Senior Data Engineer I

Gurgaon, Haryana
Permanent
Full-time

3 days ago

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared 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.You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact-every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success. Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our and powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.Join Team Amex's Global Loyalty and Benefits organization and let's lead the way together.About the job:The position of Senior Data Engineer will be a part of a dynamic and growing team within the GRCT organization at American Express.Key Responsibilities:

Mentors junior Data Engineers and multi-functional team of colleagues, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation
Leads and collaborates within Agile teams, support business and product changes, and prioritize features for ongoing sprints
Stays abreast of new database management system features and functions and drive adoption across Amex to use product capabilities
Provides guidance and support to junior engineers, fostering professional growth and development within the team
Converts logical data architectures into physical designs and spends significant time on database development and testing
Provides administration services for databases, data warehouses, and datamarts, and continuously improves database design and performance
Identifies and fixes database performance issues, ensuring optimal replication, high availability, and effective backup and recovery processes
Develops and implements standard practices for data management, security, and processes, and contribute to tool and method decisions
Enhances Big Data management strategies by designing and implementing advanced partitioning and indexing solutions
Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives
10+ years of experience in data engineering, with a solid focus on GCP.
Proficiency in GCP services such as Big Query, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer (Airflow), and Pub/Sub.
Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and ETL/ELT processes.
Experience with data modeling, including dimensional, normalized, and canonical models.
Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (Python or Scala).
Experience with data governance, metadata management, and data quality.
Experience with CI/CD practices and DevOps principles.
Superb communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
Experience with Apache Beam, Spark, or Kafka preferred.
Experience with Collibra or other data governance tools preferred.

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.

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