Senior Data Engineer

Amazon.ae

India

Ref: RP971-777

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

DESCRIPTION
Souq.com is the largest e-commerce site in the Arab world. Every month, Souq.com attracts more than 41 million visits to its catalogue of more than 8.5 million unique products in 35 different categories, including consumer electronics, household goods, fashion, watches, perfumes, toys, and baby products.

Established in 2005, Souq.com today operates both as an award-winning retail business and an online marketplace that allows SMEs, merchants, brands and distributors to distribute their products online.

With more than 4,000 employees, We have offices and local operations in UAE, Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and leading Product and Engineering centers in Jordan and India, offering a unique opportunity to join the leading player in an ever growing and exciting industry.

Last year May 2017, Souq.com had been acquired by Amazon, and we are in process of launching 3 marketplaces for UAE, KSA and EGY regions by Q3 of next year 2019 in phases. This is one of a unique acquisition where Amazon will be migrating existing Souq’s data to Amazon systems and won’t start from scratch. From Data Engineering perspective , we will be moving Souq’s existing data layer to Amazon stack in order to support all analytical reporting built on using the two systems. We will be setting up the integration cluster along with Data Marts to achieve this, to support all business units across organization. Interested candidates to take ownership of this project and want to be part of this exciting journey of moving Souq stack to Amazon stack are welcome.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• B.Tech in CS or Information technology
• Databases, Data Modeling & Data designs
• SQL expert

Requirements

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
•2+ years of experience in Data Engineering team within Amazon
• Worked on building up Data Marts via DATANET & on Redshift/ EMR
• Knowledge on Key BOOKER tables
• Handled business requests end to end right from requirements gathering, design, implementation, writing test cases and then to deployment
• Team player and mentor to the junior team members
• Troubleshooting skills to debug the critical issues
• Optimization and Maintenance experience of database servers/clusters.

About the Company

Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.

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