DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about data and code? Does the prospect of dealing with mission-critical data excite you? Do you want to build data engineering solutions that process a broad range of business and customer data? Do you want to continuously improve the systems that enable annual worldwide revenue of hundreds of billions of dollars? If so, then the eCommerce Services (eCS) team is for you!

In eCommerce Services (eCS), we build systems that span the full range of eCommerce functionality, from Privacy, Identity, Purchase Experience and Ordering to Shipping, Tax and Financial integration. eCommerce Services manages several aspects of the customer life cycle, starting from account creation and sign in, to placing items in the shopping cart, proceeding through checkout, order processing, managing order history and post-fulfillment actions such as refunds and tax invoices. eCS services determine sales tax and shipping charges, and we ensure the privacy of our customers. Our mission is to provide a commerce foundation that accelerates business innovation and delivers a secure, available, performant, and reliable shopping experience to Amazon’s customers.

The goal of the eCS Data Engineering and Analytics team is to provide high quality, on-time reports to Amazon business teams, enabling them to expand globally at scale. Our team has a direct impact on retail CX, a key component that runs our Amazon fly wheel.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will own the architecture of DW solutions for the Enterprise using multiple platforms. You would have the opportunity to lead the design, creation and management of extremely large datasets working backwards from business use cases. You will use your strong business and communication skills to be able to work with business analysts and engineers to determine how best to design the data warehouse for reporting and analytics. You will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable ETL processes in the data warehouse platform to support the rapidly growing and dynamic business demand for data and use it to deliver the data as service which will have an immediate influence on day-to-day decision making.

Key job responsibilities
– Develop data products, infrastructure and data pipelines leveraging AWS services (such as Redshift, Kinesis, EMR, Lambda etc.) and internal BDT tools (DataNet, Cradle, Quick Sight etc.
– Improve existing solutions and come up with next generation Data Architecture to improve scale, quality, timeliness, coverage, monitoring and security.
– Develop new data models and end to data pipelines.
– Lead design reviews for other Data Engineers on the team and actively participate in design reviews of related tech products.
– Provide technical and thought leadership for Data Engineering and Business Intelligence within the eCS org.
– Create and implement Data Governance strategy for mitigating privacy and security risks.

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