Amazon is looking for a Business Intelligence Engineer to help manage our ever growing information needs and support analysis of increasingly complex business questions. You will seek out hidden and valuable correlations between the easily-measurable and the hard-to-quantify, within immense volumes of real-world data. You will also formulate quantitative metrics which allow us to track our progress, and then devise creative measurement and audit solutions which allow us to track those metrics with minimal cost and human effort. You will provide input into business and technical direction, steering broader solutions in support of these objectives. This role is expected to push the boundaries of measurability without sacrificing rigor.
· Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering, or Statistics in a field of experimental science · Programming skills sufficient to extract, transform, and clean large (multi-TB) data sets in a Unix/Linux environment · Knowledge of scripting for automation (e.g. Python, Perl, Ruby) · Experience in data mining and optimizing database query performance in SQL or Oracle Knowledge and direct experience using statistical packages and business intelligence tools such as SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS, or R · Exemplary communication skills, ability to work with large cross