Business And Data Analyst, Data Center Planning Delivery (Amer)

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in providing a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud powering hundreds of thousands of businesses in hundreds of countries around the world. As part of the AWS Infrastructure organization, Data Center Planning and Delivery (DCPD) prepares for, plans, and builds the data centers that comprise the AWS cloud.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Business and Data Analyst in Herndon, VA, Arlington, VA, or Seattle, WA to manage and solve business critical problems using requirements analysis, build data reports/ dashboards to deliver metrics and insights to the business. This role has direct impact on the day-to-day decision making of large-scale capacity delivery programs.

This role drives operational excellence, by: 1) deep diving critical delivery metrics and data, 2) identifying solutions that minimize blockers and delays, and 3) using knowledge of infrastructure builds to advise or influence business decisions that have cross-region impact. You must be highly analytical and possess a strong passion for analytics and accountability, set high standards with a focus on superior business success you must also have a passion for process improvement and constantly looking for ways to work more efficiently. You will use your judgment, analytical talent, technical aptitude, and leadership to collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders across multiple time zones, design solutions, remove blockers, and find creative ways to invent and simplify centralized solutions.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, test, document, and operate large-scale, high-volume, high-performance data structures for business intelligence analytics.

• Implementing data structures using best practices in data modeling to provide on-line reporting and analysis using business intelligence tools and a logical abstraction layer against large, multi-dimensional datasets and multiple sources.

• Gathering business and functional requirements and translating the gathered requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions that work well within the overall data architecture.

• Analyzing source data systems and driving best practices in source teams.

• Analyzing large amounts of data, discovering and solving real world problems, and building metrics and business cases to help business teams to make decisions.

• Participating in the full development life cycle, end-to-end, from design, implementation and testing, to documentation, delivery, support, and maintenance to produce comprehensive, usable dataset documentation and metadata.

• Evaluating and making decisions around dataset implementations designed and proposed by peer data engineers. Identifying business process improvements from the data level.

• Analyzing and evaluating business process, and through data driven insights proposing and implementing business process improvement.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

• 4+ years of business analyst, data analyst or similar role experience

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

• 5+ years of Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau experience

• Experience with SQL

• Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders

• Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights

• 4+ years of analyzing and interpreting data with Redshift, Oracle, NoSQL etc. experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience partnering with executive-level leaders to identifying and solving business issues

• Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

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 $59,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $143,100/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.