Data Engineer II

DESCRIPTION

Do you love working with data? Are you excited about handling a lot of data? Do you want to make new tools that make it easy to get information from data? Are you keen on solving problems that no other company has solved?

In this role, you will sit with the GTMC SIERRA's engineering organization, and work with Data Engineers, Software developer engineers, UX designers, business intelligence engineers and data scientists. You will be responsible to design and build data products and services at scale to have a significant impact on 1.5 million Amazonians and the communities Amazon serves.

As a Data Engineer II, you should be an expert with data lake fundamentals around storage, compute, etc., familiar with multiple data processing stacks like Spark, EMR, and core data concepts (e.g. Data Modeling and Reporting). You should have deep understanding of the architecture for enterprise level data lake/mesh solutions using NAWS stack or other cloud stacks. You should be an expert in the design, creation, management, and business use of large data-sets. The candidate is expected to be able to build efficient, flexible, extensible, and scalable ETL and reporting solutions. You should be enthusiastic about learning new technologies and be able to implement solutions using them to provide new functionality to the users or to scale the existing platform. Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, relishes working with large transactional volumes and big data, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts (that are typically being defined in real-time), and, above all, is a passionate about data and analytics.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support a platform providing secured access to large datasets.

• Architect , develop and maintain end to end scalable data infrastructure and data pipelines

• Develop the teams' data strategy and technical road map of data storage & pipelines design and implementation

• Interface with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, scripting and AWS big data technologies.

• Designing and implementing complex ETL pipelines and other BI solutions.

• Work closely with business owners, developers, Business Intelligence Engineers to explore new data sources and deliver the data.

• Keep up to date with advances in big data technologies and run pilots to design the data architecture to scale with the increased data volume using AWS.

• Empower the team for self-servicing by providing the necessary skills to handle complex tasks independently. Ensure that the team can efficiently manage and troubleshoot data-related issues, leading to increased autonomy and productivity. along with fostering a culture of self-reliance.

About the team

About the team

Global Talent Management & Compensation (GTMC) SIERRA (Science, Insights, Experience, Research, Reporting & Analytics) is a horizontal, multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to be a force multiplier for the broader GTMC organization and our key customer cohorts. We accomplish this by using our expertise in data analytics and science, economics, machine learning (ML), UX, I/O psychology, and engineering to build insights and experiences that raise the bar in understanding and shaping decision making at scale by integrating within and across talent journeys as well as through self-service tools and closed loop mechanisms outside of those journeys. Our portfolio of products spans foundational data sources, metrics, and research through to finished features and products that our end-customers interact with on a daily basis.

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

Seattle, WA, USA

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

Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of data engineering experience

• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions

• Experience with non-relational databases / data stores (object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases)

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 $118,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $205,600/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.