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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

You will be a member of a database management team closely collaborating with developers in application product teams. Your skill set should be NoSQL based (e.g. Cassandra &/or Couchbase) with experience of working on development projects.

You will undertake database designs, development support, solving technical database problems, troubleshooting, performance tuning as well as deployment & migrations for customer-facing operational applications (Not BI/DW).

Additionally, we develop and support a range of automation: for example migration tools. To assist with this, Java is an advantage.

The Senior Database Engineer's responsibilities includes:

• Setting out the database technology strategy for your portfolio. Researching and adopting new DBMS technologies - finding the right tool for the right job

• Partnering with Software Engineers to solve application use cases and support their need with consultancy.

• Designing and building physical database schemas (relational DDL, documents, column families, graphs, etc.) and optimizing databases for speed, scalability and availability

• Performance test, Benchmark, Troubleshooting and Optimization to tune the design.

• Keep up-to-date – e.g. cloud certification, explore and apply new tech and features.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bring Expertise in configuration, development, and administration of large, mission-critical database environments

• Apply knowledge and experience in using NoSQL technology for real world application deployment including in depth knowledge of Cassandra and/or Couchbase

• Ideally also bring experience in relational (e.g. Postgres or Oracle) and other NoSQL Technologies.

• Analyse application needs to select the appropriate database technology solution through experience, research and testing from the design phase through to production.

• Strong interpersonal skills (leadership, facilitation, stakeholder management, and presentation)

• Hand-on experience with Java and application coding practices.

• Knowledge of software/application architectures, in particular microservices, and how to design and deploy databases to support them

• Knowledge of database build automation techniques (e.g. Liquibase, XLR), data processing paradigms (e.g. ETL, replication).

• Experience in working with contemporary project and design methodologies (Agile/Scrum/Kanban, Domain-Driven Design)

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

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

Job: Technology

Primary Location: United Kingdom-London-London

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24002186