Business Intelligence Engineer II, AWS DC Central Operations

Amazon.com Inc

Seattle, WA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Software, Business Solutions, Centralized Operations/Management, Communication Skills, Customer Acquisition, Customer Relations, Customer Training, Data Analysis, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Data Sets, Data Warehousing, Decision Support, Energy Efficiency, Interface Programming Languages, Logistics, Metrics, Network Administration/Management, Network Operations Center, Operational Audit, Operational Support, Performance Metrics, Prototyping, Reporting Dashboards, Resolve Customer Issues, SQL (Structured Query Language), Safety/Work Safety, Systems Engineering, Training Program, Vehicle Fleets, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
12 days ago

Are you passionate about turning operational data into the decisions that run a global data center fleet? Do you want to do that work on a platform that pairs traditional BI with the GenAI capabilities that are reshaping the field?

The Central Infrastructure Analytics Team (CIAT) is the unified source for Infrastructure Operations data and business intelligence solutions across AWS"s global data center fleet. We support Central Operations leaders running rack install, decommission, repair, logistics, capacity optimization, and network operations.

We are looking for a Business Intelligence Engineer to design and own customer-facing analytics products and to drive analytics adoption across our customer teams. You will partner with operations leaders to translate business questions into measurable KPIs, build dashboards and metric layers in QuickSight, and increasingly leverage GenAI tools - Amazon Q, natural language query interfaces, and retrieval-augmented analytics - to multiply your impact across thousands of users.

Successful BIEs on this team are customer-obsessed, comfortable with operational ambiguity, and equally interested in building great dashboards and in teaching customers to build their own. They write strong SQL, communicate clearly with non-technical leaders, and treat GenAI as a tool they actively use rather than a topic to read about.

Key job responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain dashboards and analytical reporting solutions in QuickSight that support InfraOps decision-making
  • Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate operational questions into KPIs, data products, and Weekly and Monthly Business Review (WBR/MBR) narratives
  • Develop and present recommendations to senior leaders, including written narratives and verbal walk-throughs of insights
  • Design Amazon Q topics and supporting datasets that enable customer analysts to self-serve on questions previously requiring a CIAT engagement
  • Use CIAT"s GenAI tools - Amazon Q, natural language query interfaces, and retrieval-augmented analytics - as a primary part of the job
  • Contribute to CIAT"s analytics enablement programs that train Central Ops analysts on BI tools, query platforms, and GenAI capabilities
  • Write SQL against the team"s data warehouse and datalake to validate metrics, investigate data quality issues, and prototype analytics

A day in the life

Most days mix a few hours of focused build work - SQL development, dashboard iteration, metric validation - with stakeholder time. You might join a working session with a Logistics or Capacity Optimization team to walk through a metric definition, then sit with one of their analysts to review a query they wrote against CIAT"s datalake. After lunch you might pair with a Data Engineer on the data model behind a new WBR metric, draft the narrative for that week"s review, and review another BIE"s pull request before logging off. On a different day, the focus is an Amazon Q topic for a domain that has been generating repeat ad-hoc requests - designing the supporting dataset, configuring synonyms, and testing answers against real questions customers have asked.

You will be in front of customers regularly - not constantly, but enough that you should enjoy that side of the work. The team partners closely with Data Engineers and Systems Development Engineers, so you will rarely be the only person on a problem.

About the team

CIAT gathers, transforms, and analyzes data for inventory, change-of-state, system health, safety, security, workload, and resource efficiency across AWS"s global data center fleet. Our customers are the operations leaders who run rack install, decommission, repair, logistics, capacity optimization, and network operations. We are investing heavily in self-service and GenAI-powered analytics to expand the reach of the team beyond what any one BIE can deliver alone.

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles