Senior Staff Engineer - Commercial Data Engineering

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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 company values 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.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.

Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.

Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.

And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.

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How will you make an impact in this role?

We’re looking for an experienced data engineering leader to join our Commercial Data Engineering organization. We build data-centric solutions to support all Global Commercial Services products, including B2B payments, large corporate clients, and our small and medium enterprise ecosystem.

You’ll design and build the patterns that enable us to responsibly scale our data platform and work closely across engineering teams and key stakeholders to set best practices and guide them on how to unlock the value of our data.

• Drive the technical strategy to optimize the scalability, resiliency, governance capabilities, and efficiency of our commercial data platform
• Lead the technical architecture and design of our cloud-native commercial data platform modernization
• Partner across commercial and enterprise-wide teams to deliver on our cloud modernization collaboratively
• Perform hands-on architecture, design, development, and testing of foundational components and data pipelines
• Drive high-level & detailed technical designs and conduct designs & code reviews as needed
• Mentor data practitioners across our commercial ecosystem, enabling them to achieve technical excellence

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, 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
• Experience implementing FinOps best practices in a cloud-based data processing system

Salary Range : $170,000.00 to $255,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include :

• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture.

Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

At American Express, we know that 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 company values 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 and let’s lead the way together.

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