American Express

Senior Data Architect

Posted On

May 29, 2025

Location

Gurugram, Haryana

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

July 6, 2025

Job Description

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. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this 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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

GTLS MIS & Analytics (within GS MIS) team provides analytical and reporting support to T&LS stakeholders in US and 22 international markets. The candidate will be part of Enablement team in GTLS MIS & Analytics team. The main objective is to provide support for automation and platform enablement, manage platform and data governance, ETL builds, Data Quality, BI & downstream data enablement in collaboration with tech organization.

Key responsibilities:

Understanding business use cases and be able to convert to technical design
Part of a cross-disciplinary team, working closely with other data engineers, software engineers, data scientists, data managers and business partners.
You will be designing scalable, testable and maintainable data pipelines
Identify areas for data governance improvements and help to resolve data quality problems through the appropriate choice of error detection and correction, process control and improvement, or process design changes
Developing metrics to measure effectiveness and drive adoption of Data Governance policies and standards that will be applied to mitigate identified risks across the data lifecycle (e.g., capture / production, aggregation / processing, reporting / consumption).
You will continuously monitor, troubleshoot, and improve data pipelines and workflows to ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness.
Reviewing architecture and design on various aspects like scalability, security, design patterns, user experience, non-functional requirements and ensure that all relevant best practices are followed.

Key Skills required :

2-4 years of experience in data engineering roles.
Advanced SQL skills with a focus on optimisation techniques
Big data and Hadoop experience, with a focus on Spark, Hive (or other query engines), big data storage formats (such as Parquet, ORC, Avro).
Cloud experience (GCP preferred) with solutions designed and implemented at production scale
Strong understanding of key GCP services, especially those related to data processing [Batch/Real Time] Big Query, Cloud Scheduler, Airflow, Cloud Logging and Monitoring
Hands-on experience with Git, advanced automation capabilities & shell scripting.
Experience in design, development and implementation of data pipelines for Data Warehousing applications
Hands on experience in performance tuning and debugging ETL jobs

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.

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