Data Engineer, ITA

Do you want a role with deep meaning and the ability to make a massive impact? Hiring top talent is not only critical to Amazon’s success—it can literally change the world. It took a lot of great hires to deliver innovations like AWS, Prime, and Alexa, which make life better for millions of customers around the world every day. As part of the Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA) team, you'll have the opportunity to reinvent the hiring process and deliver unprecedented scale, sophistication, and accuracy that Amazon's Talent Acquisition operations need.

ITA is an industry-leading people science and technology organization made up of scientists, engineers, analysts, product professionals and more. Our shared goal is to fairly and precisely connect the right people to the right jobs. Last year, we delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments, replacing the "game of chance" with a merit-based approach that gives candidates the chance to showcase their true skills. Each year we help Amazon deliver billions of packages around the world by making it possible to hire hundreds of thousands of associates in the right quantity, at the right location and at exactly the right time. You’ll work on state-of-the-art research, advanced software tools, new AI systems, and machine learning algorithms to solve complex hiring challenges. Leveraging Amazon's in-house tech stack built on AWS, you'll have the autonomy and flexibility to bring innovative solutions to life. One day, we can bring these solutions to the rest of the world. Join ITA in using technologies to transform the hiring landscape and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Together, we can solve the world's toughest hiring problems.

Within ITA, the Data team delivers high-quality recruiting data, reusable tools, and analytics reporting to Amazon Talent Acquisition customers. The Data team is the engine behind ITA’s success, creating pathways to information upon which all of the organization’s products are built and enabling Amazon to make correct hiring decisions a million times over. Focused on building scalable long term solutions, the team empowers engineers and consumers to develop, access, and analyze data independently with a high degree of data privacy and integrity. As a member of the Data team, you will deliver robust data solutions that drive fair and efficient hiring and rapidly evolve with the needs of the business.

Key job responsibilities
As a Data Engineer with Workforce Intelligence, you will partner with Software Engineers, Data Scientists and Business Intelligence Engineers. You will gain a deep understanding of our services and the data they produce, and become our resident expert in how to transform that data into a format that is useful for analytics and business intelligence. You will proactively help to identify new data for integration with our platform, and propose and implement new technologies to help us better understand our data.

In this role, you will serve as the expert in designing, implementing, and operating a stable, scalable, low cost environment to flow information from the source systems to data warehouse into end-user facing reporting applications such as Tableau or AWS QuickSight. Above all, you will bring large datasets together to answer business questions and drive data-driven decision making.

A day in the life
In this role, you have the opportunity to:

Design, implement and operate large-scale, high-volume, high-performance data structures for analytics and data science.
Implement data ingestion routines both real time and batch using best practices in data modeling, ETL/ELT processes by leveraging AWS technologies and big data tools.
Gather business and functional requirements and translate these requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions with a flexible and adaptable data architecture.
Collaborate with engineers to help adopt best practices in data system creation, data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation
Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service modeling and production support for customers.

About the team
ITA-Data team delivers high-quality recruiting data, reusable tools, and analytics reporting to Amazon Talent Acquisition customers. The Data team is the engine behind ITA’s success, creating pathways to information upon which all of the organization’s products are built and enabling Amazon to make correct hiring decisions a million times over. Focused on building scalable long term solutions, the team empowers engineers and consumers to develop, access, and analyze data independently with a high degree of data privacy and integrity. As a member of the Data team, you will deliver robust data solutions that drive fair and efficient hiring and rapidly evolve with the needs of the business.

Basic Qualifications

- 1+ years of data engineering experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience with one or more query language (e.g., SQL, PL/SQL, DDL, MDX, HiveQL, SparkSQL, Scala)
- Experience with one or more scripting language (e.g., Python, KornShell)

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with big data technologies such as: Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR
- Experience with any ETL tool like, Informatica, ODI, SSIS, BODI, Datastage, etc.

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