Application Engineer - Tm1/planning Analytics Job in Amazon

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How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with solving a huge customer need through disruptive and innovative technology?

The Team: WW Operations Finance is poised for a revolution. Historically, automation and technical infusion has taken a back-seat to important financial functions such as controllership, financial oversight, risk mitigation, and strong investment analysis. Finance is set to be the Chief Story Tellers, and along the way inject machine learning, BI, advanced analytics and technical tools built to suit finance and business needs. To get there, the Financial Systems and Analytics Team (FSAT) is seeking an Application Engineer to help lead a flagship multi-year project to inject automated planning and reporting, predictive forecasting, and help shape an end UI, built on the AWS Data Lake. We are the tech team that supports WW Amazon Operations one of the fastest growing, largest and most complex Supply Chains in the world. This position requires a high level of technical expertise within IBM Cognos TM1/Planning Analytics.

On the FSAT team, you will be surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success. To support this quickly growing business, you must be highly analytical and possess a strong passion for analytics and accountability, setting high standards, and razor-sharp accuracy. We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously you should too!


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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics or other technical discipline

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Demonstrated history of problem solving, financial acumen, and business collaborating skills
Ability to work independently and self-motivate in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a customer focused, professional demeanor
Strong scripting skills, e.g., Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.
Familiarity with other IBM software products, including Command Center, SPSS
Experience with design & delivery of formal training curriculum and programs
Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Visio, and SharePoint
Project management, scoping, reporting, and scheduling experience a plus
Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Finance, Statistics, or a related discipline