Data Engineer II, Talent Development
The Growth and Onboarding tech team builds the platform that powers personalized onboarding and development experiences for Amazonians worldwide. Our growth requires engineers who move fast, have an entrepreneurial spirit to create new solutions, have an unrelenting tenacity to get things done, and are capable of breaking down and solving complex problems. Your pipelines will directly shape how millions of employees discover upskilling opportunities, professional development programs, and career advancement pathways.
The successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to design and maintain efficient, automated data architectures from the ground up. They know and love working with data engineering tools, can model multidimensional datasets, and can partner effectively with BI Engineers, Data Scientists, and Learning Scientists to build the right pipelines to answer key questions about how people learn and grow at Amazon. They will build efficient, flexible, extensible, and scalable data models, ETL designs, and data integration services. They will also own the full lifecycle of these solutions: design, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
This is a greenfield platform with high visibility to senior leadership and high opportunity for impact for those willing to roll up their sleeves and dive deep. You will set the technical bar for data quality and reliability on a system that touches the career trajectory of every Amazonian. We're working hard, having fun, making history. Come join us!
Key job responsibilities
Gather business and functional requirements and translate these requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions with a flexible and adaptable data architecture.
Contribute to the architecture and implementation of next generation data solutions from the ground up.
Manage AWS resources including S3, Athena, Batch, lambda etc.
Optimize automated processes for performance and fault tolerance.
Optimize support for ad-hoc analysis across various data sources
Collaborate with BI Engineers, Software Engineers, and cross-functionally to deliver high quality data architecture and pipelines.
Make large and/or complex data more accessible, understandable and usable by applications and teams.