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American Express Data Engineer - Couchbase/PostgreSQL in Sunrise, Florida
Description
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 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 #TeamAmex.
Key Responsibilities
Work closely with Product & Development teams to define, analyze and capture business needs
Documents data requirements and maintains data models to ensure seamless integration into existing data architectures
Manages data assets as per the enterprise standards, guidelines and policies
Documents processing requirements inclusive of data and transaction volumes, scalability, security and performance requirements
Creates and maintains detailed information about the data being stored in the database
Understands the database requirements and translate into physical database design.
Follows data placement procedures and re-use of existing databases when possible
Builds and enhances database design and infrastructure required to support the Business portfolio
Performs database design review and supports database testing
Provides production environment support for database systems and processes
Communicates and works collaboratively with business and product teams to support changes and implementation
Work on assigned database features for ongoing sprints and manage database requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues
Partner with delivery architects and engineers to design optional data tier solutions to meet platform objectives and goals
Function as an active member in an agile team through consistent development practices (tools, components, and documentation)
Identify opportunities to adopt innovative database technologies
Design & Develop Automation & Self-service Database capabilities utilizing CI/CD, IaC, AI/ML and GenAI technologies
Education & Technology core competencies
Master’s/Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field required, advanced degree preferred.
5 years of database development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience.
Hands-on experience handling database development activities using NoSQL Databases such as Couchbase, Cassandra, MongoDB databases as well as Relational Databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLServer covering activities including capacity planning, schema design & implementation, backup and recovery, performance tuning etc
Hands-on experience in developing Automation & Self-service Database capabilities utilizing CI/CD, IaC, AI/ML and GenAI technologies
Monitor the performance and health of the DB servers and troubleshoot DB system failures.
Good to have experience in Automation using any programming language and/or Ansible for Infrastructure use cases like Upgrade , Patching etc
Practical experience with Data Architecture to translate business data requirements into data models (Conceptual, logical, physical) and using data modeling tools.
Extensive experience in Linux based DB performance monitoring by using system tools, security setup, troubleshooting and performance tuning as necessary to ensure optimum performance, patching of Linux based DB servers on regular schedule
Experience with storage systems on one of the public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure preferred.
Supporting and maintaining logging, messaging and automation tools like Splunk, Grafana, Jenkins
Eager to learn new technologies in short time span preferred
Experience in change management, Incident management, RFC, Problem management & RCA
Qualifications
Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually bonus 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 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 work in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days).
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Job: Technology
Primary Location: US-Florida-Sunrise
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 24023099
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