Senior Data Engineer - Next Generation Big Data
Senior Data Engineer - Next Generation Big Data
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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 youll 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.
Purpose of the Role:
Next Gen BigData Team (Lumi) is seeking a highly skilled Engineer to design build and enhance a Data Marketplace application that will serve as the central hub for discovering evaluating and managing enterprise data products. This role will be pivotal in building foundational capabilities for producers consumers and reviewers within our platform across several data marts integrating secure workflows metadata management data contracts and compliance validation.
The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strong architectural design skills and a product mindset ensuring our platform is scalable secure and user-friendly.
Focus:
Designs develops solves problems debugs evaluates modifies deploys and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications business applications and/or internal end user applications.
Organizational Context:
Member of an engineering team reporting to an Engineering Director.
Responsibilities:
Platform Development
Design develop and deploy the Data Marketplace application from the ground up including:
o Search & Review capabilities for data products (DPs)
o Reviewer dashboards with certification and validation workflows
o Data product and contract registry
o Integration of data quality results metadata and usage policies from multiple sources (e.g. BigQuery APIs Collibra Atlas)
Implement user authentication and identity validation for multiple personas (Producers Consumers Reviewers).
Build automated workflows for approval hierarchies (L1/L2/L3) and compliance checks against data risk management policies.
Integration & APIs
Architect and implement APIs for:
o Data product metadata ingestion and updates
o Data contract management (creation change requests approvals)
o Integration with enterprise data catalog and knowledge hubs
Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure interoperability with existing enterprise systems.
Data Governance & Compliance
Develop tools for automated policy validation and compliance monitoring.
Implement audit trails for data product changes and contract updates.
Support secure onboarding of new data products and producers.
User Experience & Dashboards
Partner with UX designers to deliver an intuitive web UI for diverse personas.
Create sample dashboards with metrics such as:
o of certified/uncertified data products
o of subscribers per data product
Ensure responsive accessible and performant user interfaces.
Collaboration & Leadership
Work closely with product managers data architects and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews.
Participate in sprint planning backlog grooming and release management.
Required Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field (Masters preferred).
7 years of software development experience with at least 3 years in a senior or lead role.
Proven expertise in building enterprise-grade full stack applications and API-driven platforms.
Strong proficiency in:
o Backend: Java Python Shell Script
o Frontend: React Angular or
o Databases: SQL (BigQuery PostgreSQL) and NoSQL
o Cloud Platforms: GCP AWS or Azure
Strong understanding of data governance metadata management and data quality frameworks.
Solid grasp of CI/CD pipelines containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and modern DevOps practices.
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment.
Preferred
Experience building marketplace-style applications or internal data discovery platforms.
Familiarity with data contract frameworks and data product lifecycle management.
Prior experience integrating with enterprise data catalogs and knowledge management systems.
Working knowledge of machine learning model integration(GenAI) for search and recommendations.
Familiarity with chatbot integration for Q&A functionalities.
Salary Range: $110000.00 to $190000.00 annually bonus benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately in determining your pay well consider your location experience and other job-related factors.
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
- 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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants including those with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws including but not limited to the California Fair Chance Act the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.
We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive professionally and personally. Thats 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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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
