American Express - SQL Developer

Database Developer is needed in Phoenix, United States.

Client: American Express

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Contract: undefined

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.

This role is responsible for contacting clients with overdue accounts to secure settlement, as well as taking preventive steps to avoid future overdue accounts with high exposure. The focus is on architecting and engineering data access security controls for managing, monitoring, measuring, and reporting the data access security posture of the organization’s data estate, especially for semi-structured and unstructured data hosted on various platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance SQL pipelines for processing and transforming large volumes of data from multiple sources.
• Optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and views for performance and scalability.
• Build and manage ETL/ELT workflows (on-prem and/or cloud) for reliable and automated data ingestion and transformation.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into data models and pipeline solutions.
• Develop custom scripts and automation workflows for deprovisioning access based on leavers or transfer events, and usage inactivity.
• Ensure data pipelines are reliable, documented, and monitored with proactive alerting and logging.
• Drive improvements in data quality, availability, and governance.
• Stay up to date with emerging data engineering tools and practices, recommending adoption where it adds value.

Requirements

• 3 years of hands-on experience in SQL development (query optimization, stored procedures, indexing strategies, partitioning).
• Solid understanding of data modeling techniques (star schema, snowflake schema, normalization/denormalization).
• Proven ability to work with large-scale relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc.).
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on performance tuning and scalability.
• Experience with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines for data workflows.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Security (or equivalent work experience).
• 4+ Years of hands-on experience.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Azure Synapse).
• Knowledge of Java, Python or other scripting languages for automation.
• Exposure to data governance, security, and compliance best practices.

Additional Information

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits. The final salary will be determined based on location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We offer benefits that support holistic well-being, including competitive salaries, bonus incentives, a retirement savings plan with a 6% company match, comprehensive medical and other insurance benefits, flexible working arrangements, parental leave, access to wellness centers, confidential counseling support, and career development opportunities.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and ensures decisions are made without regard to any protected status. Employment eligibility to work in the US is required, and American Express will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.