Amazon. com Services LLC

Technology

Sr.DataEngineer,AmazonPeopleInsightseXperience(APIX)

$155–209k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“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.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

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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