Data Engineer, WW Ops Finance - S&A
Job Description
Amazon is hiring a customer-centric Data Engineer to help build and scale a unified data management and discovery platform for global Finance teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL workflows using Python, SQL, and AWS services (S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, EMR, MWAA)
- Develop and optimize data models, metadata management frameworks, and catalog systems to enable fast, reliable data discovery for thousands of internal customers
- Build and maintain microservices and APIs using API Gateway and Lambda to support platform capabilities such as search, data ingestion, and cross-service integrations
- Implement data quality frameworks, monitoring, and alerting to maintain reliability, freshness, and governance compliance
- Automate data onboarding and self-service workflows to reduce manual work and improve time-to-insight
- Partner with product managers, BI engineers, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Participate in system design, code reviews, and operational excellence practices including incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
- Contribute to GenAI-powered features and AI-driven workflows that improve the data discovery and analytics experience
Requirements
- 3+ years of data engineering experience
- 1+ year developing and operating large-scale data structures for business intelligence analytics using OLAP technologies
- 1+ year developing and operating large-scale data structures for business intelligence analytics using SQL
- 1+ year developing and operating large-scale data structures for business intelligence analytics using Oracle
- 1+ year developing and operating large-scale data structures using ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) processes
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related field
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing, and building ETL pipelines
Technology Stack
- Python, SQL
- AWS services: S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, EMR, MWAA
- API Gateway, ETL, ELT
- Oracle
- OLAP technologies, DataZone, OpenSearch
- Kinesis, FireHose, IAM roles and permissions
- Non-relational databases/data stores: object storage, document/key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases
- Apache Spark, Elastic Map Reduce
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS technologies such as Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions
- Experience with non-relational databases/data stores (object storage, document/key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases)
- Experience with Apache Spark / Elastic Map Reduce
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- EAP
- Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
About the Team
- Worldwide Operations Finance Standardization & Automation (S&A) organization
- Building a unified data management and discovery platform serving global Finance teams
- Platform includes a dataset catalog, metric catalog, AI assistant, and interactive query experience to help thousands of customers find and act on data faster
- Rapid scaling to support 10+ domains and data producer teams
- Tech includes AWS services (DataZone, OpenSearch, API Gateway, Lambda), microservices architecture, and modern frontend frameworks
Location: Bellevue, WA (onsite)
Compensation: USD 132,100 - 178,800 per year