Sr Data Engineer GOX - Global Operational Excellence

Amazon
London
3 weeks ago
Applications closed
Disrupting the way Amazon fulfills our customers orders.

Amazon operations is changing the way we improve Customer Experience through flawless fulfillment focused on 1 successful ontime delivery 2 at speed and 3 at the lowest possible cost. Being the engine of Amazon Operational excellence driving zero defects through ideal operation being the heart of the Fulfillment network and its center of excellence being proactive and aspiring for zero defects across the network with 100 organizational engagement.

We are seeking an experienced selfdriven and strategic Data Engineer with superior data modeling and analytical skills. This position is critical in building scalable and generic data models that power our global operational excellence initiatives. You will be part of a dynamic team working alongside Applied Scientist Software development engineer and business intelligence engineers all close to the business with Performance Management Leads part of the same team.

In this role you will contribute across all layers of our data solution ecosystem. Youll work closely with software development engineers to implement robust data infrastructure solutions collaborate with product managers to build scalable data models and dive deep into our data with a strong bias for action to generate insights that drive business improvements. Your work will directly impact Amazons operational efficiency and customer experience worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
Key responsibilities include translating business requirements into modular and generic data infrastructure implementing and managing scalable data platforms that facilitate selfservice insights generation and scientific model building and handling largescale datasets while creating maintainable efficient data components. Youll design and implement automation to achieve Best at Amazon standards for system efficiency IMR efficiency data availability consistency and compliance.

Working within a sophisticated technical environment youll interface with various technology teams to extract transform and load data from diverse sources using SQL Amazon and AWS big data technologies. Youll enable efficient data exploration and experimentation on our data platform while implementing appropriate data access control mechanisms.

Your role will be instrumental in driving operational excellence within the team building automation and mechanisms to reduce operations overhead and collaborating with peers in a group of talented engineers. Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential as is the ability to deliver highquality results in a fastpaced environment.

To succeed in this role you should have extensive experience in data engineering with largescale systems expertlevel knowledge of distributed systems and big data technologies and strong programming skills. Experience with realtime data processing and streaming architectures is essential as is a track record of building systems supporting ML operations at scale.

The GOX team has earned recognition for creating tools and systems that drive operational excellence across Amazons global network. Join us in shaping the future of operational excellence at Amazon where your work will directly contribute to improving our worldwide operations and customer experience.

About the team
GOX team is the engine of Amazon Operational excellence at the heart of the fulfillment network operations aspiring zero defects. It is our purpose to improve Customer Experience through flawless fulfillment focused on 1 successful ontime delivery 2 at speed and 3 at the lowest possible cost. Our Solutions support ontime delivery of billions of packages to our customers across the globe leveraging AI & Generative AI technology.

Experience in data engineering
Experience with data modeling warehousing and building ETL pipelines
Experience with SQL
Experience mentoring team members on best practices

Experience with big data technologies such as: Hadoop Hive Spark EMR
Experience operating large data warehouses

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover invent simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Noticeto know more about how we collect use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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Required Experience:

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Key Skills
Apache Hive,S3,Hadoop,Redshift,Spark,AWS,Apache Pig,NoSQL,Big Data,Data Warehouse,Kafka,Scala
Employment Type :Full-Time
Department / Functional Area:Data Engineering
Experience:years
Vacancy:1

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