DESCRIPTIONThe Amazon MENA product team is looking for an analytical and technically skilled business intelligence engineer to join our team. MENA product team turns disparate, raw data into actionable insights that improve every customer\'s ability to securely discover, evaluate, and purchase products and services across the Amazon store. We own the analytics for the Navigation, Homepage, Inspire, App First, Detail Page, Cart, Checkout and Add-to-Cart. We are looking for a Business Intelligence Engineer to lead data analytics and drive critical product decisions for MENA product team.
We\'re looking for a driven individual who loves working with BI tools, and able to perform multiple large, complex, and business critical analyses that will inform Shopping product design and business priorities. Individual should be comfortable accessing and working with data from multiple sources, can automate business critical reports and can partner with internal stakeholders to solve complex and broad business problems with analytically derived solutions. The successful candidate has a strong passion for data and analytics, is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, and has ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, and able to think big while paying careful attention to detail.Key job responsibilities
1. Interface/interact with business & finance customers, gathering requirements and delivering complete BI solutions. Helps define the team\'s BI strategy.
2. Own the design, development, and maintenance of metrics, reports, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions across multiple teams.
3. Continually improve ongoing reporting and processes, automating, scaling or simplifying self-service support for customers.
4. Write high quality code to retrieve and analyze our large and complex data sets.
5. Identify patterns in our data and use these insights to make data-driven recommendations to drive topline growth and to improve profitability.
6. Develop an understanding of key business metrics / KPIs and providing clear, compelling analysis that shapes the direction of our business.A day in the life
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of professional or military experience
- 5+ years of SQL experience
- Experience programming to extract, transform and clean large (multi-TB) data sets
- Experience with theory and practice of design of experiments and statistical analysis of results
- Experience in the data/BI space
- Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs
- Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadershipWe are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Dubai, AREBASIC 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 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 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

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