AI Platform Engineer III

American Express Global Business Travel; Remote; USD 109,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel services company is seeking a Data/AI Engineer to drive excellence in Data/AI engineering practices. The role involves developing innovative data solutions, collaborating across technology domains, and influencing product vision. Ideal candidates will have over 8 years of experience (or 6 years with a Master’s), with strong skills in data modeling, AWS, Python, and Java. The position offers a competitive salary and flexible working benefits.

Benefits

Flexible benefits

Travel perks

Learning and development opportunities

Inclusive culture initiatives

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience for Bachelor's or 6+ for Master's.
• Proficiency with cloud technologies.
• Experience with BI, Reporting, and Analytics.

Responsibilities

• Develop data products supporting AI/ML applications.
• Architect design solution patterns for diverse use cases.
• Mentor and identify rising talent in the department.

Skills

Data modeling

Schema design

Python

Java

AWS

Machine Learning

Software Engineering Practices

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Sagemaker

Kubernetes

Job description

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

The team's responsibilities span data integration supporting customers and internal business area and AI platform development. We are looking for a talent with different skillset, a passionate technologist and dedicated to solving real-world business problems; to lead the excellence of Data/AI engineering practice.

What You'll Do

• Partner with technologists across the business to collaboratively solve problems.

• Demonstrates active mentorship and rising talent identification.

• Develops north star vision for domain in which they are focused.

• Demonstrates positive impact and leadership across scope of the organization.

• Serves as a specialist in architecting design solution patterns to any use case. Considers business needs, application needs and articulating to interested teams and partners.

• Demonstrates mastery of software design, shapes coding methodologies that is scalable, resilient and stable.

• Possesses a deep knowledge of entire system and can jump into code in any component and fire fight and contribute.

• Expertise of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

• Leads collaboration with key partners and contributes subject matter expertise to develop unique solutions to complex issues.

• Have good infrastructure knowledge (AWS, Kubernetes)

• Have some experience with Data (BI, Reporting, Analytics, Machine Learning and so on) would be a plus

What We're Looking For

NB: Development background, infrastructure (AWS) knowledge, Data awareness

• 8+ years for Bachelor's or equivalent, 6+ years for Master's

• Passionate and curious about AI in general especially Agentic AI.

• Proven experience in data modeling, schema design patterns and modern data access patterns (including API, streaming, data lake) and AWS

• Demonstrates familiarity with various cloud technologies and building data products to support batch and real-time DS, AI/ML and Deep learning applications.

• Independently designs, communicates and executes on architecture for moderately sophisticated data products.

• Has a strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies.

• Guides others in design of software that is easily testable and observable.

• Influences and contributes to product vision for the team.

• Proficiency in platform development using Python and/or Java.

• Have some experience of Sagemaker or equivalent, feature store, dashboards and so on.

• Has some basics around LLM, guardrails, observability, RAG, Agentic

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States

The US national base salary range for this position is from

$109,200.00 - $202,800.00

The national range provided includes the base salary that GBT expects to pay for the role. Actual base salary will be based on factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, knowledge, and work location.

For information about our comprehensive US benefits programs and eligibility, please review our Benefits-at-a-Glance document.

Benefits at a glance

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.

• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.

• And much more!

All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.

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What if I don't meet every requirement?

If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;” please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!