Director of Big Data Technologies American Express
Itasca, IL

Job Description

Who we are?

Accertify and InAuth are leading providers of fraud prevention, chargeback management, device intelligence and payment gateway solutions to customers spanning diverse industries worldwide.

Together, we have demonstrated tremendous growth and value to our impressive list of merchants that we protect. This continued rapid growth creates additional opportunities to continue to grow the value we provide to our Clients in decisioning, community and big data capabilities.

Who you are?

Director of Big Data Technologies will be responsible for designing and developing the critical infrastructure required to operate and evolve our Machine Learning environment. The candidate for this role will have experience with technologies such as Hadoop, Cassandra, Java, python and other big data technologies to continue to evolve our algorithmic platform in the pursuit of fraud & Identity determination. With a background and skills in data science, applied research and coding, the candidate will run development of Machine Learning / Big Data projects and will be responsible for managing the infrastructure and data pipelines needed to bring models to production.

* Bachelor's Degree Preferred OR 3 Years' of experience with our technologies stack
* Programming experience in Python, R or Java
* Background in machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or Keras
* Knowledge of Hadoop or another distributed computing systems
* Experience working in an Agile environment
* Strong written and verbal communications

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.