About the position
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. Team Overview: Global Credit & Model Risk Oversight, Transaction Monitoring & GRC Capabilities (CMRC) provides independent challenge and ensures that significant Credit and Model risks are properly evaluated and monitored, and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) risks are mitigated through the transaction monitoring program. In addition, CMRC hosts the central product organization responsible for the ongoing maintenance and modernization of GRC platforms and capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Develop and Maintain Organized Data Layers to cater for both Production use cases and Analytics for Transaction Monitoring of Anti-Money Laundering rules.
- Manage end to end Big Data Integration processes for building key variables from disparate source systems with 100% accuracy and 100% on time delivery.
- Partner closely with Strategy and Modeling teams in building incremental intelligence, with strong emphasis on maintaining globalization and standardization of attribute calculations across portfolios.
- Partner with Tech teams in designing and building next generation data quality controls.
- Drive automation initiatives within existing processes and fully optimize delivery effort and processing time.
- Effectively manage relationship with stakeholders across multiple geographies.
- Contribute into evaluating and/or developing right tools, common components, and capabilities.
- Follow industry best agile practices to deliver on key priorities.
- Implementation of defined rules on Lucy platform in order to identify the AML alerts.
- Ensuring process and actions are logged and support regulatory reporting, documenting the analysis and the rule build in form of qualitative document for relevant stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with up to 2 year of relevant work experience.
- Strong Hive, SQL skills, knowledge of Big data and related technologies.
- Hands on experience on Hadoop & Shell Scripting is a plus.
- Understanding of Data Architecture & Data Engineering concepts.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to cater to versatile technical and non-technical audience.
- Willingness to Collaborate with Cross-Functional teams to drive validation and project execution.
- Excellent Analytical & critical thinking with attention to detail.
- Excellent planning and organizations skills including ability to manage inter-dependencies and execute under stringent deadlines.
- Exceptional drive and commitment; ability to work and thrive in fast changing, results driven environment; and proven ability in handling competing priorities.
Nice-to-haves
- Good to have skills - Python / Py-Spark.
Benefits
- 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.
