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Description

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

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.

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 Public Cloud Databases like AWS, GCP, and Azure is preferred.

• Supporting and maintaining logging, messaging and automation tools like Splunk, Grafana, Jenkins

• Eagerness 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 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 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. 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, but not limited to, 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 work in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days).

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Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Job: Technologies

Primary Location: US-Florida-Sunrise

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25008132