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Software Development
- Advanced level ability in software development
- Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
- Participate in code reviews and automated testing.
- Debug basic software components and identify code defects for remediation.
- Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
- Automate deployments in test or production environments.
- Automatically scale applications based on demand projections.
Leadership
- Opportunity to lead a small team of developers and empower them to achieve their potential.
- Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
Objectives of this Role
- Develop and implement data pipelines that extracts, transforms, and loads data into an information product that helps to inform the organization in reaching strategic goals.
- Work on ingesting, storing, processing, and analyzing large data sets.
- Create scalable and high-performance web services for tracking data.
- Translate complex technical and functional requirements into detailed designs.
- Investigate and analyze alternative solutions to data storing, processing etc. to ensure most streamlined approaches are implemented.
- Develops and tests software, including ongoing refactoring of code & drives continuous improvement in code structure & quality.
- Primary focus is spent writing code, API specs, conducting code reviews & testing in ongoing sprints or doing proof of concepts/automation tools.
- Functions as a core member of an Agile team driving User story analysis & elaboration, design and development of software applications, testing & builds automation tools.
- Works on a specific platform/product or as part of a dynamic resource pool assigned to projects based on demand and business priority.
- Finds opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Over all 6-8 years of experience in Hadoop & Big Data along with 2-3 year of experience in AWS Cloud.
- Demonstrated experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods.
- Minimum 4 years of experience with Big Data Components/Frameworks (Hadoop, HBase, MapReduce, HDFS, Pig, Hive, Sqoop, Flink, oozie, Flink, Spark, etc.) and java programming languages.
- Experience in AWS Redshift, Lake house, Database Migration Service, Glue, EMR, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), S3, Relational
- Expert on Distributed ecosystem
- Hands-on experience with programming using Core Java or Python/Scala
- Expert on Hadoop and Spark Architecture and its working principle
- Hands on working experience on Hive, Shell scripting.
- Understanding of data warehousing and data modeling techniques
- Strong data engineering skills on the AWS Cloud Platform is essential.
- Hands-on expertise with application design, software development, and automated testing
- Must have 3+ years of demonstrated experience leading teams of engineers.
- Experience with RESTful web services, open API development, and SOA concepts
- Experience with parallel and distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, message queuing, and relational databases.
- Knowledge of Travel data is a plus.
- Ability to design and develop optimized Data pipelines for batch and real time data processing using Spark/Flink.
- Should have experience in analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of system applications.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and document technical and functional specifications and analyze software and system processing flows.
- Excellent technical and analytical proficiency
- Good communication skills
- Excellent Project management skills.
- Results driven.
Location
United States - Arizona - Scottsdale
The US national annual base salary range for this position is from $85,000 to $170,000. The national range provided includes the base salary that GBT expects to pay for the role. Actual base salary will be based on factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, knowledge, and work location.
In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for our Annual Incentive Award plan, which rewards participants based on company and individual performance. For information about our comprehensive US benefits programs and eligibility, please review our Benefits-at-a-Glance document.
Benefits at a glance
The #TeamGBT Experience
Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.
Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and more.
Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.
Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with global tuition assistance, access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.
We strive to champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in every aspect of our business at GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global Inclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.
Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health for you and your immediate family.
And much more!
All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, gender identity (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, veteran status, citizenship or marital status. It is our policy to maintain an equal-opportunity environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias for our candidates, colleagues, clients and suppliers.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please, let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the hiring process. For more details, please consult GBT Recruitment Privacy Statement.
What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!
