Amazon's worldwide pricing team is looking for a talented Data Engineer to deliver business intelligence solutions for decision support and strategic planning. Data plays a key role in the evolution of our pricing algorithms to solve the world's most complex technical challenges in pricing optimization, large-scale computing, distributed systems, web applications, algorithms and data mining. Pricing systems are responsible for determining and publishing prices automatically, with little to no manual intervention, for the millions of items that Amazon sells worldwide ranging from Books to Consumer Electronics to Shoes. Our ideal candidate has a combination of strong technical skills, superb analytical capabilities, outstanding business insight, and excellent verbal and written communication skills. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work with one of the largest and most complex data warehouses in the world to gather insights using data from across Amazon. You will
Bachelor degree and 3+ years of relevant work experience * Demonstrable skills and experience using SQL with large data sets (for example, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server) * Experience in data mining (SQL, ETL, data warehouse, etc.) and using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets * Microsoft Excel experience * Excellent verbal and written communication skills* Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent * Familiarity with statistical models and data mining algorithms * Experience with Hadoop or other map/reduce "big data" systems and services * Experience with high