Senior Data Engineer I
American Express4 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end database development lifecycle from requirements gathering and logical/physical design through development, testing, deployment, optimization, and ongoing enhancements.
- Create data models, database architecture specifications, technical designs, database objects, access patterns, and storage models for relational and NoSQL platforms.
- Implement database solutions across PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2 LUW, Cassandra, and Couchbase.
- Perform database performance tuning, query and execution-plan analysis, workload analysis, benchmarking, capacity planning, and scalability assessments.
- Design automated database deployment, schema migration, version control, release validation, rollback, and CI/CD processes.
- Develop database automation using Python, Shell scripting, Terraform, Liquibase, Git, and GitHub Actions or equivalent enterprise DevOps platforms.
- Design, deploy, optimize, modernize, and migrate database solutions using AWS and GCP managed database services.
- Engineer Cassandra and Couchbase data models, partitioning, replication, indexing, query patterns, consistency, and distributed data architectures.
- Ensure database availability, recoverability, resiliency, disaster recovery, security, compliance, monitoring, observability, and production readiness.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship while influencing database architecture, technology selection, engineering standards, and productivity improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in database engineering, database development, or Development DBA roles in enterprise environments.
- End-to-end database development experience spanning requirements analysis, logical and physical design, deployment, and performance optimization.
- Strong SQL development, query optimization, schema design, indexing, and execution-plan analysis skills.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2 LUW, Cassandra, and Couchbase.
- Deep expertise in at least two relational database platforms and practical experience designing and optimizing NoSQL solutions.
- Experience with database services and engineering practices in AWS and/or GCP.
- Experience implementing database changes through automated database CI/CD pipelines and schema migration frameworks.
- Strong understanding of database internals, transaction management, concurrency, locking, indexing, partitioning, and query optimization.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, technical documentation, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Preferred experience includes large-scale enterprise or regulated environments, high-volume OLTP systems, distributed database architectures, cloud modernization and migration, hybrid-cloud architectures, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, Terraform, observability, data integration, ETL/ELT pipelines, data engineering frameworks, governance, security, compliance, architecture assessments, benchmarking, and capacity planning.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives.
- Financial-well-being and retirement support.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits, depending on location.
- Flexible hybrid, onsite, or virtual working arrangements depending on role and business need.
- Paid parental leave policies, depending on location.
- Access to global onsite wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors, depending on location.
- Free confidential counseling through the Healthy Minds program.
- Career development, training, and leadership growth opportunities.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache CassandraAWSCouchbaseGitGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQLPythonSQLTerraform
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About American Express
American Express builds a global payments network and issues consumer, small-business, and corporate cards, plus merchant acquiring and travel services. Revenue comes from card fees, interest and lending, discount/merchant fees, and network services. Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York City, it operates the Amex acceptance network worldwide and offers co-branded cards and membership rewards across millions of cardmembers and merchants; ticker NYSE: AXP.