Engineer Agile

American Express is looking for a hands-on Engineer I in the Risk Decision Technologies (RDT) organization for the Data Engineering team. The RDT team is responsible for cross-domain, configurable platforms to enable best-in-class risk management and American Express growth with strong governance. The Data Engineering team is embarking on a journey to build Next-gen data platform to support critical Risk Business functions like payments authorization, new account fulfilment, credit collections and underwriting risk.

Risk Data Management (RDM) platform powers the risk assessment engine with large scale Big data, and highly available transactional data stores and also support data publishing capabilities. The platform also includes cloud native applications to support low latency, scalable and modular architecture.

This role of a Engineer will be an integral part of a team that designs and builds large-scale, cloud-native applications and drive us closer to the vision of a robust Risk data platform.

As a Engineer, you will:

• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)

• Participate in code reviews and automated testing

• Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation

• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments

• Automate deployments in test or production environments

• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections

• Typically spends 80-90% of time writing code and testing

• Build CICD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.

• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, quality assurance and testing, applying best practice methodologies and processes.

• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies & ideas in development / test area.

• Provide continuous support for ongoing application availability.

• Collaborate/influence within and across teams to create successes with an innovative attitude and challenge the status quo.

As a member 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 passionate engineers in an open, encouraging, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you are empowered to make decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex

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.

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.

If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e., 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J) in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

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

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Minimum Qualifications

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field (or has equivalent work experience).

• 6 years of experience in software development and quality assurance.

• 4 years of experience in Java development and building large scale distributed applications

• Wide breath of engineering experience in Java, Bigdata, Cornerstone

• Hands-on experience in Java

• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing

• Experience with Big data technologies and NoSQL database preferred.

• Demonstrated experience of writing applications for deployment on cloud environment including OpenShift and Docker containers

• Experience on RESTful API design and implementation is a plus

• Experience with automated release management using Maven, Salt, Git, Jenkins.

• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.

• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential

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.  

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.

If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e. 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J), in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

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