We are hiring a Business Intelligence Engineer to identify strategic initiatives that will form the next generation of Amazon Logistics. As a Business Intelligence Engineer you will be working in one of the world's largest and most complex data warehouse environments. In this role, you will primarily work on designing and building automated reporting and dashboards using complex data. We are still in the nascent stage so it is an exciting opportunity to be involved from design-to-execution. As a BI Engineer, you will operate as a mix of hands-on builder and influencer.
The team’s success depends on our ability to create actionable insight from the data that we and our partners generate. The ideal BIE candidate will have excellent analytical abilities, business acumen, high judgment, strong technical skills, and good written and verbal communication skills. This person will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big and be creative (while paying careful attention to detail), and enjoys working in a fast-paced dynamic environment. To be successful in this role, you should have broad skills in data mining, be comfortable dealing with large and complex data sets, while applying analytical rigor to solve business problems.
This role is cross-functional - you will work closely with partners in Product Management, Training and Program Management to design and deliver data needs. You should be comfortable working in a dynamic, start-up environment, and seek data-driven decision-making. You should have strong analytical and communication skills and be able to work with product managers and business development teams to define key business questions and build data sets and models that answer them.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop complex queries for ad hoc requests and projects, as well as ongoing reporting.
- Design, develop and maintain scalable, automated, user-friendly systems, reports, dashboards, etc. that will support our analytical and business needs
- Design, implement, and support key datasets that provide structured and timely access to actionable business information addressing stakeholder needs.
- Interface directly with stakeholders, gathering requirements and owning automated end-to-end reporting solutions.
- Partner with analysts, data engineers, business intelligence engineers, and software development engineers across Amazon to produce complete data solutions.
- Simplify and automate reporting, audits, and other data-driven activities; build solutions to have maximum scale and self-service ability by stakeholders
- Proficiency with SQL queries to retrieve and analyze data. Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and know how, when, and which to use.
- Estimate models, write analyses, and extract insights and provide business recommendations.
- 10-20% travel per quarter.
About the team
We serve AMZL’s Learning teams as the strategic thought leader, looking beyond where other teams are focused to drive transformative solutions that leverage technology and processes to improve learning outcomes and drive down the cost to serve.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of professional or military experience
- 5+ years of SQL experience
- Experience programming to extract, transform and clean large (multi-TB) data sets
- Experience with theory and practice of design of experiments and statistical analysis of results
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills.
- 5+ years’ experience using business intelligence tools like Tableau, QuickSight, PowerBI etc.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs
- Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience with theory and practice of information retrieval, data science, machine learning and data mining
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $117,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $202,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.