Sr. BIE, JP CPEX BIML
DESCRIPTION
Are you interested in driving solutions that balance packaging and automation in a way that increases speed, reduces cost and ultimately delights our customer? Amazon Japan seeks a Business Intelligence Engineer to join the CPEX (Customer Packaging Experience) team based in Tokyo, Japan.
This role is highly technical as well as analytical and requires an individual with excellent analytical and statistical skills and deep knowledge of business intelligence solutions. You will be surrounded by people who have passion for data analytics, be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, have strong attention to detail, have an ability to work in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment, and have a desire to innovate Amazon’s approaches.
Key job responsibilities
• Engage with leadership and diversified functional groups to understand the needs and recommend business intelligence solutions.
• Own the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable solutions for ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, and dashboards, etc. to support analytical and business needs.
• Partner with technology teams to define, extract, transform, and load data from many sources using SQL and other tools.
• Build and analyze key metrics to uncover trends and root causes of issues and/or find opportunities for contentious improvements.
• Conduct deep dive analyses of business problems and data issues and formulate conclusions and recommendations for leadership and technical teams.
• Seek to leverage machine learning technologies at a large scale and conceptualize benefits which may be derived in the area of package improvement.
• Localize cutting edge technologies which are not yet available in Japan by deeply understanding Amazon's operating systems and engaging closely with ML scientists, BIEs, PMs based in the US and India.
• Develop mechanism to enrich customer's experiences, optimize operating processes and reduce cost at a large scale by capitalizing on big data and machine learning techniques.
A day in the life
You will dedicate 60~70% of your time to assigned projects and remaining 30~40% to Ad Hoc data/analysis requests from internal customers. You will sync up with your BIML team members and project stakeholders on a weekly basis. Lastly, you will have a weekly 101 with your manager to align resource allocation and seek their feedback or advice on your daily works. The team also holds an offsite meeting every quarter to discuss team's growth strategy and enhance collaboration within the team.
About the team
JP CPEX BIML team consists of 7 members (including you) who are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class BI is critical to our success.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of SQL experience
- Experience in the data/BI space
- Experience with data visualization using Tableau, Quicksight, or similar tools
- Experience programming to extract, transform and clean large (multi-TB) data sets
- Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills.
- Experience with theory and practice of design of experiments and statistical analysis of results
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs
- Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership