Amazon - Senior Business Intel Engineer

Are you excited by the challenge and sense of ownership that comes from leading projects at Amazon scale- Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment solving complex technical problems and delivering innovative solutions- If so, join us on the Amazon Appstore team. The Amazon Appstore business is a platform that drives innovation in the mobile apps and games ecosystem. We won- t settle for the status-quo and believe that consumers and developers deserve more from the current app stores in the market. Our team is looking for a Business Intelligence Analyst that wants to move fast and make a big impact by working closely with our Operations, Engineering, Marketing and Business Development teams to realize our vision.

As a BI Engineer, you play a key role in your team - they look to you for advice on analytical and business issues facing them. You are right, a lot. You get a lot done. You work very efficiently and routinely deliver the right things. You have performed multiple large, complex, and business-critical analyses that serve major parts of the business. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary - you drive best practices and set standards for your team. Other analytical individuals in your department regard you as an expert in one or more analytical areas. You provide advice and mentoring to other analysts. You are a key influence on your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgement making technical trade-offs between your group's short term and long term business needs, and the needs of the company as a whole. When confronted with discordant views, you find the best way forward and convince your team. You are vocally self-critical. You proactively contribute to knowledge-sharing across the Amazon analytical community. You demonstrate resilience and navigate difficult situations with composure and tact.

Amazon has a culture of data-driven decision-making, and demands business intelligence that is timely, accurate, and actionable. Our environment is very fast-paced, and requires someone who is flexible, detail-oriented, passionate about the customer and comfortable working with numerous stakeholders across the organization and worldwide.

We are looking for a BI Engineer to help us extract meaning from large volumes of data to make the right business decisions. The candidate will have to set the right vision, strategy and roadmap and work alongside with stakeholders in the organization to make it happen. The candidate knows and loves working with business intelligence tools, can model multidimensional datasets, and can partner with business leaders to answer key business questions. You are analytical and creative, and you don- t quit. You will also have the opportunity to display your skills in the following areas:

- Define the data elements and data structure that our team should leverage to enable analytical capabilities for our product management and engineering teams

- Design, implement, and support platforms that provide business teams ad-hoc access to large datasets (eg data visualization tools for non-tech business users)

- Interface with business customers, gathering requirements and delivering complete reporting solutions.

- Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions.

- Participate in strategic & tactical planning discussions.

- Use data mining, model building, and other analytical techniques to develop and maintain customer segmentation.

- Make recommendations for new metrics, techniques, and strategies to improve marketing campaign targeting and measurement in the future.

- Be connected and influential within the Amazon analyst community. Work with engineering and the data warehouse to enable the appropriate capture and storage of key data points.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years in Business Intelligence

- Experience in solving complex business problems using data

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, Math, or related discipline.

- Experience working in large-scale data problems.

- Strong hands-on experience in SQL and R.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer. Amazon or its Recruitment Partners do not charge any fee or security deposit from the candidate for offering employment.