Sr Data Engineer I - Global Commercial Services

Atlanta, GA, United States(Hybrid)

Job Description

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company's growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex's customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

Global Commercial Services (GCS) serves millions of business customers around the world, from mom-and-pop shops to approximately 70% of the S&P 500. We are the number one issuer of small business cards, the industry leader in corporate T&E and represent approximately 40% of the company's total revenues. Our vision is to be essential to our customers' businesses every day. We do that by offering a diverse suite of payment and cashflow tools our customers need to run and grow their businesses, from a wide range of traditional card products, to working capital and supply chain financing, to new digital solutions that make it easy for our customers to manage their financial and payment needs.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, enhance, and support critical mainframe jobs that ingest data into the corporate data platform. Provide scheduled on-call support to ensure platform health, availability, and operational stability.
• Partner closely with product teams during discovery, analysis, development, and testing to deliver requirements effectively. Enhance mainframe jobs as needed to support organization-wide project initiatives.
• Lead modernization architecture and design planning by applying deep expertise in Cobol, DB2, VSAM, DB2 Utilities, JCL, SORT, TSO, DASD, Expeditor, File-Aid, Control-M, Topaz-ISPW, XLR Utilities to support target-state migration to Spark and Airflow.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code while reviewing and debugging code authored by others. Identify automation opportunities that improve operational stability, efficiency, and system reliability.
• Apply SDLC toolchain expertise, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to increase the value of automation at scale. Participate in technology training and knowledge transfer activities to strengthen team capability.
• Plan and Implement the DR exercises for Mainframe applications twice an year.
• Participate in daily standups, sprint planning, and troubleshooting sessions.

Qualifications

• Atleast 10 Years of extensive hands on experience in mainframe technologies and tools, including Cobol, DB2, VSAM, DB2 Utilities, JCL, SORT, TSO, DASD, Expeditor, File-Aid, Control-M, Topaz-ISPW, XLR.
• Atleast 5 years of experience in scala, python, spark, and PL-SQL.
• Experience working on databases like Oracle, MS SQL, MaprDB, BigQuery.
• Proven experience in managing large-scale mainframe implementations and systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills for Mainframe batch applications.
• Experience in financial services, large scala transactional systems.
• Bachelor's in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Preferred
• Experience with Cloud Technologies like Google Cloud.
• Working knowledge of Jira, Rally.
• Experience in using AI tools like Microsoft Copilot.

Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values ( and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

As part of Team Amex, you'll experience our powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• 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

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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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job Info

• Job Identification 26010365
• Job Category Technology
• Posting Date 07/29/2026, 08:44 PM
• Apply Before 08/05/2026, 05:00 AM
• Degree Level Bachelor's Degree
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day
• Locations 782 Peachtree Street NE (610), Atlanta, GA, 30308, US(Hybrid)
• Salary Range $123000 - $215250 annually + bonus + benefits
• Career Area Technology

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