Data Scientist II - AMZ9082460

Data Scientist Ii

Employer: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Offered Position: Data Scientist Ii

Job Location: Seattle, Washington

Position Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable and reliable approaches to support or automate decision making throughout the business.
• Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the solution approach is unclear.
• Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries.
• Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing Oracle, RedShift, and Spark storage systems.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts.
• Analyze data for trends and input validity by inspecting univariate distributions, exploring bivariate relationships, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies.
• Build models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and neural networks.
• Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators.
• Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production.

Position Requirements:

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and one year of experience.
• Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s): (1) building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources; (2) writing SQL scripts for analysis and data migration; and (3) applying specialized modeling software including R, Python, or MATLAB.

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $136,000/year to $184,000/year.

Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.