Amazon Jobs – Data Engineer

About the job

Description

Are you ready to relaunch your Data Engineer career?

Have you been out of the workforce for an extended time? Or have you been working in a different field and want to return to a career in Data Engineering?

Restart your career in a fully paid Returnship Programme at Amazon with the potential to progress to a permanent full-time position

About The Returnship Programme

• This 16-week paid employment opportunity is available to you if you are looking to resume your professional career after experiencing a period of under-employment and/or unemployment
• This program offers you a chance to revamp your skills, update your resume with new experience, and make connections with other professionals who are returning to their careers.

Benefits Included In The Program

• Paid, 16 week, Fixed Term Contract
• Opportunity to Work from home for the duration of the Returnship
• Flexibility – Your manager will work with you to establish the best and most productive use of your time.
• Work on real-life projects
• Extensive support and mentorship to get you back up to speed

Upon successful completion of the Programme, there is the potential of an offer for full-time employment which will be based in the Amazon office in London.

Who can apply?

• For this opportunity, the Amazon Returnship Programme welcomes Returners with previous experience in Data Engineering to apply.
• If you have a gap in your employment, for whatever reason, or if you are currently under-employed or employed in a different field, and want to return to Data Engineering, then we would like to hear from you.
• To apply you must be living in, and have the right to work full time in, the UK and be available to start working full-time in the Returnship Programme if your application is successful.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field
• Must be unemployed for 1+ years
• Is not currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program
• 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role
• Experience with data modeling, data warehousing, and building ETL pipelines
• Experience in SQL

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters in computer science, mathematics, statistics, economics, or other quantitative fields.
• Experience working with AWS big data technologies (Redshift, S3, EMR)
• Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development, and data warehousing
• Proven success in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe data modeling decisions and data engineering strategy
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers for best practices on data engineering
• Familiarity with statistical models and data mining algorithms

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

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Company – Amazon UK Services Ltd.

Job ID: A1639225