Principal Data Engineer, Intelligent Talent Acquisition

About This Role

Leading high-scope technical projects within the Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA) Data team and in partnership with multiple technical stakeholders across Amazon Talent Acquisition and People Experience & Technology organizations is the core of this role. The Principal Data Engineer will lead technical strategy for high-quality data provision, design and develop high-impact products, and mentor data engineers. This role involves reinventing the hiring process to deliver unprecedented scale, sophistication, and accuracy for Amazon Talent Acquisition operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the technical strategy for the ITA organization with a specific focus on how to bring both transactional and analytical data together
• Advise on overall data strategy for PxT Consumer
• Lead designing new services and complex features within existing services
• Lead capability reviews of ITA data infrastructure identifying improvements in existing services and/or identifying critical gaps in the data ecosystem
• Design and implement the interfaces with partner organizations
• Hands-on development on organization-level critical projects
• Develop, coach and mentor engineers across ITA to up-skill the organization
• Lead technical design review meetings for data services across People Experience Technology Consumer

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical field or equivalent
• Design, implementation, or consulting experience with distributed applications or related field
• Data engineering experience or related field

Nice to have:

• Experience working with Data/Research Scientists who require models to be put into production for a variety of models (e.g., predictions, optimization and natural language processing)
• Experience with Human Resources Privacy regulations and strategies to manage personally identifiable data worldwide whilst using state-of-the-art solutions to enforce compliance with regulations
• Experience with Transaction and Real Time Data Services

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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
• Parental leave

About the Company

Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA) is an industry-leading people science and technology organization made up of scientists, engineers, analysts, product professionals and more, all with the shared goal of connecting the right people to the right jobs in a way that is fair and precise. Last year, ITA delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments and helped Amazon deliver billions of packages around the world by making it possible to hire hundreds of thousands of workers in the right quantity, at the right location, and at exactly the right time. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer.