American Express

Senior Data Engineer I

Posted On

Feb. 10, 2026

Location

Gurugram, Haryana

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

March 8, 2026

Job Description

American Express is a global services company and the world’s largest card issuer. Our direct relationships with many millions of consumers, businesses and merchants worldwide - combined with our innovative marketing, information management and rewards capabilities - enable us to offer an array of valuable services that enrich lives, build business success, encourage financial responsibility and create communities of people with common interests.

American Express for 9th consecutive year has been voted among India’s top 10 workplaces by the Great Place to Work institute. In recognition of our consistent performance, we were nominated to the Great Place to Work “Hall of Fame”.

At American Express, we serve customers, not transactions. We’re widely known for providing superior customer service and have been recognized for a number of achievements including being ranked highest in customer satisfaction within the credit card industry by J.D. Power for seven consecutive years.

A career at American Express is rich in experience and offers opportunities to build lasting relationships with our customers!

Join Team Amex and let’s lead the way together!

American Express is looking for energetic, high-performing software engineers to help shape our technology and product roadmap. You will be part of the fast-paced, entrepreneurial team that enables batch/ real-time analytical solutions using ground-breaking technologies to deliver innovative solutions across multiple lines of business's. Position requires a Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field. Good experience in data programming and applications systems design and architecture is required.

The position of Senior Data Engineer will be a part of a dynamic and growing team within the GRCT organization at American Express.

Mentors junior Data Engineers and multi-functional team of colleagues, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation
Leads and collaborates within Agile teams, support business and product changes, and prioritize features for ongoing sprints
Stays abreast of new database management system features and functions and drive adoption across Amex to use product capabilities
Provides guidance and support to junior engineers, fostering professional growth and development within the team
Converts logical data architectures into physical designs and spends significant time on database development and testing
Provides administration services for databases, data warehouses, and datamarts, and continuously improves database design and performance
Identifies and fixes database performance issues, ensuring optimal replication, high availability, and effective backup and recovery processes
Develops and implements standard practices for data management, security, and processes, and contribute to tool and method decisions
Enhances Big Data management strategies by designing and implementing advanced partitioning and indexing solutions
Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives
10+ years in data engineering, with a solid focus on GCP.
Proficiency in GCP services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer (Airflow), and Pub/Sub.
Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and ETL/ELT processes.
Data modeling experience, including dimensional, normalized, and canonical models.
Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (Python or Scala).
Experience with data governance, metadata management, and data quality.
Experience with CI/CD practices and DevOps principles.
Superb communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
Experience with Apache Beam, Spark, or Kafka preferred.
Experience with Collibra or other data governance tools preferred.

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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