AI Platform Engineer II

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. The team's responsibilities span data integration supporting customers and internal business areas and AI platform development.

What You’ll Do on a Typical Day:

• Partner with technologists across the business to collaboratively solve problems.
• Demonstrate active mentorship and rising talent identification.
• Develop North Star vision for the domain in which they are focused.
• Demonstrate positive impact and leadership across scope of the organization.
• Serve as a specialist in architecting design solution patterns to any use case.
• Consider business needs, application needs and articulate to interested teams and partners.
• Demonstrate mastery of software design, shape coding methodologies that are scalable, resilient and stable.
• Possess a deep knowledge of the entire system and can jump into code in any component, fire fight and contribute.
• Expertise in professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Lead collaboration with key partners and contribute subject‑matter expertise to develop unique solutions to complex issues.

What We’re Looking For:

• Development background, infrastructure (AWS) knowledge, data awareness.
• 4+ years of experience for a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, 2+ years for a Master’s degree.
• Passionate and curious about AI in general, especially Agentic AI.
• Proven experience in data modeling, schema design patterns, and modern data access patterns (including API, streaming, data lake) and AWS.
• Familiarity with various cloud technologies and building data products to support batch and real‑time DS, AI/ML and deep‑learning applications.
• Independently designs, communicates, and executes architecture for moderately sophisticated data products.
• Strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies.
• Guides others in designing software that is easily testable and observable.
• Influences and contributes to product vision for the team.
• Proficiency in platform development using Python and/or Java.
• Experience with SageMaker or equivalent, feature store, dashboards, etc.
• Basics around LLM, guardrails, observability, RAG, Agentic.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Benefits:

• Health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources.
• Travel perks: choice of deals each week from major travel providers.
• Access to over 20,000 courses on the learning platform.

Equal Opportunity Statement: All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the hiring process.