Business Analyst – Buyer Abuse Data Science

About the role

Amazon's Buyer Risk Prevention team seeks a Business Analyst to join the Operations Analytics group. The role focuses on using data mining, modeling, and visualization to uncover risk patterns, improve operational efficiency, and support decision‑making for the Buyer Abuse program.

Key responsibilities

• Apply analytics and data‑mining techniques to solve complex problems and guide business decisions.
• Design experiments, test hypotheses, and build actionable models to optimize BRP operations.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations (QuickSight, Tableau) to highlight trends, anomalies, and key metrics.
• Monitor ETL pipelines, resolve data dependencies, and back‑fill data when logic changes.
• Conduct ad‑hoc investigations of fraud/abuse signals and multi‑account abuse patterns.
• Prepare weekly and quarterly business reports, forecasts, and goal‑tracking inputs.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience as a business analyst, data analyst, or similar role.
• Proficiency in Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, Power Pivot) and SQL.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Required skills

• Excel (VBA, pivot tables, Power Pivot)
• SQL
• Tableau or similar data‑visualization tools
• Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS
• Amazon QuickSight and Redshift