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.

Focus:

Contributes to crafting, developing, trouble shooting, debugging, evaluating, modifying, deploying and documenting all data components (data architecture, logical and physical data models, database objects and database administration) that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Reviews data requirements / data stories and corresponding data sources and data architecture

• Documents data requirements / data stories and maintains data models to ensure flawless integration into existing data architectures

• Supports management of data assets as per the enterprise standards, guidelines and policies

• Reviews and understands the processing requirements inclusive of data and transaction volumes, scalability, security and performance requirements

• Assists in building and improving the database design and infrastructure required to support the Business portfolio

• Assists in performing database design review and supports database testing

• Provides production environment support for database systems and processes

• Communicates and works closely with business and product teams to support changes and implementation

• Function as an active member if an agile team through consistent development practices (tools, components, and documentation)

• Finds opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

• Takes part in reviews of own work or with colleagues

• Work on prioritized/assigned features for ongoing sprints

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

Up to 5 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:

• Understanding of Agile or other rapid application development methods

• Exposure to design and development on Cassandra

• Exposure Cassandra data model design.

• Configuring and building Cassandra clusters

• Comfortable in tuning Cassandra JVM and it’s parameters.

• Understanding Cassandra read & write path.

• Understanding and experience of usage of different compactions strategies.

• Experience on adding Cassandra nodes, rack & Datacenters.

• Expert on usage of nodetool, dsbulk, nosqlbench, sstableloader, sstableupdate utility.

• Expert on Linux os

• Expert in usage DSE Opscenter or any other tool that can monitor Cassandra cluster.

• Knowledge on usage of Ansible scripts

• Experience in writing ELF or Splunk queries and can build dashboards to monitor logs

• Understanding to newer app frameworks and their interactions with Databases

• DSE driver configuration

• Good understanding and technical knowledge of DBMS products and ecosystem – e.g. storage formats, access algorithms, data management processes, administration, data maintenance, replication, high availability, encryption, etc.”

• General knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational & non-relational databases

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related field required; advanced degree preferred

Knowledge/Skills:

• Able to understand and use data structures and associated components

• Basic understanding of Metadata Management and Database Management

• Able to understand and document business data requirements in complete, accurate, extensible and flexible logical data models using data modeling tools – ErStudio, ErWin

• Creates basic data models using the relevant tools and frameworks

• Basic understanding of XML and schema development/reuse, database concepts, database designs, Open Source, big data technology and NoSQL will be an added advantage

• Application of industry recognized methods, processes and standards

• Has understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, designing, building, testing, configuring and maintaining of assigned application(s)

• Able to participate in assigned team’s software delivery methodology (Agile, Scrum, Agile XP, Test-Driven Development, Waterfall, etc.) in support of data management and database development

• Familiar with infrastructure technologies and components like servers, jvms, databases, and networking concepts

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

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.

Job: Technologies

Primary Location: India-Haryana-Gurgaon

Other Locations: India-Karnataka-Bengaluru Urban

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24004125