Senior Date Engineer Visa Sponsorship USA

Job Description

At American Express, innovation has been at our core for more than 175 years. Built on strong values, leadership, and an enduring promise to support our customers, communities, and colleagues, we’ve created a culture where your growth and well-being are backed at every step. As part of Team Amex, you’ll have the chance to learn new skills, expand your leadership potential, and create an impact that will shape the future of our organization. Here, your voice matters, your ideas carry weight, and your work helps define the next chapter of American Express.

Joining Amex Tech places you at the heart of big, transformative work. Our technology teams collaborate on groundbreaking solutions, leveraging cutting-edge tools while actively contributing to the wider engineering ecosystem through initiatives like open-source. With innovation, culture, and people powering everything we do, Amex Tech gives you the opportunity to build a career as dynamic as the solutions you’ll help create.

About the Role

The Next Gen BigData Team (Lumi) is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the design and development of a Data Marketplace platform that will become the central hub for managing, evaluating, and accessing enterprise data products. This role goes beyond engineering—it’s about architecting scalable platforms, embedding compliance processes, and ensuring a seamless experience for data producers, consumers, and reviewers alike. Your expertise will lay the groundwork for secure workflows, metadata management, data contracts, and policy validation across multiple data domains.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Development

• Build and deploy the Data Marketplace application from inception through delivery.
• Develop core features such as advanced search and review tools, reviewer dashboards, contract and product registries.
• Integrate quality and usage data from multiple sources (BigQuery, APIs, Collibra, Atlas).
• Establish approval hierarchies and workflows that ensure compliance with organizational risk standards.

APIs and System Integration

• Design and implement APIs for metadata ingestion, updates, and contract management.
• Enable interoperability with enterprise data catalogs and knowledge hubs.
• Partner with internal engineering teams to align with broader system architecture.

Governance and Compliance

• Create automated validation tools to ensure policy adherence.
• Implement robust auditing for all contract and data product updates.
• Secure onboarding processes for data producers and products.

User Experience and Dashboards

• Work closely with UX design teams to create interfaces tailored to diverse user groups.
• Deliver dashboards presenting adoption and certification metrics.
• Ensure accessibility, responsiveness, and reliability of all user-facing applications.

Collaboration and Leadership

• Actively engage with product managers, architects, and stakeholders to convert requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Lead code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to agile team practices such as sprint planning and backlog refinement.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ in leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success designing full-stack enterprise systems and API-based applications.

Proficiency in:

• Backend: Java, Python, Shell Scripting
• Frontend: React, Angular, or Vue.js
• Databases: SQL (BigQuery, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL platforms
• Cloud: GCP, AWS, or Azure environments
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata systems, and compliance frameworks.
• Strong background in DevOps, including CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes.

Preferred:

• Marketplace or internal data platform development experience.
• Knowledge of data contracts and product lifecycle management.
• Prior integration with enterprise-level data catalogs and knowledge hubs.
• Experience incorporating search intelligence or GenAI-driven recommendations.
• Understanding of chatbot functionality for user support.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual base salary: $120,000 – $210,000 (based on experience, role, and location)
• Performance-based bonus
• 6% company-matched retirement savings plan
• Comprehensive health, life, vision, and dental benefits
• Flexible working arrangements (hybrid, onsite, or remote depending on needs)
• More than 20 weeks of paid parental leave regardless of gender or parental status
• Free professional financial coaching and wellness programs
• On-site wellness centers staffed with medical professionals (at select locations)
• Confidential counseling resources via our Healthy Minds program
• Ongoing professional training and development opportunities

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

American Express is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair and inclusive hiring practices. We welcome qualified applicants regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, identity, disability, veteran status, or background. We also comply with all applicable state, federal, and local regulations, including those related to fair-chance hiring.

Work Model

Through our Amex Flex model, we empower colleagues to achieve balance while maintaining a collaborative culture. Depending on role and responsibilities, employees may work onsite, hybrid, or fully virtual

Visa Sponsorship

Depending on business needs, position requirements, and applicable laws, American Express may offer visa sponsorship for certain roles.