Staff Engineer - Python, Scala, Spark, Cloud, SQL

Job Description

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.

Responsibilities

How will you make an impact in this role?

We’re looking for a Staff Engineer, Commercial Data Platform and Sales Enablement in GCS-Technology. In this role you will:

• Influence the technical strategy to optimize the scalability, resiliency, governance capabilities, and efficiency of our commercial data platform
• Perform hands-on architecture, design, development, and testing of foundational components and data pipelines
• Mentor data practitioners across our commercial ecosystem, enabling them to achieve technical excellence
• Partner across peer product/engineering leaders and commercial sales stakeholders to co-create innovative technical solutions to improve the efficiency of our sales organization
• Drive high-level & detailed technical designs and conduct designs & code reviews as needed.
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Expertise with public cloud (AWS/GCP)
• Experience with cloud based data warehouse and lakehouse software (ex. GCP BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks)
• Deep expertise with spark, python, scala, SQL
• Experience designing resilient data pipeline orchestration patterns (ex. Airflow)
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns for highly available and scalable distributed data systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience guiding data practitioners to build efficient, scalable data pipelines
• Experience partnering cross functionally to drive successful execution
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building unified data driven solutions with a data-lakehouse architecture
• Experience building event driven data streaming solutions.
  
  

About Us

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 our 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.

About The Team

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• 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
  
  

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.