporting releases across environments.
- Strong experience with Git/GitHub, code reviews, branching strategies, dependency management, and vulnerability remediation.
- Hands-on experience with Power BI, including dashboard/report development and reporting platform migration.
- Experience with Agile, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Eligibility to work in the United States; the employer will not pursue visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and support scalable data pipelines and data processing solutions.
- Enable data governance across Finance Applications, including data lineage, data quality rules and reporting, anomaly detection, and controls.
- Lead and support data and application migrations from legacy platforms to cloud platforms, ensuring data integrity, reconciliation, performance, and stability.
- Design, develop, and support Apache Airflow DAGs and jobs for workflow orchestration and data processing.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate code builds, testing, deployments, and releases across environments.
- Manage Git/GitHub repositories, including branching, pull requests, code reviews, dependency management, and vulnerability remediation.
- Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports, including data modeling, visualization, performance optimization, and report validation.
- Support reporting solution migration and modernization while maintaining consistency in business logic, metrics, and outputs.
- Perform source-to-target mapping, data validation, reconciliation, and performance optimization for migration and development activities.
- Implement automated testing, monitoring, error handling, and operational controls for data pipelines.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and support timely resolution.
- Follow established Agile, DevOps, release management, security, and change management practices.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, business, and platform teams to deliver reliable and maintainable solutions.
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 of paid parental leave for all parents, including for pregnancy, adoption, or surrogacy
- Free access to global onsite wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors, depending on location
- Free and confidential counseling support through the Healthy Minds program
- Career development and training opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
