Business Intelligence Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

As a Business Analyst / Business Intelligence Engineer within the group, you will work closely with operations managers, program managers, software developers, research scientists and product managers to analyze massive data sets, identify areas to improve, define metrics to measure and monitor programs, and most importantly work with different stakeholders to drive productivity and efficiency improvements over time. You will also work closely with internal business teams to extract or mine information from our existing systems to create new analysis, and expose data from our group to wider teams in intuitive ways. As a Business Analyst / BIE embedded in the business team you have the opportunity to participate and shape program development as well as leverage your technical skills. This position provides opportunities to influence high visibility/high impact areas in the organization.
This position requires superior analytical thinkers, able to quickly approach large ambiguous problems and apply your technical and engineering expertise to rapidly prototype and deliver solutions. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving, be able to measure and estimate risks, constructively critique peer research, extract and manipulate data across various data marts, and align research focuses on Amazon's strategic needs.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 3 to 5 years of experience as a Data or BI Engineer dealing with large complex data scenarios.
· Expert in data extraction experience using SQL. We expect robust basic foundation skills in SQL extraction.
· ETL experience and basic/intermediate familiarity with Linux preferred. Intermediate skills with Ruby, Perl, Python or, at least, one similar scripting language. If you can understand a code and have the knack to learn then you should be covered.
· Strong understanding of BI technologies and their application including database warehousing and dash boarding
· Experience on at least one data visualization tools (e.g. OBIEE, Tableau, QlikView)
· Strong verbal/written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.