Interested in working with the latest technology in the cloud computing space? Amazon is looking for talented and enthusiastic data engineers to join the People Engine Organization. Our team is responsible for integrating HR system to 100+ downstream systems. This job requires you to hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly will define your success. Expertise on Core Java, SQL (Oracle/Presto), AWS services like Athena, S3, Batch, Lambda, DynamoDb, CloudWatch is a must. If you’re thrilled by the idea of ownership, passionate about HR Data and comfortable with the pace of a company shipping software in cycles measured in weeks not years, we would love to connect with you.
Key job responsibilities
• Gather business and functional requirements and translate these requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions with a flexible and adaptable data architecture.
• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of next generation data and BI solutions from the ground up.
• Manage AWS resources including S3, Athena, Batch, lambda etc.
• Optimize automated processes for performance and fault tolerance.
• Optimize support for ad-hoc analysis across various data sources
• Collaborate with BI Engineers, Software Engineers, and cross-functionally to deliver high quality data architecture and pipelines.
• Make large and/or complex data more accessible, understandable and usable by applications and teams.
A day in the life
As a Data Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, lead data engineering initiatives and build end-to-end analytical solutions that are highly available, scalable, stable, secure, and cost-effective. You strive for simplicity, demonstrate creativity and sound judgement. You deliver data solutions that are customer focused, easy to consume and create business impact. You have a strategic and long term view on architecting advanced data eco systems. You are experienced in building efficient and scalable data services and have the ability to integrate data systems with AWS tools and services to support a variety of customer use cases/applications.
- 3+ years of data engineering experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions
- Experience with non-relational databases / data stores (object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases)
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $205,600/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.