Job Description

DESCRIPTIONAmazon is a fast paced, dynamic, high-tech company spread across the Globe. Amazon\'s finance team is searching for a bar-raising IT Application Engineer who consistently exceeds expectations, who thrive in a challenging workplace, and who can actively contribute to our talented team. The Agile Automation team is part of a global accounting organization that supports Amazon\'s financial reporting, internal control, inter-company, and transfer pricing activities and also supports new business launches globally in the consumer products, digital initiatives, merchant, operations, logistics, payments, and cloud computing lines of business. The Agile Automation team is responsible to reduce the amount of time accountants spend performing repetitive manual data manipulation, report creation, journal preparation, etc. Agile Automation team is launched a Regional Alteryx Champions (RAC) program that will greatly benefit the multiple accounting teams across the globe to automate repetitive manual activities such as performing aggregations, reconciliation, calculations, lookups, and pivot tables using excel formulas or macros that involves large data sets as part of their business operational process
The IT Application Engineer is an individual contributor who is responsible to work on developing the automation of accounting business processes using the Alteryx ETL tool. The IT Application Engineer owns the technical design documentation, data security, building automation, and operational support for the entire automation portfolio. The individual must work collaboratively with A3P3 Program leadership, process optimization specialists, accounting process owners, subject matter experts, and target system owners to meet our highest standards for quality and timely delivery of automation build and support services. The role focuses on long-term business technology objectives and targeted business outcomes by clarifying automation technology capabilities, assessing and mitigating security risks, ensuring platform scale, availability, and stability, involved in automation development cycles, and providing best-in-class support services.
Successful candidates will have the equivalent of 2+ years of professional experience implementing and supporting Alteryx solutions. This person has 2-3 years of experience in Data Analytics, ETL Development, Reporting, Data Integration, Process Automation and Operations Delivery.Key job responsibilities
Troubleshoot and fix Alteryx workflow issues developed by RACs

• Provide Alteryx trainings and attend office hours to support RACs
• Alteryx Server Installation in EC2 machines across all the Environments.
• Redshift cluster creation with IGW and handled Redshift Database schema design for Alteryx.
• On-board and Integrate Redshift cluster with Datanet jobs
• Promote developed workflows to Alteryx Server and schedule Alteryx workflows in EC2 machines based on the requirement.
• Handle Alteryx user permissions in the server.
• AWS Secrets Manager Integration with Alteryx.
• Extracted data to Alteryx from different sources like Database (Redshift, OFA), Datanet, SharePoint, Shared folder and S3.
• Proactively keeping the Alteryx server running with minimal service failure through the diagnosis of logs, database, and disk space utilization from interactive tools.
• Schedule Alteryx workflows on the server and monitor Alteryx server performance
• Build data analytical automation using Alteryx service, workflow execution and Alteryx connect platform across Dev/UAT/ Prod environments
• Proficient in building Alteryx Workflows in Alteryx designer and integrating to Alteryx Server
• Migrate the Alteryx workflows from Dev to test, UAT and prod servers using CLI and Alteryx workflow migration methodology

About the team
The Agile Automation team is part of global accounting organization that supports Amazon\'s financial reporting, inter-company, and transfer pricing activities . The Agile Automation team is responsible to reduce the amount of time accountants spend performing repetitive manual data manipulation, report creation, journal preparation, etc. Agile Automation team is launched an automation program for Alteryx a third-party application that will greatly benefit the multiple accounting teams across the globe to automate the repetitive manual activities such as performing aggregations, reconciliation, calculations, lookups, and pivot tables using the excel formulas or macros.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Hyderabad, TS, INDBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\xc2\xb7Degree in computer science, finance, accounting or related field \xc2\xb72-3 years of IT experience in Alteryx development, design, operations and support teams in finance/accounting fields \xc2\xb7Experience working in a fast paced environment similar to a high tech start-up with responsibility for leading direct reports and influencing teams in a matrixed environment \xc2\xb7Provide technical contribution during solution, design, and architectural discussions; find and research ways to utilize the Alteryx tool to gain efficiency, productivity and scale. \xc2\xb7 Partner with other developers, architects and QA engineers to design and build enterprise-ready Alteryx solutions. \xc2\xb7 Maintains highest standards for automation project delivery, including comprehensive work intake management, portfolio prioritization, resource planning and customer/ stakeholder alignment \xc2\xb7Maintains knowledge base of current best practices for accounting processes, accounting applications and the financial reporting architecture and design \xc2\xb7Synthesize business requirements with technology capabilities \xc2\xb7 Maintains highest levels of customer focus and results delivery \xc2\xb7 Dives deep, stay connected to details and permanently resolves issues \xc2\xb7 Works to improve interpersonal, written and oral communication skills \xc2\xb7 Experience in AWS Services like EC2, S3 and Lambda Functions \xe2\x80\xa2Alteryx Core Certification is an added qualification.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor\'s of Engineering with technology/finance/accounting background preferred \xe2\x80\xa2 Experience in building the Data Analytical platforms by using Alteryx \xe2\x80\xa2 Experience with AWS Technologies and Services \xe2\x80\xa2 ERP General Ledger and Reporting experience with one or more Fortune 500 companies \xe2\x80\xa2 Basic working knowledge in accounting/finance/tax

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