Business Intelligence Engineer, Listing Analytics

Are you looking for a role that allows you to shape the future of how sellers sell their products globally with Amazon? Do you like working in a start-up like environment with the opportunity to have a significant impact from day 1? Do you have an insatiable curiosity about why Amazon global stores operate as they do and how Amazon could optimize its global selling business? If so, then keep reading as this could be the role for you.
Over 2MM active sellers in 22 countries (and growing) list their products for sale on the Amazon stores. Sellers are a critical part of Amazon’s ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the earth’s largest selection and lowest prices.
As a Senior Business Intelligence Engineer (BIE) on Listing Analytics team, you will be responsible for bringing data to the table, specifically seller anecdotes and business metrics. Our business metrics will support or disprove our hypothesis and will be the deciding factor in making business & product roadmap decisions. The ideal candidate thrives in working in large and complex data warehouse environments, has excellent verbal and written communication skills, is motivated by developing innovative and simplified solutions to solve complex analytical problems using very large data sets and is passionate about working with large data sets and bringing data together to answer business questions and drive change. These analyses and solutions will be fundamental to finding opportunities and creating new programs aimed at further growing on Amazon stores. In this role you will:

• Engage with leadership and diversified customer groups to understand the needs and recommend business intelligence solutions.
• Partner with engineering teams to define the data elements and data structures that the team should leverage to develop critical seller experience metrics.
• Design, implement, and support platforms that provide business teams ad-hoc access to large datasets for self service deep dives (eg: data visualization tools for non-tech business users)
• Interface with business customers, gather requirements and deliver 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
• Standardize data and report consumption across all customer groups.
• Make recommendations for new metrics, techniques, and strategies to improve the operational and quality metrics.
• 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

– 3+ years of analyzing and interpreting data with Redshift, Oracle, NoSQL etc. experience
– Experience with data visualization using Tableau, Quicksight, or similar tools
– Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
– Experience in Statistical Analysis packages such as R, SAS and Matlab
– Experience using SQL to pull data from a database or data warehouse and scripting experience (Python) to process data for modeling

Preferred Qualifications

– Experience with AWS solutions such as EC2, DynamoDB, S3, and Redshift
– Experience in data mining, ETL, etc. and using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets

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 $89,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/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.