Business Analyst, AWS ECT

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Job description

DESCRIPTION

Come contribute to the success of a growing program team within AWS Talent Acquisition focused on building the next generation of future leaders for our Cloud Business. The AWS Early Career Talent (ECT) team supports our rapidly growing business by investing in attracting, engaging, and supporting our student hiring programs. You'll work with a diverse set of leaders, customers, and partners to make a big impact on our global program.

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to work with our leadership team. The ideal candidate will have a natural curiosity about solving problems, identifying the right metrics to inspect the business, and to help leaders make great data driven decisions. You will work with a highly collaborative team, and have direct influence over analytical roadmaps, establishment of key performance metrics, dashboards and report development. You'll be responsible for working with senior leadership within HR, Talent Acquisition, and at times, directly with business leadership to provide data and insights into the Early Career Talent Program. You'll be able to bring your unique talents, skills, and expertise to shape the direction of our program.

Core responsibilities include:

• Partner with Business Operations and the ECT leadership team to consult, define, develop, build and implement the right set of performance metrics, reports, and dashboards to effectively manage the business.
• Support data needs related to business cadence such as weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews.
• Enable effective decision making by retrieving and aggregating data from multiple sources and compiling it into a digestible and actionable format.
• Conduct ad hoc analysis projects - at times across multiple systems answering complex business questions and providing actionable insights to the leadership team to inform decisions and strategy.
• Conduct trend analysis to identify opportunities, highlight strengths, and provide recommended corrective actions
• Partnering with the recruiting team and ECT leadership, identify and clarify ongoing needs and influence the analytics roadmap to deliver.
• Contribute to strategic planning processes and recommend process improvement initiatives, influencing the direction of the organization..

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field
• 3+ years of professional experience in a business analyst/data analyst/statistical analyst role
• Experience writing and optimizing SQL to handle extremely large datasets
• Understanding of data warehousing and data modeling
• 3+ years direct experience with one or more major data visualization tools including Tableau/QuickSight/Power BI etc.
• Experience building business forecasting models
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams. Ability to work collaboratively with non-technical customers and team members and translate business questions into analytical requirements with ease.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced technical or business degree (MS or MBA)
• Experience leading large-scale analytics projects with BI solutions development using AWS technologies -Redshift, Athena, S3, EC2, Quicksight, etc
• Experience in scripting languages for parsing and data analysis
• Proven problem solving skills, project management skills, attention to detail, ability to influence others and exceptional organizational skills
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and competing objectives in a fast paced environment
• Be self-driven, and show ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete data
• Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role