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Senior Data Engineer – AI & Intelligent Payment Platforms
Are you ready to help build the next generation of intelligent payment platforms?
American Express is making strategic investments in next-generation payment network products, data platforms, and AI-powered capabilities to support its global growth agenda.
The American Express Card Network operates as a highly distributed, near-real-time, low-latency platform designed for exceptional availability and resiliency—processing transactions around the world, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
As a Senior Data Engineer – AI & Intelligent Payment Platforms , you will help design, build, and evolve highly scalable, AI-ready data platforms that power critical payment capabilities and enable real-time intelligence, advanced analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI use cases.
You will work at the intersection of data engineering, distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and AI , helping transform large-scale payment data into intelligent, secure, and reliable products and experiences.
Design and build highly scalable, resilient, and low-latency data platforms supporting mission-critical payment workloads.
Develop distributed data processing and real-time streaming pipelines capable of handling high-volume transactional data.
Build AI-ready data architectures and pipelines that enable machine learning, Generative AI, and real-time intelligence use cases.
Explore and implement emerging AI capabilities, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, vector search, and AI agents , where appropriate.
Design and develop microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures using modern engineering practices.
Drive adoption of cloud-native technologies , containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, automation, and observability.
Establish engineering practices for performance, scalability, resiliency, security, data quality, and operational excellence .
Apply Responsible AI and data governance principles , including privacy, security, explainability, model evaluation, and appropriate controls.
Evaluate emerging technologies across AI, data, and distributed computing and translate them into practical solutions for payment platforms.
Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.
Partner with product, architecture, data science, and engineering teams to turn complex business opportunities into scalable technology solutions.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale distributed data platforms and systems .
Strong experience with NoSQL technologies such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, or Redis .
Experience with large-scale distributed data processing technologies such as Apache Spark .
Strong programming experience with Python, Java, Scala , or similar languages.
Experience designing data pipelines, data models, APIs, and event-driven architectures .
Strong understanding of distributed system concepts, including scalability, reliability, resiliency, security, and performance .
Demonstrated ability to solve complex engineering problems and deliver production-grade solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building AI/ML-ready data platforms supporting machine learning, Generative AI, or intelligent application use cases.
Familiarity with Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases/search, and AI agent architectures .
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