Big Data Senior Engineer I @ American Express

Desired Candidate Profile

American Express has embarked on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This is a great opportunity to join the CTO organization within American Express Technologies become the driver of this exciting journey

What we re looking for:

You re a talented, creative, and motivated engineer who loves developing powerful, stable, and intuitive apps and you re excited to work with a team of individuals with that same passion. You ve accumulated years of experience, and you re excited about taking your mastery of Big Data to a new level. You enjoy challenging projects and are cool under pressure. You re no stranger to fast paced environments and agile development methodologies in fact, you embrace them. With your strong analytical skills, your unwavering commitment to quality, your excellent technical skills, and your collaborative work ethic, you ll do great things here at American Express.

Purpose of the Role:

Cornerstone is company s largest Big Data Platform, ideally suited for computationally and/ or data intensive processing applications. Whether the data needs to be processed in batch, online, or streaming manner, Cornerstone provides robust capabilities to handle such workloads effectively, in a cost efficient manner.

A hub of highly talented Big Data engineers providing production supportand most exciting & upcoming technologies such as HBase, Couchbase, Spark, Structured Streaming, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Java APIs, Scala, Python, Pig, Hive etc, Cornertone platform offers an environment where Engineers are challenged everyday to build world class products

Responsibilites:

There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here s just some of what you ll be doing:

As a part of our team, you will be developing innovative, high quality, and robust operational engineering capabilities.

Working to triage outages & defects and resolve them within established SLA's

Work with Application Developers and Solution Architects to identify areas to improve operational and supportability model as part of continuous improvement and maturing Cornerstone Production Operation function

Implement monitoring and alerting solutions to provide insight into overall platform health

Provide timely communication to stakeholders and users on issue status and resolution

Lead and mentor team members across our Operations Team by delegating routine and project tasks

Collaborate with other software engineering teams, design team, product owners and managers, and business stakeholders.

Develop software in our technology stack which is constantly evolving but currently includes Python, Spark , Unix Shell Script, Tableau, Java Script etc.

Qualifications Qualification

Education Bachelor or Masters Degree in Computer Science
or related field

8 years of software development experience with proven
hands on experience in Big Data technologies

Experience with design and coding across one or more
platforms and languages as appropriate

Hands on expertise with application design, software
development and automated testing

Ability to effectively interpret technical and business
objectives and challenges, and articulate solutions

Strong programming knowledge in Java/ Python

Experience working on any Hadoop distribution, such as
Mapr, Cloudera, Hortonworks and have at least coded in Hive, Java M/ R, Spark,
SQL & No SQL databases for 2 years or more, will be an added advantage.

Solid understanding of data structures, Algorithms &
Design Patters will be an added advantage

Strong experience with UNIX / Shell / Python scripting

Understanding of different Algorithms & Machine
Learning techniques (Neural Network, Deep Learning, Supervised &
Unsupervised, Regression, Classification) and their application in
batch/ real time will be an added advantage

Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development
methods

Implementation or working experience of Continuous
Integration and Continues Delivery using tools and automation capabilities such
as JUnit, Mocking, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, Stash and Jira

Experience in Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Dockerization,
etc) , will be an added advantage.

Strong analytical ability

Excellent communication skills

Excellent team player with ability to work with global team

Schedule (Full Time/ Part Time) : Full time

Date Posted: Mar 11, 2019, 10:11:39 AM

Education:

UG:   Any Graduate

PG:  Post Graduation Not Required

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Keyskills:   SQL Unix Automation Python Application development Data structures Agile Coding Monitoring JIRA