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Director - Data Engineering, Global Commercial Services Technology

Phoenix, AZ, United States

Job Description

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

Global Commercial Services (GCS) serves millions of business customers around the world, from mom-and-pop shops to approximately 70% of the S&P 500. We are the number one issuer of small business cards, the industry leader in corporate T&E and represent approximately 40% of the company’s total revenues. Our vision is to be essential to our customers’ businesses every day. We do that by offering a diverse suite of payment and cashflow tools our customers need to run and grow their businesses, from a wide range of traditional card products, to working capital and supply chain financing, to new digital solutions that make it easy for our customers to manage their financial and payment needs.

Responsibilities

• We’re looking for an Engineering Director, Commercial Data Platform in GCS-Technology. In this role you will:

• Cultivate an environment of continuous improvement through technical guidance, coaching, mentoring, and feedback.

• Lead the technical strategy to scale data risk management and data governance best practices across the commercial ecosystem

• Be a key leader on the effort to continuously improve the trust and reliability of our critical operational data-driven workloads

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and cross functional partners to deliver collaboratively

• Perform hands-on architecture, design, development, and testing

• Implement process improvements to streamline areas for your team such as hiring, onboarding, software delivery, and internal/external communication

• Recruit and retain engineering talent

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Expertise with a major cloud vendor (AWS/GCP)

• Expertise with spark, python, SQL

• Experience leading high-performing data engineering teams focused on iterative delivery

• Experience partnering cross functionally and being a hands-on leader to drive successful execution

• Strong understanding of data governance best practices and technical patterns to implement them at scale

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building unified data driven solutions with a data-lakehouse architecture

Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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 out Colleague Benefits Site (https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/colleagues/benefits) .

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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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Job Info

• Job Identification 26006808

• Job Category Technology

• Posting Date 04/27/2026, 03:57 PM

• Apply Before 05/04/2026, 05:00 AM

• Degree Level Bachelor's Degree

• Job Schedule Full time

• Job Shift Day

• Locations AMEX 18850 North 56th Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85054, US

• Salary Range $144250 - $256250 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits

• Career Area Technology