Staff Data Engineer, Commercial Data Governance

Job ID: 26013740Posted: 2026-09-10Location: Phoenix, AZ, United States; Atlanta, GA, United States; Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesSalary: $144250 - $256250 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefitsJob Function: Engineering & ArchitectureSchedule: Full timeShift: DayWorkplace: HybridCareer Area: TechnologyCompany: American ExpressDescriptionJoining 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.ResponsibilitiesWe’re looking for a Staff Engineer, Commercial Data Platform in GCS-Technology.Cultivate an environment of continuous improvement through technical guidance, coaching, mentoring, and feedback Lead the technical strategy to scale data risk management and data governance best practices across the commercial ecosystem Be a key leader on the effort to continuously improve the trust and reliability of our critical operational data-driven workloads Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and cross functional partners to deliver collaboratively Perform hands-on architecture, design, development, and testing Implement process improvements to streamline areas for your team such as hiring, onboarding, software delivery, and internal/external communication Drive and execute on high-level & detailed technical decisions QualificationsMinimum Qualifications Excellent written and verbal communication skills Expertise with a major cloud vendor (AWS/GCP) Expertise with spark, python, SQL Experience partnering cross functionally and being a hands-on leader to drive successful execution Strong understanding of data governance best practices and technical patterns to implement them at scale Preferred Qualifications Experience building unified data driven solutions with a data-lakehouse architecture Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.