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American Express Data Engineer II - Public Cloud Database Engineer – DynamoDB, Cloud SQL, Big Table in Karnataka, India

Description

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Application partners to define, frame and capture business needs

  • Designing and implementing database migration from private to public cloud, new application onboarding to public cloud, solutions and adoption of latest cloud-native patterns

  • Participate in the database design and selection process, data modelling.

  • Deploying scalable and highly available databases in the cloud

  • Determining Identity and Access Management(IAM) policies for database connectivity and access control.

  • Provide internal analysis and support to ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded database performance

  • Conduct periodic Database performance and security assessments

  • Define best practices, standards, operational readiness, documentation , create logical and physical data models

  • Prioritize, complete, and oversee projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines

  • Responsible for the quality of deliverables in terms of the technical design, implementation, testing and adherence to technical compliance standards.

  • Develop tools that automate database processes, such as database provisioning or migration enabling database engineers and developers to do more self service.

  • Find opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.

Scope of Impact/Influence

  • Responsible for the Database platform and supporting technology

  • Leads the design, build, enhancement, and integration of database

  • Plays an integral role in building and enhancing database in terms of robustness, scalability, availability, and efficiency

  • Leadership accountability for team completing assigned tasks and delivery of quality work

Education & Technology core competencies

  • Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field required, advanced degree preferred.

  • 3 years of database development experience in a public cloud environment and/or comparable experience.

  • Hands-on experience handling operational tasks of Nosql (DynamoDB, Bigtable, Cassandra, MongoDB) and RDBMS Databases( Cloud SQL, Aurora, Postgres) supporting and maintaining the production-grade environments, database upgrade/downgrade, capacity expansion, backup and recovery, performance tuning

  • Proficient in the public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure

  • As a part of core team member of cloud migrations, should contribute in application selection for the next waves of migration

  • Collaborate with the technology vendors, cloud partners to help build/implement versatile innovative solutions to secure workloads in public cloud environments

  • Good to have experience in Automation using Ansible for Database use cases like Migration, Upgrade , Patching etc

  • Practical experience with Data Architecture, 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

  • Preferred hands-on experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions

  • Strong problem-solving skills and a desire to learn through experience.

  • Experience in change management, Incident management, RFC, Problem management & RCA

Role Core Competencies Technical:

  • Database/Platform Domain Knowledge

  • Capacity Management

  • Change Management

  • IT Infrastructure

  • Team building

  • Requirements Gathering and Definition Leadership

  • Analytical Thinking

  • Coaching and Mentoring

  • Documentation & Technical Writing

  • Problem Solving

Qualifications

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

  • Competitive base salaries

  • Bonus incentives

  • Support for financial-well-being and retirement

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)

  • Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

  • Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)

  • Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

  • Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

  • Career development and training opportunities

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.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Job: Technologies

Primary Location: India-Karnataka-Bengaluru Urban

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24018157

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