Senior Data Engineer, Data Center Capacity Delivery

AWS Data Center Capacity Delivery (DCCD) is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to support data center construction globally. We work on the most challenging problems with thousands of variables impacting the data center delivery and were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers construction specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. Youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Were looking for Data Engineer to help us grow our Data Lake and Data Warehouse Systems which is being built using a serverless architecture with 100% native AWS components including Redshift Spectrum Athena S3 Lambda Glue EMR Kinesis SNS CloudWatch and more! We own a world-class data lake that is used to drive multi-billion dollar decisions on a regular cadence and were looking to improve on filling the lake quickly with as little human intervention needed and democratize the data in the lake.

Our Data Engineers build the ETL and analytics solutions for our internal customers to answer questions with data and drive critical improvements for the business. Our Data Engineers use best practices in software engineering data management data storage data compute and distributed systems. We are passionate about solving business problems with data!

Key job responsibilities

Develop and maintain automated ETL pipelines (with monitoring) using scripting languages such as Python Spark SQL and AWS services such as S3 Glue Lambda SNS SQS KMS.

Implement and support reporting and analytics infrastructure for internal business customers.

Develop and maintain data security and permissions solutions for enterprise scale data warehouse and data lake implementations including data encryption and database user access controls and logging.

Develop data objects for business analytics using data modeling techniques.

Develop and optimize data warehouse and data lake tables using best practices for DDL physical and logical tables data partitioning compression and parallelization.

Develop and maintain data warehouse and data lake metadata data catalog and user documentation for internal business customers.

Work with internal business customers and software development teams to gather and document requirements for data publishing and data consumption via data warehouse data lake and analytics solutions.

- 5 years of data engineering experience
- Experience with data modeling warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience with SQL
- Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language such as Python Java Scala or NodeJS
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Science Information Technology Engineering Mathematics Physics or a related field

- Experience with big data technologies such as: Hadoop Hive Spark EMR
- Experience operating large data warehouses
- Experience mentoring team members on best practices

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $139100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $240500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.