Data Engineer III

The Enterprise Next-Gen Big Data Engineering team works horizontally with all use-case and business teams across the organization. Rather than owning a single application or business domain, the team identifies optimization opportunities, establishes engineering standards, designs reusable frameworks, and creates common platform capabilities that accelerate development and improve operational excellence within the American Express Big Data ecosystem on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

We are seeking a highly experienced and hands-on GCP Data Platform Engineer to improve engineering effectiveness, performance, scalability, and reliability of data platforms within the American Express Big Data ecosystem on GCP.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in GCP data services, distributed data processing, BigQuery, Apache Spark, Python, Airflow and software engineering, combined with practical experience building APIs and platform services using technologies such as Spring Boot and FastAPI on GCP.

Deep expertise in a specific business domain is not required. We are looking for engineers who possess strong fundamentals in GCP-native data engineering, can quickly understand unfamiliar systems, identify bottlenecks and architectural weaknesses, and design pragmatic solutions that can be adopted across multiple teams. Strong conceptual understanding of GenAI, RAG, LLM applications, and agentic systems is required, with hands-on experience being a strong plus.

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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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.