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ITA is an industry-leading people science and technology organization made up of scientists, engineers, analysts, product professionals and more, all with the shared goal of connecting the right people to the right jobs in a way that is fair and precise. Last year we delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments and helped Amazon deliver billions of packages around the world by making it possible to hire hundreds of thousands of workers in the right quantity, at the right location, and at exactly the right time. You’ll work on state-of-the-art research, advanced software tools, new AI systems, and machine learning algorithms, leveraging Amazon's in-house tech stack to bring innovative solutions to life. Join ITA in using technologies to transform the hiring landscape and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Together, we can solve the world's toughest hiring problems.\nThe Principal Data Engineer will lead high scope technical projects within ITA and in partnership with multiple technical stakeholders across Amazon Talent Acquisition and People Experience & Technology organizations. Within ITA, the Principal Data Engineer will lead technical strategy to ensure high quality data provision end to end across eight major data services, technical design and hands on development of high impact and complex products and mentoring data engineers in best practice across the organization. Outside ITA, the Principal Data Engineer will partner with technical organizations (both upstream and downstream) to develop scalable interoperability solutions for Amazon Talent Acquisition. \nKey job responsibilities\nLead the development of the technical strategy for the ITA organization with a specific focus on how to bring both transactional and analytical data together.\nAdvise on overall data strategy for PxT Consumer.\nLead designing new services and complex features within existing services.\nLead capability reviews of ITA data infrastructure identifying improvements in existing services and/or identifying critical gaps in the data ecosystem.\nDesign and implement the interfaces with partner organizations including, but not limited to:\nHands on development on organization level critical projects.\nDevelop, coach and mentor engineers across ITA to up-skill the organization.\nLead technical design review meetings for data services across People Experience Technology Consumer.\nBasic qualifications\nBachelors Degree in a technical field or equivalent\nDesign, implementation, or consulting experience with distributed applications or related field.\nData engineering experience or related field\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience working with Data/Research Scientists who require models to be put into production for a variety of models (e.g. predictions, optimization and natural language processing.\nExperience with Human Resources Privacy regulations and strategies to manage personally identifiable data world-wide whilst using state of the art solutions to enforce compliance with regulations.\nExperience with Transaction and Real Time Data Services \nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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