Sr. Data Engineer, WW Standardization & Automation

Job description

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Are you passionate about standardizing data platforms and automating data engineering to drive analytics and reporting? Do you excel in dynamic, fast-paced environments and find joy in converting data into actionable insights? Are you adept at implementing data governance practices and defining data access and quality standards? If you thrive in innovation and can deliver scalable Data Engineering Solutions, then the Worldwide Operations Finance Standardization & Automation (SnA) team has an exciting opportunity for you! We are seeking a customer-centric Senior Data Engineer to establish a reliable and accessible data platform, ensuring Operations Finance customers have complete trust in the data, technology, and tools to make data-driven business decisions.

As a Senior Data Engineer in WWSNA, you will be working in one of the world's largest and most complex data warehouse environments. You will design, implement and support scalable data infrastructure solutions and implement complex data models for Amazon Inbound & Outbound Transportation business. As a Sr. DE you will create solutions to integrate with multi heterogeneous data sources, aggregate and retrieve data in a fast and safe mode, curate data that can be used in reporting, analysis, machine learning models and ad-hoc data requests. You should have excellent business and communication skills to be able to work with business owners, Product teams and Tech leaders to gather infrastructure requirements, design data infrastructure, build up data pipelines and data-sets to meet business needs. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and operating a data service platform using Python, Airflow, and SQL to build the various ETL, analytics, and data quality components. You’ll automate deployments using AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), and AWS Cloud Formation. You will work with AWS services like Redshift, Glue, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and more.

Key job responsibilities
- Interface with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources using Python, SQL and AWS big data technologies.
- Explore and learn the latest AWS technologies to provide new capabilities and increase efficiencies of the team.
- Designing and implementing complex pipelines and other Data Engineering solutions.
- Work closely with business owners, developers, Business Intelligence Engineer to explore new data sources and deliver the data.
- Create extensible designs and easy to maintain solutions with the long term vision in mind
- Improve tools, processes, scale existing solutions, create new solutions as required based on team and stakeholder needs

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ 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
- Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
- Experience with MPP databases such as Amazon Redshift
- Knowledge of distributed systems as it pertains to data storage and computing
- Deep knowledge of orchestration frameworks like step functions / Airflow.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Bellevue - 154,600.00 - 209,100.00 USD annually