Data Engineer, Alexa AI

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Interested in Amazon Alexa? The Alexa AI team is building the speech and language solutions that drive Amazon Alexa and other Amazon products and services. Come join us!

We are looking for a qualified Data Engineer who relishes working with extremely large volumes of data, enjoys the challenge of highly complex technical contexts, and above all, is passionate about data and analytics.

The ideal candidate will be an expert with SQL, ETL (and general data wrangling), data visualization. The candidate will need to be analytical, a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, and able to think big while paying careful attention to detail.

Responsibilities:
· Interface with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL
· Database development and maintenance
· Model data and metadata for ad hoc and pre-built reporting
· Own the development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions
· Recognize and adopt best practices for database optimization: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation
· Meet tight deadlines, multi-task, and prioritize workload

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
· 3+ years of experience with SQL, ETL, and databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets
· 3+ years of experience in maintaining data warehouse systems and working on large scale data transformation using AWS technologies,
· 2+ years of coding experience in at least one modern programming language (Python, Ruby, Scala, Java, etc.)