Amazon

Business Analyst- Amazon India

Posted On

July 14, 2025

Location

Virtual, Virtual

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Data Science

Apply By

Aug. 12, 2025

Job Description

Role Description:
• Business Analyst position is focused on developing analytical solutions
• Responsible for managing large datasets and providing business insights
• Transforms data into actionable business information
• Designs and implements analytics solutions
• Works with stakeholders worldwide to drive business impact
Skills of a successful Business Analyst:
• Strong SQL and data analytics capabilities
• Excellence in data visualization and dashboard creation
• Advanced Excel skills (VBA, pivot tables, power pivots)
• Strong stakeholder management abilities
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Communication and presentation skills
• Ability to handle ambiguity
Competencies:
Must Haves:
• Analytical experience
• Proficiency in SQL
• Strong data visualization skills
• Stakeholder management experience
• Excel expertise
Good to Have:
• Experience with large-scale data sets
• Knowledge of metadata modeling
• Pipeline monitoring experience
• Business domain knowledge
• Experience with multiple analytics tools
Why is this role difficult to hire:
• Rare combination of technical and business skills required
• Need for both analytical and communication capabilities
• High demand for experienced analysts in the market
• Complex technical requirements (SQL, data visualization, Excel)
• Competition from other tech companies (like Flipkart, Uber, Ola)
Why are Business Analysts critical at Amazon:
• Drive data-driven decision making
• Provide crucial insights into operations health
• Transform complex data into actionable business information
• Enable stakeholders worldwide to access and understand data
• Support business growth through analytical solutions
• Help identify trends, patterns, and improvement opportunities
A day in the life:
• Creating and managing datasets
• Building and maintaining dashboards
• Conducting deep dive analyses
• Meeting with stakeholders to gather requirements
• Monitoring data pipelines
• Optimizing query performance
• Creating visualizations and reports
• Presenting insights to business leaders
• Making data-driven recommendations
• Collaborating with technical teams
• Working on metadata modeling
• Managing competing priorities in an agile environment

A day in the life
Candidate is expected to have a good SQL and business acumen. Every day goes by requirement gathering , understanding the business problem, gaining vast knowledge on the amazon databases and interfaces, suggesting optimal solution to problem statement, qualify and quantifying the problem statement using insightful data points. - Experience creating complex SQL queries joining multiple datasets, ETL DW concepts
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Knowledge of data visualization tools such as Quick Sight, Tableau, Power BI or other BI packages
- 2+ years of Excel or Tableau (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables) experience
- Experience with SQL or ETL
- 2+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 2+ years in End-End handling of business analysis from requirement gathering to insightful metrics presentation

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