Business Intelligence Engineer - Advertising Finance

Description

Amazon seeks a Business Intelligence Engineer with strong technical, analytical, and business intelligence skill sets and experience to be a key partner for Amazon's Advertising business focusing on Amazon.com across all ad programs.

This role will be the key contributor on the Advertising Publisher Monetization Finance team, supporting publishers such as Amazon.com, Prime Video, Alexa, Twitch, Fire TV, Audio, Live Sports, PubTech, Amazon Business, and Books Ads. The person will own the Amazon Business Ads landscape initially and evolve into supporting all Stores and Verticals publishers. The person will build out the business insights, analysis practices, and data infrastructure for APM stakeholders, gaining visibility across Ads, Retail, and Finance organizations. The team generates insights to guide product and partner strategy and provides direct business strategy support to senior leaders. We are motivated to improve the overall experience for both our advertisers and shoppers through Ads.

As a key analytics partner, the Business Intelligence Engineer will influence the direction of the business by leveraging our data to deliver insights that drive decisions and actions. This role involves translating broad business problems into specific analytics projects, conducting deep quantitative analyses, and communicating results effectively. We see high potential for growth in this role as we transform our data into actionable insights to continue to fuel the growth of this business. The role will help the organization identify, evaluate, and evangelize new techniques and tools to further improve our ability to deliver value to Amazon's customers.

This role requires an individual with excellent business acumen, communication, and technical skills, enabling collaboration with various functions, including product managers, data engineers, finance managers, software engineers, data scientists, as well as senior leadership. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, complex datasets, and challenging business problems. The person will demonstrate strong ownership and an ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing, and high-energy environment.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities

Design, develop, build, and maintain scalable data solutions, including infrastructure, pipeline, reporting, to support long-term business strategies
Simplify and re-invent current data solutions to support the business scope expansion
Explore and deep dive into new areas across various ad programs as well as business functions to support business decision making
Translate business problems into data questions, find solutions to solve those questions with resourcefulness
Present analytical findings and recommendations to business leadership
Work cross-functionally with other teams in various job families to gather data sources to provide a comprehensive view of the business, inclusive of supply, demand, sales, operations, shopper, etc.
Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting/analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation


This role promises to give exposure to a high growth business. This BIE will be actively involved in building new metrics, understanding impact of product changes, and identifying opportunities for growth through exploratory analyses including use of lightweight statistical techniques. This role provides the opportunity to use emerging technologies such as machine learning to build models and tools used by management for strategic decision making.

About the team
The APM Advertising Finance team supports various publishers, including Stores, Amazon Business, Books, Grocery, Devices, Video, Audio. Our focus is to accelerate top-line revenue and improve profitability by evaluating overall ad supply monetization and utilization, product feature or sales package adoption, campaign performance, and other various product drivers of growth.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of analyzing and interpreting data with Redshift, Oracle, NoSQL etc. experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience writing complex SQL queries
- Experience using SQL to pull data from a database or data warehouse and scripting experience (Python) to process data for modeling
- Experience in Statistical Analysis packages such as R, SAS and Matlab
- Experience with data visualization using Tableau, Quicksight, or similar tools
- Knowledge of SQL and data warehousing concepts

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with AWS solutions such as EC2, DynamoDB, S3, and Redshift
- Experience in data mining, ETL, etc. and using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets
- Experience in understanding and translating ambiguous and complex business problems into data solutions and presenting findings to the leadership

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.