Data Engineer - AI-Ready Data Foundation, Japan Store Tech
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Amazon
📍 Tokyo, Japan, Japan
Job Description
Description
AI is only as smart as the business meaning behind the data it reasons over. Today, that meaning lives in spreadsheets, tribal knowledge, and the heads of a handful of experts, which is exactly why AI agents get the right numbers but the wrong answers. We're looking for a Data Engineer to close that gap: someone who wants to build the semantic foundation that makes our business data truly AI-ready.
This is not a traditional data pipeline role, because AI needs explicit, governed business meaning, not institutional memory. You will own that meaning layer: defining the entities, relationships, canonical metrics, and business rules that turn raw data into something both humans and AI agents can reason over with confidence.
You'll combine hands-on technical range (pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, modern data platforms, and LLM/agent tooling) with sharp business translation skills, turning implicit tribal knowledge into explicit, machine-readable de...
AI is only as smart as the business meaning behind the data it reasons over. Today, that meaning lives in spreadsheets, tribal knowledge, and the heads of a handful of experts, which is exactly why AI agents get the right numbers but the wrong answers. We're looking for a Data Engineer to close that gap: someone who wants to build the semantic foundation that makes our business data truly AI-ready.
This is not a traditional data pipeline role, because AI needs explicit, governed business meaning, not institutional memory. You will own that meaning layer: defining the entities, relationships, canonical metrics, and business rules that turn raw data into something both humans and AI agents can reason over with confidence.
You'll combine hands-on technical range (pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, modern data platforms, and LLM/agent tooling) with sharp business translation skills, turning implicit tribal knowledge into explicit, machine-readable de...