Business Intelligence Engineer, Books Content Acquisition Analytics

DESCRIPTIONAt Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. The Books Content Acquisition Analytics team is looking for a strong Sr. Business Intelligence Engineer to build robust data products that help our diverse product/programs teams to improve publisher and vendor experience, help vendors grow, and help with new marketplaces and new product categories launches.We are looking for an experienced, data-driven, and customer-obsessed business intelligence engineer. You will partner with teams like publisher experience, software development, central retail, finance teams to understand the business problems/gaps in reporting. You would then frame analytical solution/reporting product that address the business problem. You will use a combination of analytics, programming, data mining skills and reporting platforms (QuickSight, Datanet, Cradle, Excel) to develop internal self-service tools that can scale for Amazon global books content organization. This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities, knowledge of business intelligence solutions, as well as business acumen and the ability to work with quantitative problems and automation. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, has strong attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, and driven by a desire to innovate in this space.Key job responsibilities* Build scalable solutions / self-serve platforms that will provide data / KPIs to inform business decision making* Apply data mining and quantitative analysis to understand ways to improve our content selection for customers* Analyze and solve business problems with focus on understanding root causes and driving forward-looking opportunities* Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing performance metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions* Build various data visualizations to tell the story and let the data speak for itself* Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation* Proactively developing new metrics and studies to quantify user behaviorA day in the lifeEngage with product, program, vendor, account managers to understand business problems.Translate business problems into analytical solutions (data extracts, self-serve dashboards, ML solution).Identify and source data creatively from bespoke data sources. Partner with analytics peer group to validate data/assumptions.Participate in trainings to learn about the business and evolving best practices in the analytic functional space.Proactively identify analytics opportunities, write papers, drive alignments with customers and execute on the aligned roadmap.About the teamBCAA (Books Content Aquisition Analytics) supports the data, reporting and analytics, self-serve tool development needs of Books Content Acquisition organizationBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of analyzing and interpreting data with Redshift, Oracle, NoSQL etc. experience- Experience with data visualization using Tableau, Quicksight, or similar tools- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines- Experience writing complex SQL queries- Experience developing and presenting recommendations of new metrics allowing better understanding of the performance of the business- Experience using SQL to pull data from a database or data warehouse and scripting experience (Python) to process data for modelingPREFERRED 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 with statistical analytics, forecasting, and scripting language such as Python.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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