Data Scientist II, Amazon 1P Credito, Payments

Amazon Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Data Scientist II for the 1P Credito, Payments team to translate large datasets into actionable insights and data-driven strategies.

You will design, implement and validate ML models, work with engineering to deploy real-time solutions, and mentor junior scientists. The role emphasizes applying ML and GenAI techniques to optimize customer promotions and financial products, collaborating with cross-functional partners across regions, and navigating ambiguity to

Qualifications

• Experience as a Data Scientist
• Experience with data scripting languages (SQL, Python, R) or statistical software
• Experience with ML/statistical modeling and performance-tuning
• Master's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or equivalent, or ML/Data Scientist experience at a large tech company

Responsibilities

• Use ML and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems
• Analyze large historical data to automate and optimize processes
• Design and deploy end-to-end ML models in production
• Research novel ML/statistical approaches
• Collaborate with software engineering to enable real-time model implementations
• Work with business owners to optimize operations
• Mentor other scientists and engineers in ML techniques
• Innovate with GenAI for automated customer promotions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to scale models to millions of customers across countries

Skills

SQL/Python/R

ML/Statistics

Data storytelling

Mentoring

Education

MS in CS/Engineering/Math

PhD (preferred)

Tools

Hadoop/Spark/Hive

Job description

Data Scientist II, Amazon 1P Credito, Payments

Do you feel the challenge and the adrenaline kick when a huge data-set stares you in the face and you know that somewhere inside are hidden very important business insights that can fundamentally alter the way top business leaders think and act? Do you enjoy presenting strong data backed insights to business leaders; insights that can topple their long held beliefs and compel them to change their direction completely? If yes, then you are the one we are looking for.

We are looking to invite passionate leaders, with expertise in generate power business insights from very large datasets, on a journey where the primary aim would be to enable needle moving business impacts through statistical analysis. We are looking for leaders who can envision the design and development of analytical infrastructure which can support strategic and tactical decision-making. Those who join this high visibility team would have to navigate through significant ambiguity in defining business problems and converting them to analytical problems.

This role requires additional exposure and experience to Machine Learning.

Key job responsibilities

• Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems
• Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes
• Design, development, evaluate and deploy innovative and highly scalable models for predictive learning
• Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches
• Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations
• Work closely with business owners and operations staff to optimize various business operations
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation
• Mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques
• Innovate with the latest GenAI technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient customer promotions
• Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to delight Amazon customers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive ML/statistical models that can scale to millions of customers to multiple countries

About the team

Brazil Payments is part of the International Emerging Stores Payments team and focuses on supporting the launch of new payment and financial products to our customers in Brazil.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience working as a Data Scientist
• Experience with data scripting languages (e.g. SQL, Python, R etc.) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, or Matlab)
• Experience with machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance
• Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI/ML technologies
• PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields
• Experience with clustered data processing (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Map-reduce, and Hive)
• Experience in defining and creating benchmarks for assessing GenAI model performance
• Experience working on multi-team, cross-disciplinary projects
• Experience applying quantitative analysis to solve business problems and making data-driven business decisions

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