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Description

We're seeking an experienced Data Engineering Manager to build data & analytics platform for Risk and Compliance Solutions (RCS) products. RCS serves as a crucial safeguard for Amazon's buyers, brands, and selling partners while ensuring business teams meet their regulatory obligations. Operating under the Three Lines of Defense (3LoD) model, RCS functions as the second line of defense, providing specialized oversight, monitoring, and expertise while setting policies and procedures that guide Amazon's compliance framework. RCS's mission is to leverage specialist industry insights and Amazon's unique way to scale through technology, delighting customers through tailored compliance solutions.
RCS's work spans multiple critical areas, including enabling Amazon's financial services expansion through streamlined license acquisition, managing existing business risks, delivering comprehensive governance, risk, and assurance services across Amazon, developing innovative solutions like Compliance as a Service (CaaS) and transforming compliance operations into a proactive, intelligence-led framework.
This role is critical for RCS's mission to scale compliance operations through technology, reduce manual processes, and enable Amazon's global expansion while maintaining regulatory compliance. The role sits in the sweet spot between technology and business worlds and provides opportunities for learning, growth, high business impact, and working with seasoned global business leaders.
The ideal candidate will be an analytical, results-oriented, self-motivated, and customer-focused engineering leader who will play a key role in continuous improvement for the critical systems that enable our entire RCS business.
An ideal candidate will be someone with sound technical background in data domain (storage, processing, and analytics), has solid business acumen, and has strong automation solution-oriented thought process. Will be a self-starter who can start with a business problem and work backwards to conceive and formulate best possible solution. Is a great communicator and at ease on partnering with business owners and all other stakeholders. Can explore newer technology options as needed, and has a high sense of ownership over every deliverable by the team. Is constantly obsessed with customer delight and business impacting end result(s) and ‘gets it done’ in business time.

Key job responsibilities
• Architect and implement a scalable, cost-optimized S3-based Data Lake for RCS that unifies structured and unstructured data from disparate sources.
• Architect and implement a scalable, cost-performance-optimized OLAP-based analytics layer
• Establish metadata management with automated data classification and lineage tracking.
• Architect a centralized metrics repository that becomes the source of truth for all metrics, reports, and dashboards.
• Implement robust data quality frameworks with staging-first policies and automated validation pipelines.
• Design extensible metrics schemas that support complex analytical queries while optimizing for AI retrieval patterns.
• Establish automated compliance validation frameworks ensuring data handling meets Amazon's security standards.
• Architect and implement scalable, reliable data pipelines and infrastructure, supporting analytics at scale
• Design and enforce data modeling standards, lineage, and governance frameworks while ensuring secure, compliant solutions
• Lead technical design/code reviews, evaluate emerging technologies, and drive engineering best practices across development lifecycle
• Mentor engineers, foster technical excellence, and empower team self-service capabilities for handling complex data tasks independently
• Collaborate with a cross functional global team of product managers, engineers, and stakeholders.
• Drive OP1, OP2, WTR, Sprints, MTR, Roadmap prioritizations, and QTR for the RCS data and analytics Team.

A day in the life
Data Engineering Manager in this role is responsible for architecting, and delivering analytics solutions that will highly impact risk and compliance services team worldwide to provide excellent service and support to Amazon Businesses. This Data Engineering Manager will meet regularly with representatives from product and engineering teams to gather data and analytics requirements, transform complex requirements into seamless analytics presentations, collaborate with global stakeholders, and represent the data and analytics team in all appropriate forums.