Sr. Data Engineer, Global Procurement Technology, Global Procurement Tech

- 6+ years of data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence or business analytics experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS
- Experience mentoring team members on best practices
- Experience building data products incrementally and integrating and managing data sets from multiple sources
- Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
- Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe data modeling decisions and data engineering strategy
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers for best practices on data engineering
- Experience with big data technologies such as: Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR
- Experience operating large data warehouses

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $139,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $240,500/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.
Are you a talented and inventive engineer, who insists on the highest standards, with a strong passion about modern data technologies and interested in improving business processes by building up solutions to extract valuable insights from the data?

The Global Procurement Technology, as a fundamental pillar of Global Procurement Operations, is looking for a skilled Data Engineer to contribute to related engineering activities and help build its future data ecosystem. This team plays a strategic role supporting the core Procurement business domains as well as being the cornerstone of any transformation and innovation initiative. Our mission is to provide a high-quality data environment to facilitate process optimization and business digitalization on a global scale. We are supporting various initiatives, including but not limited to:
- strategic supplier sourcing
- contract management
- spend analytics
- order management
- supplier risk and performance analysis

We are seeking an individual who can thrive in a fast-paced work environment, be collaborative in sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues. You will connect with world leaders in your field and you will be tackling Data Engineering challenges to ensure business continuity and high-quality decision making, working backwards with your customers.

Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Data Engineer in the team, you will:
- create data strategy and architecture to incrementally build data products
- lead design and development of highly scalable database systems to support transactional use cases, as well as business analytics and reporting
- design and implement AI-based data solutions
- be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for data solutions, while striving for efficiency by aligning data product initiatives with business goals
- cooperate with different groups of stakeholders, e.g. engineers, scientists, product/program managers, leadership, etc. to properly evaluate any requirements or dependencies and recommend optimal solutions to the problems
- lead a team of data engineers to define data standards and best practices, share knowledge, develop their skills and support their career growth

Some of the projects this team is working on:
- A Supplier Trusted Data Repository, utilized not only by the Procurement org but pan-Amazon
- A Data Cataloguing application
- A Data Quality Framework with related Services
- A Manual Data Ingestion Management Framework
- An ETL Self-Serve Framework for tech (and non-tech) users to easily set up data pipelines to feed applications and analytics/reporting