Data Engineer II, ITA - Workforce Intelligence

Amazon's Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA) team is seeking a Data Engineer II to join their Workforce Intelligence initiative. This role offers an opportunity to revolutionize Amazon's hiring process through data-driven solutions. As part of ITA, a leading people science and technology organization, you'll work on developing sophisticated data infrastructure that powers Amazon's talent acquisition operations.

The position involves working with state-of-the-art research, advanced software tools, and machine learning algorithms to solve complex hiring challenges. You'll be responsible for building and maintaining scalable data pipelines, ensuring data security, and working with various stakeholders to deliver data solutions that enable fair and efficient hiring decisions.

The ideal candidate should be an expert in data lake fundamentals, familiar with multiple data processing stacks like Spark, and have a deep understanding of enterprise-level data lake/mesh solutions using AWS stack. You'll be working in a fast-paced environment, handling large transactional volumes and complex business contexts.

This role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact on Amazon's hiring processes, which directly affects millions of candidates and helps build the workforce behind innovations like AWS, Prime, and Alexa. You'll be part of a team that delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments last year, transforming hiring from a "game of chance" to a merit-based approach.

The position offers the opportunity to work with Amazon's in-house tech stack built on AWS, providing the autonomy and flexibility to bring innovative solutions to life. You'll be joining a team that's focused on building scalable, long-term solutions while maintaining high standards of data privacy and integrity.