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Data & AI Senior Engineer - 90405345 - Remote

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

$126.20K - $166.30K/yr

This role is responsible for leading the design and delivery of complex data and AI solutions that power Amtrak's analytics, operational systems, and digital experiences. Senior Engineers apply deep ...

Data & AI Senior Engineer - 90405345 - Remote

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

$126.20K - $166.30K/yr

This role is responsible for leading the design and delivery of complex data and AI solutions that power Amtrak's analytics, operational systems, and digital experiences. Senior Engineers apply deep ...

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What is it like to work at Amtrak?

Amtrak operates with a customer-centric culture, prioritizing safety, reliability, and customer satisfaction in its daily operations. As a national passenger railroad service, Amtrak's workforce is comprised of various teams, including engineers, conductors, maintenance personnel, and customer service representatives, working together to ensure smooth train operations and excellent customer experiences. Working at Amtrak may appeal to individuals who value a dynamic work environment, opportunities for career advancement, and the chance to contribute to the nation's transportation infrastructure.

Do workers at Amtrak get paid breaks?

Yes. Most people get paid breaks.
91% of people say they get paid breaks.
Based on data from 64 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

Does Amtrak pay people when they’re sick?

Sometimes. Only some people get paid when they’re sick.
65% of people say they wouldn’t get paid if they were sick but scheduled to work.
Based on data from 81 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

At Amtrak, are sick days and vacation days separate paid time off?

Only some people have separate paid time off for sick days and vacation.
48% of people say they have to use vacation days when they’re out sick.
Based on data from 65 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

Is the health insurance from Amtrak affordable enough for their workers?

Most people say the health insurance costs are okay.
100% of people say the health insurance costs are okay
Based on data from 85 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

Do people get paid time off at Amtrak?

Most people get paid time off work.
85% of people say they get paid time off.
Based on data from 78 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

How far ahead of time do people find out their work schedule?

Most people find out their schedule less than four weeks ahead of time.
  • 58% of people with changing schedules find out their shifts one week or less ahead of time.
  • 14% of people with changing schedules find out their shifts two weeks ahead of time.
  • 2% of people with changing schedules find out their shifts three weeks ahead of time.
  • 26% of people with changing schedules find out their shifts four weeks or more ahead of time.

Based on data from 43 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and April 2026.

Do workers at Amtrak worry about hours?

Most people don’t worry about getting enough hours.
88% of people report they don’t worry about getting enough hours.
Based on data from 60 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between April 2025 and April 2026.

Do Amtrak workers get to choose the shifts they work?

Some people don’t get to choose which shifts they work.
64% report that they don’t have enough control over which shifts they work.
Based on data from 50 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between April 2025 and April 2026.

How easy is it for Amtrak workers to change shifts?

Most people find it hard to change shifts.
79% of people report that it’s hard to change shifts if they need to.
Based on data from 42 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between April 2025 and March 2026.

How easy is it to get time off at Amtrak?

Most people find it easy to get time off.
80% of people report it’s easy to get time off.
Based on data from 82 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

Do Amtrak managers change schedules at the last minute?

Most managers don’t change people’s schedules at the last minute.
84% of people say their manager doesn’t change their shift schedule at the last minute.
Based on data from 61 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between April 2025 and April 2026.

Do workers at Amtrak do extra work that they don't get paid for?

Rarely. Most people don’t do unpaid extra work.
85% of people report that they don’t do extra unpaid work.
Based on data from 59 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between April 2025 and April 2026.

How easy is it to take sick days at Amtrak?

Most people find it easy to take sick days.
68% of people report that it’s easy to take time off if they are sick.
Based on data from 81 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

Is working at Amtrak good if you’re a parent or caregiver?

Most parents and caregivers say this is a good place to work.
73% of people who care for a child or other relative report this is a good place to work.
Based on data from 33 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and April 2026.

Do people at Amtrak feel treated with respect by their managers?

Most people feel treated with respect by their managers.
79% of people say they’re treated with respect by their managers.
Based on data from 81 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between April 2025 and April 2026.

Do people at Amtrak get to take their breaks without interruption?

Most people get breaks without interruption.
71% of people report that they get to take their breaks without interruption.
Based on data from 63 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

Is it stressful to work at Amtrak?

Some people feel stressed out here.
46% of people say they often feel stressed out at work.
Based on data from 83 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

Do people at Amtrak enjoy their jobs?

Most people enjoy their job.
86% of people report they enjoy their job.
Based on data from 70 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between April 2025 and April 2026.

Do people at Amtrak recommend working with their team?

Only some people recommend working with their team.
35% of people report that they wouldn’t recommend working with their immediate team to a friend.
Based on data from 88 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

Do people get enough training when they start at Amtrak?

Most people got enough training when they started.
76% of people report they got enough training when they started working here.
Based on data from 86 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

Do people get support to advance at Amtrak?

Most people are given support to advance their career here.
In the last year, 69% of people report being given support to advance their career here.
Based on data from 81 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

Do people think Amtrak’s headquarters understands what’s happening where they work?

Most people think headquarters doesn’t understand what’s happening where they work.
86% of people think that this employer’s headquarters or owners don’t have a good understanding of what’s really happening where they work.
Based on data from 81 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.

Do workers feel well informed about how Amtrak is doing?

Only some people feel well informed about how the company is doing.
48% of people feel that they aren’t kept well informed about how the company is doing as a whole.
Based on data from 77 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between May 2025 and May 2026.
What other companies are hiring for Senior Systems Developer jobs?
Infographic showing various Senior Systems Developer job openings at Amtrak in the United States as of May 2026, with employment types broken down into 99% Full Time, and 1% Part Time. Highlights an 91% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 7% Remote job distribution.
Sr Mgr Sys Design & Dev S4/HANA SAP - DC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Wilmington

Sr Mgr Sys Design & Dev S4/HANA SAP - DC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Wilmington

Amtrak

Philadelphia, PA

Other

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 16 days ago


Amtrak rating

7.9

Company rating: 7.9 out of 10

Based on 140 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

23rd of 76 rated public transport


Job description

Your success is a train ride away!

As we move America's workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

Are you ready to join our team?

Our values of 'Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First' are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, 'Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security' are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

Job Summary

The Sr. Manager, IT Systems Design & Development owns one or more IT processes within one technical area. The position manages services provided to one or more internal and external customer(s). The Senior Manager IT, Systems Design & Development will be working on multiple projects as a technical delivery team owner, and sometimes as a project leader while managing matrixed resources. This position will have responsibility for systems administration and security and support. Senior Managers within the Systems Design & Development job family work closely with various team members to understand the business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions.
The Amtrak SAP echo system is tightly integrated with business and IT strategies and in compliance with the organization's architectural standards. Sr. Managers IT, Systems Design & Development participate in the Full Systems Development Life Cycle. The Sr. Manager is responsible for implementing and supporting application software which is delivered on time and within budget. The Senior Manager IT, Systems Design and Development will possess a solid understanding of management and integration methodologies. The manager will have responsibility for overall technical SAP Platform engineering. Thus, they will be responsible for capacity planning, disaster recovery, system performance, and technical monitoring. They will also drive the technical tasks for our Major SAP Program cutovers and be responsible for driving cloud governance across our growing cloud SAP echo system. 

Essential Functions
  • Work with Release Manager and Functional teams in creating schedule of annual maintenance activities.
  • Regularly partner with Release Manager to make sure upcoming activities are adequately supported as well as make sure communications across the various organizations occurring.
  • Will strengthen Lifecycle ownership through collaboration with various stakeholders including GRC and Cyber Security and the Product Owners to make sure landscape wise we are up to date software, OS, middleware, and Database and resolve critical vulnerabilities in a timely manner as well as communicate outages. Also, this resource will partner with our GRC and business users to make sure we have clean Segregation of Duties rules and no unmitigated violations.
  • Serve as accountable owner for our Technical SAP Standards including Technical Architecture, RTO/RPO, cutover bridge leadership, SLA governance, Disaster Recovery setup and testing, Landscape/Transport strategy, and overall SAP NS2/RISE governance.
  • Will need to serve as gatekeepers in enforcing controls across both ECC and S4 in a TBD environment thus will need to create efficient processes for their team members to uphold key controls and governance.  
  • Drive ownership and responsibility for SLA oversight, and technical cutover leadership during major releases and migrations across our SAP echo-system.
  • Along with various stakeholders, one will meet with our various SAP Product Owners monthly and where needed implement process/focus items.
  • Will be transitioning technical support for the S4 project in the hyper care phase to regular run support to our Tier 2 support vendor. Providing cross-training/documentation will be a key activity.
  • Look/groom team members who can fill in/take over in the future.  
  • Provide oversite to all capital project activities done by the technical resources and where needed make priority decisions.
  • Responsible person will make sure all engineering resources are keeping their Work Items on the Intake/Jira Kanban board are up to date.
  • Sr. Manager will be accountable for team project deliverables, delivery quality and on time.
  • Hold team meetings with the Engineering resources via Teams and document meeting minutes.
  • Conduct regular 1-1's and perform annual reviews for each of the direct reports.
  • Onboard/Offboard resources as appropriate and request necessary access.
  • Make sure skill-wise across the technical areas that have the right resources at a technical/attitude perspective.
  • Work with the Sr Technical Operating resource to make sure cross-training is occurring on CAPEX projects to ensure support post hyper care is successful.
  • Work with the Technical capital project resources to make sure new documentation/adjustments of diagrams is occurring.
  • Make sure there is regular representation on the scheduled calls.
  • Engages with various stakeholders to create Roadmaps in the SAP ecosystem. Overall, they can partner with the Product Owners and Architecture and drive quality project deliverables.
  • Can speak to a broad audience on SAP issues whether on Project or Architectural meetings.
  • Make sure we are staying current on Application, Operating Systems, Database patches, and versions on the Project landscapes.
  • Support any Financial Audit requests as they arise in a timely manner.
  • Work with Cyber Security to resolve major vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
  • Work Incident's/Change Requests/Problems/Service Requests in a timely manner, this person is the first level contact for major Incidents during hyper care and cutover. 
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education, training and/or relevant experience.
  • 9 years of relevant experience managing development projects.
  • 5+ years of firsthand experience with SAP Technical experience: specifically, Basis, Cloud Infrastructure, BTP Management
Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education, training and/or relevant experience. 
  • Plus 11 years of relevant work experience.
  • Master's Degree in technical/business or equivalent.
  • SAP Basis or SAP ABAP/PO Development experience.
  • Domain knowledge of transportation systems
  • PMP and Agile Scrum certified.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Experience managing technical resources who have worked on ECC, Fiori Gateway, PO, BTP, Portals, SuccessFactors, and Ariba on Demand
  • Experience working in a RISE and/or NS2 environment in a operations management role.
  • Experience in working on S4 Migration projects/teams relates to the technical team (Basis, Security, and Development).
  • Experience working in large complex companies that operate in real time 24x7 IT operations to successfully service external customers.
  • Have utilized Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Atlassian tools such as JIRA and Confluence
  • Experience working in a mission critical SAP 24/7 echo-system/landscape and experience with major migrations/cutovers.
  • Demonstrates experience as leading S4 Technical migrations, experience operating in RISE/S4, and led DR/HA efforts in that environment.
  • Strong Agile delivery experience.
  • Experience managing multiple SAP functional/vertical stakeholders as well as experience leading teams in a self-sufficient manner.
  • May require knowledge of one processes/services. Business experience should include assignments in one or more business and technical processes.
  • Requires experience in managing teams and building relationships with people at a variety of levels.
  • Requires demonstrated ability to launch and deliver one or more IT project(s) on time and within budget.
  • Must possess effective communication and people skills, work well with others in an integrated team environment, and must be selfmotivated.
  • Initiative-taking, organized, and able to support multiple highly paced initiatives.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.

The salary/hourly range is $149,400.00 - $193,644.00. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. Depending on an employee's assigned worksite or location, Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee's base salary. Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position. In addition to your salary, Amtrak offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts; wellness programs; flexible spending accounts; 401K retirement plan with employer match; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; back-up care; adoption assistance; surrogacy assistance; reimbursement of education expenses; Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility; Railroad Retirement sickness and retirement benefits; and rail pass privileges. Learn more about our benefits offerings here.

Requisition ID:166213

Work Arrangement:06-Onsite 4/5 Days Click here for more information about work arrangements at Amtrak.
Relocation Offered:No
Travel Requirements:Up to 25%

You power our progress through your performance.

We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job. We want your career at Amtrak to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging work, rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, and attractive compensation. Amtrak maintains a culture that values high performance and recognizes individual employee contributions.


Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol. All Amtrak positions requires a pre-employment background check that includes prior employment verification, a criminal history check and a pre-employment drug screen.

Candidates who test positive for marijuana will be disqualified, regardless of any state or local statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Amtrak's pre-employment drug testing program is administered in accordance with DOT regulations and applicable law.


In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.

In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for providers of public transportation (Title 6 U.S.C. 1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses.


Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.


Amtrak is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/color, to include traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and hairstyles such as braids, locks and twists, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, such as lactation), national origin/ethnicity, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.


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About Amtrak

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As we move America's workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

Industry

Travel arrangement services

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Washington, DC, US

Year founded

1971