Business Intel Engineer II, SCOT Automated Inventory Management

The Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) organization owns Amazons global inventory management systems: we decide what when where and how much we should buy to meet Amazons business goals and to make our customers happy. We do this for millions of items for hundreds of product lines worth billions of dollars of inventory world-wide. Our systems are built entirely in-house and are automated large-scale business operations inventory and supply chain planning and optimization systems. We foster new game-changing ideas creating ever more intelligent and self-learning systems to maximize the efficiency of Amazons inventory investment and placement decisions.

The Automated Inventory Management team within SCOT seeks an experienced and motivated Business Intelligence Engineer to develop analytical models and tools to automate the auditing of the SCOT systems. Such tools may include algorithms metric bridges dashboards processes and workflow systems.

The successful candidate will have strong quantitative data mining and modeling skills and be comfortable working on new and sometimes ambiguous problems from concept through to execution. They will have strong communication and leadership skills will be able to collaborate with other teams (e.g. software development business owners product managers) and to present findings to senior audiences to drive business improvements. As well we expect this candidate to raise the bar on any of the following categories: Data Warehousing Data Architecture Performant Self Service Toolsets and Data analytics. Candidate might be willing to work with the others BIEs in order to solve organizational problems at scale and setting the grounds of a healthy data products offer while delivering what is required by business.


Key job responsibilities
- Performing complex analysis to understand the behavior of automated inventory management systems identify the root cause of system / process issues and provide insight on potential solutions.
- Building audits (analytical products) to identify trend breaks or defects at scale for millions of products and multiple Marketplaces globally
- Assessing the end-to-end suite of audits and identifying opportunities for enhancements and simplification working with other audit owners
- Creating new solutions to automate the business process of identifying and resolving defects (e.g. through metric dashboards and automated alarms self service dashboard Single source of truth tables)
- Supporting the improvement of the automated audit workflow system: integrating new audits and providing input on the future developments/roadmap
- Developing dashboards and insight products
- Fostering culture of continuous engineering improvement through blueprints mentoring feedback and metrics

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location the number of regularly scheduled hours you work length of employment and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.

The benefits that generally apply to regular full-time employees include:
- Medical Dental and Vision Coverage
- Maternity and Parental Leave Options
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly wed still love to hear from you!

At Amazon we value people with unique backgrounds experiences and skillsets. If youre passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale please apply!

- Experience in analyzing and interpreting data with Redshift Oracle NoSQL etc.
- Experience with data visualization using Tableau Quicksight or similar tools
- Experience with data modeling warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience in Statistical Analysis packages such as R SAS and Matlab
- Experience using SQL to pull data from a database or data warehouse and scripting experience (Python) to process data for modeling
- Experience in the data/BI space
- Bachelors degree in engineering statistics computer science mathematics or a related quantitative field

- 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
- Masters degree or above in a quantitative field

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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 WA Bellevue - 99500.00 - 160000.00 USD annually