DESCRIPTION
The Amazon Devices Product Operations team is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Business Intelligence Engineer to design and run a world class Global Supply Chain business intelligence platform. We are responsible for measuring the health and integration of the entire Devices Product Operations Supply Chain.
The team is responsible for providing actionable performance metrics in a format that is easy to digest at the highest levels in the organization. These business metrics highlight areas of risk and opportunity, performance outliers, and assist in making well-informed, data-based business decisions. Using this information, we will help business leaders develop a strategy on what company-wide investments to make and the level of their importance.
As an Business Intelligence Engineer, you will be working in one of the world's largest data warehouse environments. Working in Product Operations, you will help build one of the largest cross-functional databases in Amazon as well as work on Business Intelligence reporting and dashboarding solutions that are used by thousands of users worldwide.
You should have deep expertise in the design, creation, management, and business use of large datasets. An ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills to be able to work with business owners to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions.
You should have expertise in designing, implementing, and operating stable, scalable, low cost solutions to flow data from production systems into the data warehouse and into end-user facing applications. You should be able to work with business customers in a fast paced environment understanding the business requirements and implementing reporting solutions.
Above all, you should bring your passion for working with huge data sets and bringing datasets together to answer business questions and drive change.
Key job responsibilities
- Engage with leadership and diversified functional groups to understand the needs and recommend business intelligence solutions.
- Own the design, implementation, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, and dashboards, to drive key business decisions.
- Partner with technology teams to define, extract, transform, and load data from many data sources using SQL and other tools.
- Automate and simplify self-service or reporting pipelines, including improving ETL workflows, automatic alarming and performance tuning.
- Conduct deep dive analyses of business problems and data issues and formulate conclusions and recommendations for leadership and technical teams
- Participate in strategic and tactical planning discussions and provide data insights. Challenge business teams to think differently about how they digest and use the data insights to make informed decisions.
- Make recommendations for new metrics, techniques, and strategies to improve business KPI's
- Be connected and influential within the Amazon BIE community. Work with Data engineering, Software development teams to enable the appropriate capture and storage of key data points.
A day in the life
- Understand a broad range of data resources/processes
- Partner with internal stakeholders across multiple teams, gathering requirements and delivering end to end solutions
- Conduct deep dive analyses of business problems and formulate conclusions and recommendations; determine optimized courses of action to deliver comprehensive BI solutions
- Design, develop and maintain scalable and reliable analytical tools, dashboards, and metrics that drive key business decisions
- Simplify and automate reporting, metrics and dashboards; build solutions at maximum scale and self-serviceability by users
- Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation
About the team
As the single thread leader for the Operations Organization, Product Operations launch innovative devices at the lowest cost possible to delight our customers and to enable downstream revenue for Amazon. With the support of multiple organizations, we deliver those launches timely and design the best end-to-end customer centric supply chain solution for each product.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ 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 in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills.
- Experience with theory and practice of information retrieval, data science, machine learning and data mining
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs
- Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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.
