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Senior Engineer - Cloud - Next Gen Big Data Platform Engineering

Phoenix, AZ, USA
Cloud Engineer Platform Engineer DevOps Engineer DevOps Leader
American Express
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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. 

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.

GCP LUMI 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. A hub of very hardworking Big Data engineers and most exciting & upcoming technologies. 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.

Organizational Context:
Member of Google Cloud Platform engineering team reporting to the Engineering Director

Responsibilities:

  • Evaluate, Design, develop & deploy LUMI Realtime capabilities.
  • Optimize & Advance GCP Real Time capabilities.
  • Provide guidance & solutions to migrate Legacy Big Data applications to  LUMI platform by effectively partnering with  Migration team and Application teams.
  • Instrument necessary tools to identify performance opportunities and develop solutions to mitigate.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 10+ Years of IT experience.
  • Deep working knowledge in Front End web server, Elastic Search, Reddis, Hbase/BigTable (All are required)
  • Proven Experience in solving platform/environmental issues for application teams.
  • Understanding of fundamentals of Git and Git workflows

Preferred Qualifications

  • Working knowledge of various GCP services Cloud dataflow, Cloud Pub-Sub,  Cloud Storage, Big Table, Speech to Text,  Google Composer etc.
  • Python Scripting experience 
  • Cornerstone Platform experience
  • Proven experience of supporting platform Engineering Activities, Network & Firewall
  • Terraform development experience  

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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

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