Data Engineer, AWS Workforce Planning

Success in any organization begins with its people and having a comprehensive understanding of our workforce and how we best utilize their unique skills and experience is paramount to our future success.

Come join the team that owns the technology behind key AWS people planning products, services, and metrics. We leverage technology to improve the experience of AWS Executives, HR/Recruiting/Finance leaders, and internal AWS planning partners.

As a Data Engineer on the AWS PXT Workforce Planning team, you will play a critical role in building and maintaining the data pipelines and ETL mechanisms necessary to scale and implement the workforce planning data services and backend architecture. You will work closely with partner teams to design, develop, test, and deploy scalable data solutions that enable efficient workforce planning and decision-making.

You will work closely within a small team of Engineers and Scientists to develop scalable and secure workflows in workforce planning, ML modeling, analysis and inspection. You will enable a global staff of workforce strategists and cross functional groups to perform strategic planning, scenario analysis and understand the downstream impact of workforce decisions. As a data engineer, you will strive to optimize and improve our data infrastructure to be modular, extensible, reusable, secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant.


Key job responsibilities
This position is right for you if you are passionate about solving the ambiguous data architecture challenges on behalf of our customers and users. Being deeply customer focused is a must as you constantly look for ways to improve the quality, speed, maintainability and efficiency of our organization’s data architecture. You are able to think creatively, operate best within an agile team, and are able to proactively anticipate customer needs.

This Role will:
• Actively collaborate with our product managers and software engineers to understand requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Own development and maintenance of new and existing scalable, secure, extensible, and reusable data pipelines.
• Utilize best engineering practices including but not limited to
o Robust testing (unit, data integrity, and smoke) with automated rollbacks
o Linting
o Secure by default designs
o Code reviews
• Engage in collaborative design reviews with fellow engineers consisting of peer data, software, and business intelligence.
• Collaborate with senior staff to determine data typing, table schemes, and indexing methodologies.
• Collaborate with partner data engineering teams within peer organizations for shared project initiatives.
• Consider and advise on key design and technology trade-offs related to data architecture, technology platforms, and table designs.

About the team
Our team communicates who we are as an employer – what it’s like to be an Amazonian, why we love innovating on behalf of customers and why people should join us. We build trust with our partners, dive deep into our data, and love to learn and be curious as we deliver results. Our job is to bring that to life.
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