Engineer - Python, Big Data, GCP - Next Generation Big Data

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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.

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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.

The U.S. Consumer Services and Enterprise Digital & Data Technology Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

Purpose of the Role:

LUMI is the company’s largest Big Data Platform, ideally suited for computationally and/or data intensive processing applications. Whether the data needs to be processed in batch, online, or streaming manner, Lumi provides robust capabilities to handle such workloads effectively, in a cost-efficient manner.

A hub of very hardworking Big Data engineers and most exciting & upcoming technologies. Cornerstone platform offers an environment where Engineers are challenged every day to build world class products.

As we embark on the journey to move to public cloud - GCP you will be part of a fast-paced Agile team, design, develop, test, troubleshoot & optimize solutions created to simplify access to the Amex’s Big Data Platform. 

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Software Development

• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing
• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Automate deployments in test or production environments
• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections
• Architect, design, develop and maintain enterprise capabilities and systems.
• Collaborate with team/s in agile environment on creating, evolving, and maintaining engineering excellence principles related to Code, Code reviews, Testing methodologies (Unit, Integration etc.,) and defect management
• Developing prototypes using visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts.
• Seeks continuous improvement by considering solutions that make novel use of existing ideas, approaches, technologies, or products.
• Works with Senior engineers and product owners to deliver new features and enhance existing features.

Qualifications :

* 7 + years of experience designing, building, and implementing distributed cloud architecture within cloud environments. GCP preferred.

* Provisioning, Network configuration for compute resources (ie. Google Compute Engine, Dataproc), serverless networking, infrastructure orchestration, resource configuration.

* 3 + years of experience on GCP services like Cloud dataflow, Cloud Pub-Sub, Big Query, Cloud Storage, Cloud Dataflow, Google Composer etc..,

* Implement and maintain AI/GenAI services using Google Cloud AI services, e.g. Vertex AI.

*2 + years of experience in Model Deployment: Build and deploy end-to-end ML models, leveraging metrics to support predictions, recommendations, search, and growth strategies

* 2 + years experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Automation Tools approach using machine-readable definition files (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)

*3 + years experience with system performance - Monitoring, logging, and analyzing system performance (e.g., Prometheus, ELK stack, Icinga, Splunk, Dynatrace)

* Min 5 + years of experience with Installation and Configuration of Big Data Real Time Application tools such as Elastic Search, Kibana, Logstash, Tomcat, Solr, Apache HTTPD, JBoss etc. 

* Optimize cloud-based systems for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

* Monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and security.

* Understanding of fundamentals of Git and Git workflows.

* Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Ruby, PowerShell, bash)

* Experience of working in agile application development environment.

* Experience of supporting platform Engineering Activities, Network, firewall

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, 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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