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Amazon Senior Data Engineer, 3PX - Private Pricing Analytics & Insights in East Palo Alto, California
Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon and the leader in providing secure, reliable, scalable, and innovative services that help over a million businesses, governments, education, and not for profits across the globe scale and grow! AWS provides a wide set of scalable services to meet customer needs.
The AWS Global Deal Strategy and Programs (GDSP) organization is responsible for the Private Pricing Program. The Private Pricing Analytics and Insights (PPA&I) team owns building scalable analytical solutions that enable the GDSP organization with actionable insights to make data-driven decisions. This role will focus on Data Engineering, and Analytics related to the Private Pricing Program, requiring deep technical skills, strong business acumen and a deep analytical background to provide actionable data-driven insights and decision support.
As a Senior Data Engineer on this team, you will drive efficiency in data handling processes, setup product analytics, drive advanced analysis and build new metrics which are key inputs to improve the health, scale and growth of the Private Pricing Program. You will work collaboratively with the business leaders (including the VP of Private Pricing), operations, and engineering teams on many non-standard and unique business problems and support business initiatives by collecting required and related data from external/internal sources.
The ideal candidate should have strong communication skills and ability to prioritize effectively to ensure timelines are met. You will own projects E2E, from engaging with customers to production and delivery of a suite of tools used by the organization to make key business decisions. You should be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big and be creative (while still paying careful attention to detail). You think in terms of architecture, not just code. You proactively work to improve the consistency and integration between your team’s BI solutions and any related systems or artifacts.
Key job responsibilities
• Owning the design, development, and maintenance of scalable solutions for ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to support analytical and business needs
• Interface with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources using AWS services and internal tools
• Build and deliver high quality data sets to support data scientists and customer reporting needs.
• Continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service support for customers
• Translate basic business problem statements into analysis requirements.
• Use analytical and statistical rigor to answer business questions and drive business decisions.
• Find and create ways to measure the customer experience to drive business outcomes.
• Develop queries and visualizations for ad-hoc requests and projects, as well as ongoing reporting.
• Write queries and output efficiently, and have in-depth knowledge of the available in area of expertise. Pull the needed with standard query syntax; periodically identify more advanced methods of query optimization. Convert to make it analysis-ready.
• Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: integrity, design, analysis, validation, and documentation.
• Troubleshoot operational -quality issues.
• Review and audit existing jobs and queries.
• Recommending improvements to back-end sources for increased accuracy and simplicity.
About the team
Diverse Experiences:
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture:
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth:
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance:
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Boston, MA, USA | East Palo Alto, CA, USA | Irvine, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of data engineering experience
Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
Experience with SQL
Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS
Experience mentoring team members on best practices
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with big data technologies such as: Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR
Experience operating large data warehouses
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $123,700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $240,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.