Summary: The role of Data Engineer for Prime Video at Amazon involves supporting the strategy and performance of the service through business intelligence and data solutions. The engineer will be responsible for producing key business reports, building scalable data solutions, and collaborating with various stakeholders to translate challenges into technical requirements. This position requires solving complex data warehousing problems and optimizing data processes to enhance decision-making across Prime Video. The role is set in a dynamic environment focused on innovation and customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce key business reporting to leadership and build scalable data solutions.
- Perform ad-hoc deep dives to understand and value performance metrics.
- Create complex data ingestion pipelines for critical data sources.
- Develop actionable KPIs for business teams.
- Collaborate with Finance and Business stakeholders to identify challenges and translate them into technical requirements.
- Apply cloud-based AWS services to solve big data processing and data warehouse design problems.
- Focus on automation and optimization for DW/ETL maintenance and deployment.
- Deliver data products that support strategic decision-making for Prime Video.
- Develop efficient systems and tools to process data, accommodating future growth.
Key Skills:
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing, and building ETL pipelines.
- Proficiency in one or more query languages (e.g., SQL, PL/SQL, DDL, MDX, HiveQL, SparkSQL, Scala).
- Experience with one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, KornShell).
- Experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role.
- Familiarity with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR.
- Experience with ETL tools like Informatica, ODI, SSIS, BODI, Datastage.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
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Description
Amazon's Prime Video is a premium on-demand video entertainment service that offers customers the greatest choice in what to watch from popular Amazon Original TV shows such as The Grand Tour, Jack Ryan, The Boys and the recent Golden Globe winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, to Original Movies like the Oscar-winning Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman. The service also offers TV shows that are exclusively available for Prime members in each country such as American Gods, Mr Robot and Outlander, and more recently live sport including the US Open tennis and Premier League football. Prime Video is at the forefront of the entertainment industry and growing fast - now available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide - and we work in a dynamic, and exciting environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.
Prime Video Finance BI team seeks a business intelligence engineer to support Prime Video strategy and performance. You will be responsible for the production of key business reporting to leadership, building scalable data solutions to complex problems and performing ad-hoc deep dives to better understand and value performance metrics. You will work with upstream tech teams to create complex data ingestion pipelines for critical data sources, and create actionable KPIs for business teams. In this role, you will also work with key business stakeholders from Finance and Business organizations to identify challenges and translate them into technical requirements that can be solved with BI and Analytics tools.
Key job responsibilities
- You'll solve data warehousing problems on a massive scale and apply cloud-based AWS services to solve challenging problems around: big data processing, data warehouse design, self-service data access, automated data quality detection and building infrastructure as a code.
- You'll be part of the team that focuses on automation and optimization for all areas of DW/ETL maintenance and deployment.
- You'll work closely with global business partners and technical teams on many non-standard and unique business problems and use creative problem solving to deliver data products that underpin Prime Video strategic decision making, from content selection to on-platform customer experience.
- You'll develop efficient systems and tools to process data, using technologies than can scale to seasonal spikes and easily accommodate future growth.
- Your work will have a direct impact on the day-to-day decision making across Prime Video.
Basic Qualifications
- 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)
- Experience with SQL
- Experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role
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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