Data Engineer - Front End/UI, Accounting

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a data engineering professional to support its Accounting BI team. You will automate reporting, build scalable data platforms, and enable timely financial insights across the organization.

The role blends back-end and front-end work, leveraging AWS services and modern data tools to empower business units with actionable analytics. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, delivering robust data architectures, scalable UI/data tooling, and best practices across the software

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience with SQL.
• Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS.
• Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience with non-relational databases / data stores (object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases)

Responsibilities

• Identify and scope the right data architecture and technology to facilitate analysis of Amazon customer behavioral questions.
• Partner engineering teams to enhance UI solutions, data infrastructure, data availability, and broad access to customer insights via BI tools.
• Design, build and implement the right solutions using AWS and similar technologies.
• Enable large-scale solutions using Python, React, JavaScript, Typescript and AWS services.
• Establish technology best practices across the organization.
• Work on proofs of concepts for adoption of new technology and tools

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python/Java/Scala/NodeJS

AWS

Software development lifecycle

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

AWS Redshift

S3

AWS Glue

EMR

Kinesis

Firehose

Lambda

IAM

Job description

Description

The Accounting BI team supports the global Accounting organization with process automation/improvements, developing automated reporting solutions/tools, and improving the ability of the accounting organization to process, analyze, access and consume accurate and timely financial data. The team supports the global accounting organization and partners closely with all technical roles across the org and various businesses and industries Amazon operates in.

The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, relishes working with ambiguity, data, and enjoys the challenges of highly complex business context. This role requires an individual with a strong back-end and front-end background to maintain our web portal, deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, optimizing data for business intelligence solutions, and the ability to quickly learn, adapt and work with a variety of technologies. You should have excellent business and communication skills to be able to work with business owners to develop and define key business questions, and build solutions that help to answer those questions. You should have excellent business and communication skills to be able to work with business owners to develop and define key business questions, and build solutions that help to answer those questions. You should be able to architect highly efficient UI solutions (front and back end), making a tradeoff between scalability, performance and user functionality needs, using expert knowledge in software development technologies

The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, relishes working with ambiguity, big data, UI components and enjoys the challenges of highly complex business context.

Key job responsibilities

Working with stakeholders and other engineering teams to identify and scope the right data architecture and technology to be used to facilitate analysis of most common Amazon customer behavioral questions.

Partnering with partner engineering teams to enhance UI solutions, data infrastructure, data availability, and broad access to customer insights made available through BI tools across the organization.

Design, build and implement the right solutions using AWS and similar technologies.

Enable large scale solutions using Python, React, JavaScript, Typescript and AWS services.

Establishing and implementing technology best practices that should be followed across the organization.

Work on proof of concepts for adoption of new technology and tools

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience

• Experience with SQL

• Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS

• Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions

• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

• Bachelor's degree

• Experience with non-relational databases / data stores (object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our 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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, VA, Arlington - 132,100.00 - 178,800.00 USD annually