American Express

Vice President Technology - NextGenBigData

Posted On

May 15, 2025

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

June 29, 2025

Job Description

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. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this 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 are seeking a visionary and highly motivated Vice President of Engineering to lead our Big Data Application Services organization. In this pivotal role, you will guide the engineering, solutions, and central replatforming teams, driving the transformation of our data engineering capabilities and the evolution toward our next gen big data platform.

The ideal candidate is a strategic and innovative leader with a strong engineering background, deep expertise in big data technologies-especially on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and a passion for advancing data observability, replatform acceleration, and cutting-edge data engineering solutions.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Define and execute a strategic roadmap for the Big Data Application Services, aligning with overall business objective and leading the transition to next-generation big-data platform
Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering, solutions and replatforming teams. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, engineering excellence, and continuous learning
Drive the architecture, design and implementation of scalable, reliable and optimized data engineering capabilities and practices on Google Cloud Platform
Champion best practices in software engineering, data engineering and operations within the big data ecosystem.
Implement comprehensive data observability strategies and tools to ensure data quality, reliability and performance across the platform.
Oversee the development and deployment of advanced data engineering and transformation capabilities, enabling sophisticated data analysis, business intelligence and machine learning use cases. Partner with stakeholders to define and deliver enterprise-wide impactful data solutions.
Work closely with product management, federated data teams, data science, analytics teams, and other business units to understand data needs and deliver solutions that drive business value.
Work with peers, Principal Engineers and Principal Architects to assimilate emerging trends and technologies in the big data, cloud, and analytics landscape. Evaluate and introduce new tools and technologies to enhance platform capabilities and drive innovation.
Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at all levels across functions, from both technical and non-technical perspectives alike; able to lead business and technology conversations with SVP and/or EVP level business leaders

Qualifications

15+ years of large-scale technology delivery and formal management in a complex environment and/or comparable experience. With at least 7 years of experience in Big Data Technology delivery.
Strong systems integration architecture skills and a high degree of technical expertise, ranging across several technologies with a proven track record of turning new technologies into business solutions.
Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire, and manage multi-disciplinary engineering teams in a fast-paced, global environment.
Deep understanding and hands-on experience in designing and implementing secure, scalable, and cost effective GCP Big Data Services (e.g., BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Composer Airflow, Cloud Storage)
Strong knowledge of data observability principles, frameworks, and tools. Experience in implementing solutions for data monitoring, logging, tracing, lineage, and quality alerting.
Proven experience leading large-scale data platform modernization and replatforming initiatives. Experienced with replatforming tools and accelerators to streamline migration and reduce risk.
Expertise in designing and implementing robust and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data transformation.

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
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.

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