Amazon. com Services LLC
Technology
Sr.DataEngineer,AmazonPeopleInsightseXperience(APIX)
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“Sr. Data Engineer, Amazon PeopleInsights eXperience (APIX) at Amazon. com Services LLC. Skills: Data engineering, Data architecture, Distributed systems, AWS data services. Own team data architecture. Drive technical excellence”
What You'll Achieve.
Achieve 100% Golden Dataset discoverability; Reduce dataset onboarding time under 7 days; Serve 16,000+ HR professionals; Support hundreds of teams; Maintain highest privacy standards; Maintain highest security standards; Reduce manual data preparation 60-80%; Achieve >90% query accuracy; Achieve <7 day metric creation timelines; Enable policy-driven data classification; Enable automated depersonalization; Enable cell-level access control; Address 95+ identified feature gaps; Position PXT as AWS QuickSight's #1 customer
Industry & Context.
Solve ambiguous problems; Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years data engineering experience, Experience with data modeling, Experience building ETL pipelines, Experience with SQL, Experience in scripting or programming language, Experience mentoring team members
Nice to Have
Experience with big data technologies, Experience operating large data warehouses
What You'll Do.
Own team data architecture
Drive technical excellence
Anticipate data access patterns
Design large-scale data solutions
Deliver secure data solutions
Deliver maintainable data solutions
Deliver scalable data solutions
Deliver extensible data solutions
Lead architectural improvements
Simplify complex data systems
Address architecture deficiencies
Make architectural trade-offs
Balance technology needs
Balance business requirements
Solve ambiguous problems
Lead technical strategy
Work with limited guidance
Define business problems
Define technical strategies
Lead identification of challenges
Lead resolution of challenges
Influence team strategy
Bring perspective to choices
Leverage existing solutions
Build new capabilities
Design data pipelines
Implement data pipelines
Implement ETL processes
Design data abstraction layers
Implement data abstraction layers
Optimize data quality
Optimize data availability
Deliver data infrastructure
Support AI-powered insights
Lead implementation of governance
Integrate with primitives
Enable policy-driven classification
Enable automated depersonalization
Enable cell-level access control
Collaborate with AWS teams
Ensure data solution compliance
Comply with privacy standards
Comply with GDPR/DSAR
Comply with Red certification
Mentor data engineers
Improve technical knowledge
Provide technical assessments
Participate in design reviews
Demonstrate technical influence
Increase productivity
Master AWS data toolkit
Integrate emerging technologies
Pioneer privacy-first patterns
Pioneer AI-ready infrastructure
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Data engineering teams; AWS BDT teams; Security teams; FPDS teams
Communication Scope
Technical presentations; Technical documentation
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
Are you passionate about building scalable data infrastructure that powers critical business decisions? Do you thrive on solving complex data architecture challenges while mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence? If so, join the Amazon People Insights & Experience (APIX) team as a Senior Data Engineer! We're transforming Amazon's fragmented people-data ecosystem into a centralized, AI-ready platform through the PXT Data Strategy—a multi-year program consolidating 20 data lakes with 13,000+ data sources into a unified Central Lakehouse serving 440+ data teams. As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll be instrumental in building the data infrastructure that enables self-service analytics, AI-powered insights, and data governance at massive scale. This is a hands-on technical leadership position where you will own team-level data architecture for flagship initiatives including the Central Lakehouse (achieving 100% Golden Dataset discoverability), Amazon Cortex (an intelligent data abstraction platform), and Clarity Metrics Marketplace (CMM)—reducing dataset onboarding time from 5-6 weeks to under 7 days. You'll architect solutions that serve 16,000+ HR professionals, operations leaders, and people managers across Amazon, directly impacting how the company makes data-driven workforce decisions. We're looking for a top data engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems, data lake architectures, and a proven track record of delivering large-scale data solutions. You should excel at technical leadership, strategic thinking, and have genuine passion for building data infrastructure that scales to support hundreds of teams building metrics in parallel while maintaining Amazon's highest privacy and security standards. Key job responsibilities Own Team Data Architecture & Drive Technical Excellence - Take ownership of team data architecture with system-wide perspective, anticipating data access patterns and proactively removing bottlenecks across the Central Lakeho
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