Data Engineer III, Data Engineering India

About the job

Amazon IN Platform Development team is looking to hire a Data Engineer to build for pan Amazon India businesses.

Amazon India is at the core of hustle @ Amazon WW today and the team is charted with democratizing data access for the entire marketplace & add productivity. That translates to owning the processing of every Amazon India transaction, for which the team is organized to have dedicated business owners & processes for each focus area. The Data Engineer will play a key role in contributing to the success of each focus area, by partnering with respective business owners and leveraging data to identify areas of improvement & optimization. He / She will build deliverables like business process automation, payment behavior analysis, campaign analysis, fingertip metrics, failure prediction etc. that provide edge to business decision making AND can scale with growth. The role sits in the sweet spot between technology and business worlds AND provides opportunity for growth, high business impact and working with seasoned business leaders.

An ideal candidate will be someone with sound technical background in data domain – storage / processing / analytics, has solid business acumen and a strong automation / solution oriented thought process. Will be a self-starter who can start with a business problem and work backwards to conceive & devise best possible solution. Is a great communicator and at ease on partnering with business owners and other internal / external teams. Can explore newer technology options, if need be, and has a high sense of ownership over every deliverable by the team. Is constantly obsessed with customer delight & business impact / end result and ‘gets it done’ in business time.

Key job responsibilities - Design, implement and support an data infrastructure for analytics needs of large organization - Adopt and drive AI-native practices while building data solutions. Build AI-powered products for business requirements - Interface with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources using Redshift SQL, Spark SQL and other AWS big data technologies - Optimize data pipelines, build and manage Python-based automations/tools for data pipelines - Be enthusiastic about building deep domain knowledge about Amazon’s business - Must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment - Enjoy working closely with your peers, stakeholders and customers. - Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service support for customers - Explore and learn the latest AWS technologies to provide new capabilities and increase efficiency

Basic qualifications - 5+ 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

Preferred qualifications - Experience with big data technologies such as: Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR - Experience operating large data warehouses

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