Data Engineer
Data Engineer - Business Intelligence
Amazon.com is seeking an outstanding senior Data Engineer to join Amazon.com's Business Intelligence team. The Amazon.com Business Intelligence team delivers business intelligence to over 1000 internal customers, and a diverse community of external customers, from one of the world's largest and most complex data sets. Amazon.com has culture of data-driven decision-making, and demands business intelligence that is timely, accurate, and actionable. If you join the Amazon.com Business Intelligence team your work will have an immediate influence on day-to-day decision making at Amazon.com and drive the adoption of new Business Intelligence technologies.
Responsibilities
Amazon.com Business Intelligence is a fast paced environment where every day brings new challenges and new opportunities. As a Data Engineer working on the analytics platform, you will be developing and supporting the analytic technologies that give our customers timely, flexible and structured access to their data. You will be responsible for designing and implementing a platform using third-party and in-house reporting tools, modeling metadata, building reports and dashboards, and administering the platform software. You will interact with customers to gather requirements and build structured reporting solutions. You will provide guidance and support for other engineers with industry best practices and direction.
- Design, implement, and support a platform that can provide ad-hoc access to large datasets
- Develop interactive dashboards, reports, and analysis templates using Oracle BI EE
- Model data and metadata for adhoc and pre-built reporting using Oracle BI EE and Hyperion Essbase
- Interface with business customers, gathering requirements and delivering complete reporting solutions.
- Tune application and query performance using Unix profiling tools and SQL
We're looking for Data Engineers who have a passion for data and a passion for supplying their clients with that data. You know and love working with analytic tools, can write excellent SQL and Unix scripts, can partner with customers to answer key business questions, and you are an advocate for your customers. You are analytical and creative, and you don't quit. You should also have the following skills or experiences:
- Bachelors degree in CS or related technical field and 5+ years experience in Data Warehousing
- 3+ years experience with notable BI reporting tools (Hyperion Essbase and Oracle BI Enterprise Edition is preferred), including administration, modeling, and development.
- Excellent knowledge of Oracle SQL, Linux and OLAP
