What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer II, Connections position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Connections is an innovative, research-driven science program and tech that gives Amazonians globally an effective way to provide feedback on the workplace and help shape the future of the company. Connections asks employees quick questions every day and uses that real-time information to learn from their experiences, introduce targeted content, and measure specific outcomes. Our goal is to strengthen Amazon’s workplace culture and develop leaders who earn trust, remove obstacles, and make Amazon an inspiring place to work.
The Connections team combines the culture of a startup, the innovation and creativity of a R&D lab, and technical challenges at the scale of Amazon. We expect TPMs, engineers, and management alike to take a high-level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture, and project delivery. Successful candidates will be high-bandwidth leaders who can cut through the noise, simplify relentlessly, deliver results, and help build great teams around themselves.
As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing data solutions using Amazon's cloud technologies. The ideal candidate excels at working with AWS ETL tools and is comfortable accessing and manipulating big data from multiple sources. You should passionately partner with business teams to identify strategic opportunities and deliver results. We're looking for someone with a strong drive to answer "why?" questions, excellent analytical abilities, and strong technical skills. Good written and verbal communication skills are essential. We're seeking a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big while paying careful attention to detail, and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
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 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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3 years of data engineering experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience with SQL
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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)
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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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.
Salary : $118,900 - $205,600
