Description

Are you passionate about data? Does the prospect of dealing with massive volumes of data excite you? Do you want to build data engineering solutions that process billions of records a day in a scalable fashion using Amazon Web Services technologies? Do you want to create the next-generation tools for intuitive data access?

Amazon's Finance Technology team is seeking truly innovative Data Engineer to join the team that is shaping the future of the finance data platform. The team is committed to building big data platforms that support Amazon's rapidly growing and dynamic businesses, and use it to deliver the BI applications which will have an immediate influence on day-to-day decision making. Amazon has culture of data-driven decision-making, and demands data that is timely, accurate, and actionable. Our platform serves Amazon's finance, tax and accounting functions across the globe.

As a Data Engineer, you should be an expert with data warehousing technical components (e.g. Data Modeling, ETL and Reporting), infrastructure (e.g. hardware and software) and their integration. You should have deep understanding of the architecture for enterprise level data warehouse solutions using multiple platforms (RDBMS, Columnar, Cloud). You should be an expert in the design, creation, management, and business use of large datasets. You should have excellent business and communication skills to be able to work with business owners to develop and define key business questions, and to build data sets that answer those questions. The individual 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. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required as the person will work very closely with diverse teams. Having strong analytical skills is a plus. Above all, you should be passionate about working with huge data sets and someone who loves to bring datasets together to answer business questions and drive change.

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. In this role you will be part of a team of engineers to create world's largest financial data warehouses and BI tools for Amazon's expanding global footprint.

Responsibilities:

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

• Interface with tax, finance and accounting customers, gathering requirements and delivering complete BI solutions.

• Model data and metadata to support ad-hoc and pre-built reporting.

• Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions.

• Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation.

• Tune application and query performance using profiling tools and SQL.

• Analyze and solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.

• Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and know when, how, and which to use and which not to use.

• 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.

• Continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service support for datasets.

• Triage many possible courses of action in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative analysis and business judgment.

Key job responsibilities

A Data Engineer II is an autonomous contributor who uses a broad set of design approaches to pragmatically solve difficult problems delivering high quality, stable and performant code. They use their expertise in team’s infrastructure and data products like Synchro, Oracle EBS, FGBSBI to provide technical direction to tax users, works with Tax Tech to understand the business requirements, defines physical and logical data model, designs the solution and contributes great amount to the code base, and guides other engineers on the same team as well as from other teams. They review their design with senior engineers to ensure data engineering best practices are followed. They insist on high standards and set an example with his code, design and implementation decisions. They lead the way in adopting native AWS technologies and implementing new trends in data engineering space. They continuously focus on operational excellence, constructively identify problems and propose solutions to fix them for good.

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)