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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 lets lead the way together.

We are building an energetic, high-performance team with a nimble and creative mindset to drive our technology and products. American Express (AXP) is a powerful brand, a great place to work and has unparalleled scale. Join us for an exciting opportunity in the Marketing Data Technology (Mar Tech Data Team) within American Express Technologies. This team is specialized in creating and expanding suite of data and insight solutions to power the customer marketing ecosystem. The team creates and manages various batch/Realtime marketing data products that fuels the Customer Marketing Platforms. Being part of the team, you will get numerous opportunities to utilize and learn bigdata and GCP cloud technologies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for delivering the features or software functionality independently and reliably.
• Develop technical design documentation.
• Functions as core member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices with respect to tools, common components, and documentation.
• Performs hands-on ETL development for marketing data applications.
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing.
• Helps other junior members of the team deliver.
• Demonstrates analytical thinking - recommends improvements, best practices and conducts experiments to prove/disprove them.
• Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability.
• Learns, understands, participates fully in all team ceremonies, including work breakdown, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential, including substantiated ability to innovate and take pride in quickly deploying working software.
• High energy demonstrated, willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree with minimum 4+ years of overall software design and development experience.

4+ years of hands-on Software Development experience in Java, Rest API, Spring boot and Spark

Hands-on expertise with software development in Big Data (Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, HIVE).

BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical discipline or equivalent work experience.

Ability to implement scalable, high performing, secure, highly available solutions.

Strong Object-Oriented Programming skills and design pattern.

Familiarity with Agile or other rapid application development methods.

Experience with CICD pipelines, Automated test frameworks, DevOps and source code management tools (XLR, Jenkins, Git, Sonar, Stash, Maven, Jira, Confluence, Splunk etc.).

Knowledge of various Shell Scripting tools and ansible will be added advantage.

Good knowledge and experience with configuration management tools like GitHub

Strong analytical and problem-solving aptitude

Strong communication and analytical skills including effective presentation skills.

Preferred Qualification

Google Cloud Platform - Google Big Query, Google Big Table, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Storage

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
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• 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

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.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.