Senior Manager of Data Engineering & Business Intelligence, Alexa Audio

Alexa Audio manages the end-to-end customer listening experience for Alexa+ customers worldwide — across all endpoints, in all geos, and

for Alexa's global Audio providers including Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, and more. Our team ensures that hundreds of

millions of customers can discover, play, and enjoy audio content seamlessly through Alexa.

Our team of Product Managers, Technical Program Managers, Data Engineers, and Business Intelligence Engineers work together to deliver

smarter, more personalized, and more proactive audio experiences. The data that powers our decisions — from listening hours and content

performance to quality metrics, discovery, and partner analytics — must be available, efficient, and trusted.

As a Sr. Manager of Data Engineering and Business Intelligence, you will lead a team of 6 Data Engineers and BIEs responsible for the data

infrastructure, pipelines, and reporting that underpin Alexa Audio's most critical business metrics. You will increase data availability

and efficiency, improve data confidence and reliability, and scale existing systems or build net-new infrastructure to support the needs of

a rapidly evolving business. You will own end-to-end analytical solutions that are highly available, scalable, stable, secure, and cost-

effective. You are passionate about working with large-scale datasets and have experience with the organization and curation of data for

analytics. You have a strategic, long-term view on architecting advanced data ecosystems and the ability to integrate data systems with AWS

tools and services to support a variety of customer use cases.

In this role, you have the opportunity to:

• Design and scale the data infrastructure that powers Alexa Audio's key business metrics across all content types (music, radio, podcasts,

audiobooks, generative audio), endpoints, geos, and providers

• Implement data ingestion routines — both real-time and batch — using best practices in data modeling and ETL/ELT processes, leveraging

AWS technologies and big data tools

• Gather business and functional requirements from product, leadership, and partner teams and translate them into robust, scalable,

operable solutions with flexible and adaptable data architecture

• Continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service modeling and production support for

stakeholders

Key job responsibilities

• Delivery of robust, scalable data solutions supporting Alexa Audio's data infrastructure across all content verticals, endpoints, and geos
• Enhancement of reporting and analytics capabilities serving Alexa Audio Product Directors, Technical Directors, Product Management, Partner Management, and Central BI/Finance teams
• Leadership in data governance, quality standards, and SLA enforcement across the Audio data ecosystem
• Own technical delivery and team leadership for development and maintenance of scalable ETL/big data pipelines, semantic layers, and dashboard data models
• Own and evolve WBR/MBR reporting, self-service analytics, and ad hoc deep-dive capabilities
• Collaborate with Product Management, BI teams, and stakeholders to prioritize work aligned with Alexa Audio business goals
• Establish best practices for data engineering, including code reviews, testing, monitoring, and documentation
• Drive team growth through mentoring, coaching, and career development
• Reduce time-to-insight for product, leadership, and partner teams by increasing data availability and efficiency
• Ensure stakeholders trust the numbers they use to make decisions by improving data confidence and reliability

About the team

Alexa Audio manages the end-to-end customer listening experience for Alexa+ customers worldwide — across all endpoints, in all geos, and

for Alexa's global Audio providers including Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, and more. Our team of Product Managers, Technical

Program Managers, Data Engineers, and Business Intelligence Engineers work together to deliver the data infrastructure, insights, and

reporting that power how Alexa Audio understands its business, measures its customer experience, and makes decisions. We are at an

inflection point: with the launch of Alexa+, we are delivering smarter, more personalized, and more proactive audio experiences to

customers worldwide, and the decisions we make depend on data we can trust, access quickly, and act on confidently.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering experience
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
• Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS
• 5+ years of delivering results managing a business intelligence or analytics team, including employee development and performance management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions
• Experience operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets, or experience with software development lifecycle
• Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, or experience in any Bigdata architecture and experience in managing and troublshooting network
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs

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USA, WA, Seattle - 202,300.00 - 273,700.00 USD annually