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.
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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