Application Engineer, Devices and Services FinTech, DaS FinTech

Are you interested in working with the teams that developed the Kindle, FireTV and Alexa? The Amazon Devices and Service Finance organization is expanding our technology team, and we are looking for an Application Engineer with expertise in the areas of requirements gathering, technical design, development, deployment, and integration to solve budgeting, planning, performance management and reporting challenges. This is an exciting opportunity for a results driven leader to architect solutions, build features and tools that will have an immediate impact, as well as partnering with finance and business leaders in Devices and Services to drive results.
This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, systems understanding and problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in project management. Solutions must strike the right balance between precision and speed, providing ever more scalable and granular data models and reporting, without sacrificing accuracy or agility. You will need to think globally, as the products and features you create have worldwide impact.

Amazon needs individuals that bring the corporate finance experience AND the entrepreneurial aptitude to accelerate decision making and management of the business. Also needed is the intellectual capacity to produce innovative ideas/analysis and the willingness to do the heavy lifting to implement those decisions.



Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities:

Collaborate with business users, development teams, and operation engineering teams to tackle business requirements and deliver against high operational standards of system availability and reliability
Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns and suggesting fixes
Prepare runbooks, methods of procedures, tutorials, training videos on best practices for the team
Build monitoring dashboards and creation of critical alarms for the system
Build and enhance software to extend system, application, or tool functionality to improve business processes and meet end user needs while working within the overall system architecture
Diagnose and resolve operational issues, perform detailed root cause analysis, respond to suggestions for enhancements, and create detailed recommendations for solutions to problems that impact code owned by another group
Identify process improvement opportunities to drive innovation
Rotational on-call availability for critical systems support Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics or other technical discipline 5+ years of relevant IBM Cognos TM1/Planning Analytics experience including system configuration, model building and developing reports or dashboards with TM1 Relevant corporate finance experience exhibiting knowledge of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting functions and related processes