Job description 

Focus:

• Designs, develops, solves problems, debugs, evaluates, modifies, deploys, and documents software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.
• Organizational Context:
• Member of a product engineering or delivery and integration team reporting to a Senior Engineer, Engineering Director or Director Product Delivery & Integration.
• How will you make an impact in this role?

Software Development:

• Intermediate to advance level ability in software development, such coding assignments
• 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

Leadership:

• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking

Range of Impact/Influence:

• Accountable for team completing work you’re leading and work you are doing as agreed upon
• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work

Description:

• American Express is looking for energetic, high-performing software engineers to help shape our technology and product roadmap.
• You will be part of the fast-paced, entrepreneurial team that enables batch/ real-time analytical solutions leveraging transformational technologies (Hadoop/BIG DATA, Data Science - R, Python, Scala, SQL, UNIX, Shell Scripting) to deliver innovative solutions across multiple lines of businesses.
• Position requires a bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field. Good experience in data programming and applications systems design and architecture is required.
• Develops and tests software, including ongoing refactoring of code & drives continuous improvement in code structure & quality.
• Primary focus is spent writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews & testing in ongoing sprints or doing proof of concepts/automation tools.
• Applies visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts.
• Functions as a core member of an Agile team driving User story analysis & elaboration, design and development of software applications, testing & builds automation tools.
• Works on a specific platform/product or as part of a dynamic resource pool assigned to projects based on demand and business priority.
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
• Embodies rebel with a cause mentality by looking beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Qualifications:

• Support the Compliance and Operations Risk big data delivery team in India to lead and assist in the design and actual development of applications.
• Responsible for specific functional areas within the team, this involves project management and taking business specifications.
• The individual should be able to independently run projects/tasks delegated to him.
• Responsible for analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of system applications.
• Develop and maintain project related documentation,
• Provide system support and user support/training/communication for implemented applications.

Technical Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or Computer Science or equivalent OR master’s in computer applications or equivalent
• 3 to 7 years of experience within Data Engineering/ Data Warehousing using Big Data
• Expert on Distributed ecosystem including Map-Reduce, Hive, Spark (core, SQL and pyspark)
• Hands-on experience with programming using Core Java or Python/Scala
• Expert on Hadoop and Spark Architecture and its working principle
• Hands-on experience on writing and understanding complex SQL(Hive/PySpark-dataframes), optimizing joins while processing huge amount of data
• Experience in UNIX shell scripting
• Experience with NoSQL i.e., HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB is good to have
• Ability to design and develop optimized Data pipelines for batch and real time data processing
• Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, GCP is good to have
• Provides advanced knowledge of technical and functional principles.
• Should have experience in analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of system applications
• Demonstrated ability to develop and document technical and functional specifications and analyze software and system processing flows.
• Experience with GitHub/Bitbucket and leveraging CI/CD pipelines
• Creative problem solving (Innovative)
• Excellent technical and analytical aptitude
• Self-starter with a curiosity and appetite for new technology,
• Teamwork & ability to multi-task
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to influence and lead others
• Ability to coach and mentor,
• Excellent Project management skills.
• Results driven
• Willingness to understand the business and participate in discussions around project requirements