**Description** **You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.** With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally. At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong. Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together. **What are we looking for?** Proven current development DBA experience. Strong understanding of backups, disaster recovery, high availability and failover design concepts. Experience in collaborating with development teams to design and optimize database schemas and queries with ability to guide application teams in debugging performance issues. Proven experience of configuring databases for optimal performance and resource utilization and ability to make decisions on capacity planning and sizing. Knowledge of database monitoring solutions and ability to debug and address replication, failover or performance issues. Candidate should have these skills on EITHER: NoSQL – Couchbase 7, or Cassandra OR RDBMS – Oracle19c or later, or Postgres 15 (SQL Server a bonus) Candidates must be self-motivated and willing to pick up new database challenges, with an ability to think outside the box. Must be prepared to work outside normal working hours from time to time. The ideal candidate must have good communication skills in English DevOps skills (GIT, Liquibase, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins), and knowledge of database implementation on the Cloud, would be a bonus. Demonstrable experience in implementing and/or managing such systems in 1 or more database technologies. **How will you make an impact in this role?** We are looking for someone to grow into supporting current and emerging database technologies, working closely with applications teams to design performant, secure and scalable database solutions. The successful candidate must be able to understand the business need and the best way to make this a reality. **Minimum Qualifications** Graduate/ Postgraduate qualifications in an IT related area. Significant experience of working with Databases to good level and ideally previously worked in financial company / fintech. **Preferred Qualifications** Current Certifications in the relevant database technologies. **Qualifications** We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include: + Competitive base salaries + Bonus incentives + Support for financial-well-being and retirement + Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) + Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need + Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) + 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 Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations. **Job:** Technologies **Primary Location:** United Kingdom-London-London **Schedule** Full-time **Req ID:** 24014488