Business Intelligence Eng III, Receive Innovation & Sourcing Excellence

DESCRIPTION

ACES (Amazon Customer Excellence Systems) is seeking a highly talented and motivated Business Intelligence Engineer (BIE) to join the Receive Innovation & Sourcing Excellence (RISE) team. Our mission is to lead global Receive Accuracy advancements for Retail and FBA inventory through solutions spanning technology, suppliers, carriers, and operations teams. You will deliver results based on analyzing, evaluating and surfacing opportunities with your cross-disciplined team to senior leadership globally. As a Business Intelligence Engineer, you will generate insights that will guide feedback to operators and business strategy decisions. Data analysis is at the core Amazon’s culture, and your work will have a direct impact on decision-making and strategy for our organization. You will be gathering operational insights, running statistical analysis, mining data, making recommendations, visualizing data, and helping senior leaders make key business decisions.
You should be enthusiastic about leveraging data to uncover insights and solve business problems for ACES stakeholders, by producing end-to-end business intelligence solutions. Such solutions require data querying, data pipelining, and data visualization/dashboard building. Key job responsibilities
- Create end-to-end analytics solutions (acquire, integrate, and transform various data, develop production reporting pipelines, develop front-end BI tools (e.g Tableau, Power-BI, Quicksight).
- You are an analytics thought-leader and Subject Matter Expert for your domain and influence organization decisions through providing data-driven recommendations verbally or in writing.
- You are considered a technical leader on your team. You work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things with limited guidance. Your work focuses on complex and/or ambiguous problem areas in existing or new BI initiatives. You take the long term view of your team's solutions and how they fit into the team’s architecture. You consider where each solution is in its lifecycle and where appropriate, proactively fix architecture deficiencies.
- You are able to take the lead on large projects that require the work of multiple persons. You know how to divide a BI project into parallel work that can be performed by you and other data professionals and then reassembled successfully into a cohesive launch.
- You understand capabilities and limitations of the systems you work with (e.g. cluster size, concurrent users, data classification). You are able to explain these limitations to technical and non-technical audiences, helping them understand what’s currently possible and which efforts need a technology investment (e.g., data pipeline doesn’t exist, report needs additional functionality, etc.).
- You have established good working relationships with teammates and peers. You recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialogue to resolve them.
- Your code submissions and analytics approach to work are exemplary. Your BI solutions are inventive, robust, scalable, extensible, and easy for others to maintain and build upon. You understand that not all problems are new (or require new BI solutions).
- You are a key influencer in team strategy. You take ownership of team infrastructure, providing a system-wide view and design guidance. You make things simpler. You drive BI engineering best practices (e.g. Operational Excellence, code reviews, syntax and naming convention, metric definitions, alarms) and set standards. You work to resolve the root cause(s) of pervasive or persistent problems; your efforts may unblock related teams. This may require you to influence decisions made by other teams. A day in the life
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan About the team
GCF ACES - RISE team serves as the mechanism for globalization of receive and sourcing operational processes and products to support and optimize fulfillment. We provide product and program management and technical solutions to stakeholders across the supply chain. Our scope inherently includes the evolution and enhancement of operational products through improvements in receive and sourcing hardware and software and requires close partnership with multiple stakeholders. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Atlanta, GA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Charlotte, NC, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Houston, TX, USA | Louisville, KY, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | New York, NY, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with data visualization using Tableau, Quicksight, or similar tools
- 5+ years of SQL experience
- Knowledge of data warehousing and data modeling
- Experience with statistical analytics and programming languages such as R, Python, Ruby, etc.
- Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills.
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines