Principal Data Engineer, Intelligent Talent Acquisition

Amazon • Arlington, VA

17d

About The Position

As part of Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA) Data team, you'll have the
opportunity to reinvent the hiring process and deliver unprecedented scale,
sophistication, and accuracy for Amazon Talent Acquisition operations. 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 we 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. You’ll work on
state-of-the-art research, advanced software tools, new AI systems, and machine
learning algorithms, leveraging Amazon's in-house tech stack to bring innovative
solutions to life. Join ITA in using technologies to transform the hiring
landscape and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Together, we can
solve the world's toughest hiring problems.

The Principal Data Engineer will lead high scope technical projects within ITA
and in partnership with multiple technical stakeholders across Amazon Talent
Acquisition and People Experience & Technology organizations. Within ITA, the
Principal Data Engineer will lead technical strategy to ensure high quality data
provision end to end across eight major data services, technical design and
hands on development of high impact and complex products and mentoring data
engineers in best practice across the organization. Outside ITA, the Principal
Data Engineer will partner with technical organizations (both upstream and
downstream) to develop scalable interoperability solutions for Amazon Talent
Acquisition.

Requirements

• Bachelors 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 Haves

• 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 world-wide whilst using state of the art solutions to enforce compliance with regulations.
• Experience with Transaction and Real Time Data Services

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 including, but not limited to:
• 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.

Benefits

• 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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal