Amazon strives to be the world’s most customer-centric company, where customers can research and purchase anything they might want online or offline. We set big goals and are looking for people who can help us reach and exceed them.
Amazon Advertising is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for large brands, small businesses, partners (agencies and advertising software companies) and publishers. Our ad solutions—including sponsored ads, display, video, audio, and custom ads—leverage Amazon’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage audiences throughout their daily journeys. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service, and programmatic ad buying, these solutions help businesses build brand awareness, increase sales, and more.
We are hiring a Business Intelligence Engineer to help us accelerate our efforts in delight our Advertising customers. This person will build new business intelligence solutions as an owner end-to-end. The ideal candidate will be passionate about working with big data sets and have the expertise to utilize these datasets to answer business questions and drive growth.
To be successful in this role, you should have broad skills in database design, be comfortable dealing with large and complex data sets, have experience building self-service dashboards and using visualization tools, always applying analytical rigor to solve business problems. You should have strong business and communication skills and be able to work closely with Amazon Advertising stakeholders to define key business questions and build data sets and models that answer them. Our BIEs/DEs are expected to have a detailed understanding of our business and never lose sight of the broader problems that we are trying to solve.
In addition to leading the design, development, and management of our analytical tools and reporting, we will also look to this person to provide thought leadership and business analysis support as needed.
The successful candidate will demonstrate strong business acumen, experience in developing reporting and analytical infrastructures, strong communication skills, an ability to work effectively with cross functional teams, and an ability to work in a fast paced and ever-changing environment.
The primary responsibilities of this role include:
- Design, develop and maintain scalable, automated, user-friendly systems, reports, dashboards, etc. that will support our analytical and business needs
- Use analytical and statistical rigor to solve complex problems and drive business decisions.
- Write SQL code to retrieve and analyze data from database tables (ex. Redshift, MySQL, DBs), and learn and understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and know how, when, and which to use and which not to use
- Develop queries and visualizations for ad-hoc requests and projects, as well as ongoing reporting

- Location is flexible between NY and SEA.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

. Bachelor's degree in Math/Statistics/Engineering or other equivalent quantitative discipline
· 10+ years experience in Business Intelligence
· Advanced SQL Skills
· Experience with at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Java, C++)
· Strong active listener with solid written and verbal communication skills.
· Experience delivering automated reports using reporting or data visualization tools such as Tableau, Business Objects, QlikView, Quicksight, or MicoStrategy
· Experience designing and working with engineers to build analytics reporting services for production environments

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· MBA or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or related field
· Expert in writing and tuning SQL scripts
· Experience working in very large data warehouse environments
· Experience conducting large scale data analysis to support business decision making


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