Senior Data Engineer I
About this role
Senior Data Engineer I is responsible for the architecture, design, engineering, and optimization of enterprise-scale data platforms that power mission-critical business capabilities. This role transforms logical data architectures into scalable, resilient, and secure physical implementations across relational, NoSQL, distributed, and cloud-native database technologies.
The Senior Data Engineer drives technical excellence by leading database architecture, administration, performance optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational resiliency initiatives. Leveraging deep expertise in large-scale database systems, the role ensures optimal performance, scalability, security, and reliability while delivering highly available, cloud-native data solutions.
Working closely with Product, Architecture, Platform Engineering, and Business stakeholders, the Senior Data Engineer leads the adoption of modern data engineering practices, automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and emerging database technologies. The role is instrumental in advancing enterprise data platforms through sophisticated data modeling, query optimization, partitioning, indexing, and distributed data management strategies, enabling high-performance, data-driven applications at scale.
Company at a glance
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly striving to uphold our powerful backing promise to our customers and each other every day.
These beliefs have been our North Star for 170 years as our business transformed – from helping evacuate travelers during World Wars, to ensuring the safety of our customers’ funds during the Great Depression in the U.S., to creating the Shop Small® movement to help small businesses recover from the Financial Crisis, to providing aid to communities impacted by many natural disasters and so much more.
For generations, the key to our success has been the determination and resilience of our American Express colleagues. Now, as a globally integrated payments company, we work together to provide customers with access to products, insights and world-class experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Join us and let’s lead the way together.
Learn more about us at
https://www.americanexpress.com/careers
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https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/community-guidelines/
If you have a customer service issue or question, please visit www.americanexpress.com/contactus
Top Benefits
- Bonus
- Health Insurance
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