Business Unit / Role Specific Info
The Enterprise Technology Services organization partners with every part of the American Express business to power the company’s growth and innovation with trust and efficiency, and drive competitive differentiation with speed. We support the delivery and operations of technology, digital, and data capabilities, platforms, and services globally. Specifically, our team is responsible for the company’s technology engineering, architecture, and infrastructure, providing 24x7 support to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality experience for customers and colleagues. We also provide product management for core enterprise platforms, and lead technology risk and information security, enterprise data governance and platforms, digital product and design, and enterprise AI platforms on behalf of the company.
At American Express, we empower future technologists to learn, innovate, and make an impact from day one. As a Data Engineer Intern in Enterprise Technology Services, you’ll join a 10-week Summer Internship Program and contribute to real-world data engineering initiatives that help teams build reliable, scalable, and well-governed data solutions.
Data Engineers help make data available, trustworthy, and useful for business, product, analytics, and technology teams. In this role, you may support data requirements, data modeling, data pipelines, database systems, big data patterns, cloud-native data tooling, and production support activities with guidance from peers and leaders. You’ll gain exposure to data architecture, database systems, modern data platforms, data pipelines, and agile engineering practices.
You’ll collaborate with engineers, product partners, data practitioners, architects, and business stakeholders to learn how enterprise data systems are designed, developed, documented, supported, monitored, and continuously improved.
About the Team
Enterprise Technology Services teams build and support technology that enables trusted, secure, and customer-first experiences across American Express. Data Engineering teams help design, integrate, optimize, and maintain the systems and pipelines that move data across platforms and products.
As a Data Engineer Intern, you’ll contribute at an early career level while learning how data requirements, architecture, database infrastructure, Agile delivery, data quality, lineage, governance, and responsible AI-enabled engineering practices come together in an enterprise environment.
What type of work can you expect? How will you make an impact in this role?
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Our team reviews applications on a rolling basis. We appreciate your patience while we consider your application and will contact qualified candidates regarding next steps.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.
As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.
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American Express is a global financial services company that provides credit card, charge card, and traveler's cheque services.