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. 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. 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.
Responsibilities
- Contribute towards making the platform more resilient and secure for future regulatory requirements and ensuring compliance and adherence to Federal Regulations.
- Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions.
- Experience with managing large teams and balance multiple priorities.
- Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential.
- Conduct IT requirements gathering.
- Define problems and provide solution alternatives.
- Create detailed computer system design documentation.
- Implement deployment plan.
- Conduct knowledge transfer with the objective of providing high-quality IT consulting solutions.
- Support consulting team in different phases of the project including problem definition, effort estimation, diagnosis, solution generation, design and deployment.
- Understand issues and diagnose root-cause of issues. Perform secondary research as instructed by supervisor to assist in strategy and business planning.
Requirements
- Preferably a BS degree or equivalent experience in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline.
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Strong expertise with handling large volumes of data coming from many different disparate systems.
- Strong expertise with Core Java, multithreading, backend processing, transforming large data volumes.
- Working knowledge of Apache Flink, Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, open source data processing platforms.
- Working knowledge of databases and performance tuning for complex big data scenarios - Oracle DB and In Memory Processing.
- Cloud Deployments, CI/CD and Platform Resiliency.
- Strong experience with SRE practices, GIT Hub Automation, best practices around code coverage and documentation automation.
- Good experience with Mvel.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, teamwork mindset and ability to work through unknowns.
Nice-to-haves
- Understanding of Regulatory and Compliance Reports preferred.
- Experience with React, Node JS.
- Experience with GCP - Big Query and Data Flow, Data Migration to Bug Query and usage of CloudSQL.
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
