IT Application Engineer

We are seeking an experienced IT Application Engineer to join our client's team in Seattle, Washington. The ideal candidate will have outstanding business acumen, analytical abilities, and strong technical skills. They will design, implement, and support a platform providing secured access to large datasets and model data and metadata to support ad-hoc and pre-built reporting.

Requirements

• Design, implement, and support a platform providing secured access to large datasets.
• Model data and metadata to support ad-hoc and pre-built reporting.
• Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions.
• Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation.
• Tune application and query performance using Unix profiling tools and SQL.
• Analyze and solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• Respond to high priority requests from senior business leaders.
• Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and know when, how, and which to use and which not to use.
• Continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service support for secondary datasets.