Sr. Business Intelligence Engineer, Advertising Finance

Amazon seeks a Senior Business Intelligence Engineer with strong technical, analytical, and business intelligence skill sets and experience to be a key partner for Amazon’s Advertising businesses.

This role will be the key contributor supporting multiple ads publisher businesses, including Amazon Stores (amazon.com), Amazon Business Ads (AB Ads) , and Books Ads team. The person will build out the business insights, analysis practice, and data infrastructure for relevant Ads stakeholders, gaining visibility across Ads, Retail, and Finance organizations. We generate insights to guide product and partner strategy (including Sales and Demand Generation), and we provide direct business strategy support to senior leaders. We are motivated to improve ads experience for both advertisers and shoppers.

As a key analytics partner, the Senior Business Intelligence Engineer will influence the direction of the business by leveraging our data to deliver insights that drive decisions and actions. This role involves translating broad business problems into specific analytics projects, conducting deep quantitative analyses, and communicating results effectively. We see a high potential for growth in this role as we transform our data into actionable insights to continue to fuel the growth of this business. The role will help the organization identify, evaluate, and evangelize new techniques and tools to continue to improve our ability to deliver value to Amazon’s Customers.

This role requires an individual with excellent business, communication, and technical skills, enabling collaboration with various functions, including Product Managers, Data Engineers, Finance Managers, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, as well as senior leadership. The successful candidate will be a self-starter thriving in ambiguity and challenges; competent in handling complex and large datasets and open business problems. The person has strong ownership and an ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing, and high-energy environment.

Key job responsibilities
- Support new initiatives and provide data ownership end-to-end with business stakeholders; drive continued growth through data insights
- Review existing data challenges to deliver a comprehensive solution with appropriate data strategy and tools
- Design, develop, build, and maintain scalable data solutions, including infrastructure, pipeline, reporting, to support long-term business strategies
- Simplify and re-invent current data solutions to support the business scope expansion
- Identify and implement solutions for managing data across publisher ads business to maximize synergy and efficiency
- Translate business problems into data questions, find solutions to solve those questions with resourcefulness
- Identify areas of opportunities and present analytical findings and recommendations to business leadership
- Work cross-functionally with other teams in various job families to gather data sources to provide a comprehensive view of the business, inclusive of supply, demand, sales, operations, shopper, etc.
- Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting/analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation

This role promises to give exposure to a high growth business. This BIE will be actively involved in reinventing data solutions, learning new tools, building new metrics, understanding impact of product changes, and identifying opportunities for growth through exploratory analyses.

About the team
The APM Advertising Finance team supports various publishers, including Stores, Amazon Business, Books, Grocery/Physical Store, Devices, Video, Audio. Our focus is to accelerate top-line revenue and improve profitability by evaluating overall ad supply monetization and utilization, product feature or sales package adoption, campaign performance, and other various product drivers of growth.

Basic Qualifications

- 10+ 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 with AWS technologies
- 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
- Experience using Cloud Storage and Computing technologies such as AWS Redshift, S3, Hadoop, etc.
- Knowledge of data warehousing and data modeling
- Experience in understanding and translating ambiguous and complex business problems into data solutions and presenting findings to the leadership

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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.