Senior Data Engineer: Lead Enterprise-Scale Data Platforms

American Express; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express is seeking a Senior Data Engineer I to architect, design, and optimize enterprise-scale data platforms powering critical business capabilities. You will translate logical data models into scalable physical implementations across relational, NoSQL, distributed, and cloud-native databases.

You will lead database architecture, performance optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, and observability efforts, partnering with Product, Architecture, Platform Engineering, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and coach Data Engineers while fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement across engineering teams.
• Lead Agile teams with Product, Architecture, and Business stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and drive adoption of modern features and cloud-native services.
• Design and implement scalable data models supporting high-performance enterprise data platforms.
• Engineer, administer, and optimize relational, NoSQL, and cloud-native databases for scalability and reliability.
• Lead database performance optimization including SQL tuning, indexing, partitioning, and capacity planning.
• Design and maintain highly available database architectures with backup and disaster recovery.
• Establish enterprise standards for data architecture, security, governance, automation, and best practices.
• Develop IaC solutions to provision and manage database platforms efficiently.
• Design and optimize Big Data platforms with advanced data modeling and distributed management.
• Collaborate to integrate data platforms with cloud-native apps, CI/CD, and containerized environments.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, and Business teams to align data platform capabilities with business goals.
• Lead root-cause analysis for production incidents and drive reliability improvements.
• Influence technical direction and modernization initiatives across data platforms.

Skills

Enterprise data platforms

SQL optimization

Python

Data modeling

ETL/ELT development

Cloud-native databases

Agile methodologies

IaC automation

Observability/SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Information Systems

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Linux

Job description

American Express is seeking a Senior Data Engineer I to architect, design, and optimize enterprise-scale data platforms powering critical business capabilities. You will translate logical data models into scalable physical implementations across relational, NoSQL, distributed, and cloud-native databases.

You will lead database architecture, performance optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, and observability efforts, partnering with Product, Architecture, Platform Engineering, and