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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.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

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.  American Express 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.  Find your place in technology on #Team Amex.

Key Responsibilities:

Partner with business, product, engineering and data science teams to unlock the power of leveraging data across Amex.

Partner with development teams in the data design of complex solutions and ensure that they are in alignment with the data architecture principles, standards, strategies, and target states.

Drive Data vision, strategy, and execution that meets the technology and business needs across complete Database development lifecycle including identifying the Right database for the need, Database design following all Functional & Non-functional requirements assuring Highly Available, Scalable and Performant solutions

Discover database requirements and translate into conceptual, logical, physical database design

Adopt industry leading Database technologies duly leveraging On-prem & Public Cloud to support best-in-class business capabilities to deliver secured, cost efficient, high performance computing and data storage solutions with cost efficiencies and collaborate in evolving enterprise standards & best practices

Be a thought leader around all things Data, reviewing current and future needs with big picture thinking

Communicates and works collaboratively with Product, Architects & Engineers to support deliver business priorities in an agile environment

Continuous learning & evaluation of DBMS features and functions to drive efficiencies & drive adoption

Contributes to decisions about tools, methods and processes

Required Skills:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related STEM field required; advanced degree preferred.

10+ years of Database Development with Architecture & Design experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience.

Demonstrated Hands-on experience on Relational & No SQL Databases on Public Cloud and On-Prem such as Postgre SQL, Oracle, Mongo DB, Couchbase, Cassandra etc including Database Design, DB Development lifecycle activities, Performance tuning, troubleshooting issues, Backup and recovery, Physical & Logical replication solutions including Golden Gate usage are preferred

Practical experience with Data Architecture, translate business data requirements into Conceptual, logical, physical data models by using industry standard Data modeling products like Hackolade, ERStudio etc

Experience with cross-team collaboration efforts including multiple development, infrastructure, engineering and production support teams in a dynamic environment.

Strong Experience in one of the public cloud platforms like AWS and GCP are preferred.

Experience supporting DBA activities for distributed/multi-tier systems and application development, including programming languages such as Shell, Python, Go, Java

Experience with Agile development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, including working knowledge of various tools in the CI/CD pipeline.

Experience developing tools for database automation

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills preferred

Experience and knowledge of data security and privacy concerns