Senior Data Scientist, AWS Analytics Engineering

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for AWS Analytics Engineering in Seattle to build ML-driven product analytics for EC2, GenAI & Agents, and S3. You will translate complex business problems into rigorous scientific solutions, partner with product managers and senior stakeholders, and inject analytical rigor across the organization.

You will mentor junior scientists, own end-to-end analyses, and help scale analytics with strong ownership and cross-functional collaboration within AWS and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data querying languages and data scientist experience.
• Experience with statistical models and inference methods.
• Ability to translate business problems into scientific solutions.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for ML-driven product analytics across AWS services.
• Deliver scalable ML-driven product analytics and drive leadership conversations.
• Define and deliver knowledge organization best practices for agentic analytics.
• Build agentic knowledge coverage to derive accurate insights for senior leaders.
• Drive cross-service insights and influence product and process changes.
• Collaborate with internal science organizations to expand analytics scope.

Skills

SQL

Python

Statistical modeling

Tools

SAS

Matlab

Job description

Senior Data Scientist, AWS Analytics Engineering

Do you want to build science solutions that shape how millions of customers experience AWS products? Do you want to influence AWS investment in Cloud and AI technology, and see your recommendations inform AWS leadership decisions and drive the growth of the AWS business? Do you want to push the boundaries of data science (e.g., statistical modeling, causal inference, econometrics, product growth analytics, and forecasting models) and help democratize how AWS senior leaders access analytics insights using an agentic analytics system?

The AWS Analytics Engineering team is at the forefront of leveraging AI/ML technology and infrastructure to redefine how AWS product leaders and teams interact with and derive insights from their product and customer data. Our vision is to use data science methods to enable AWS product teams and business leaders to drive product and revenue growth and create personalized, optimized, and simplified product experiences to delight our customers.

We are looking for a customer-focused Senior Data Scientist to develop and deliver science solutions for AWS services. In this role, you will build ML-driven product analytics for AWS Compute (EC2), GenAI & Agents, Database & Analytics, and Storage (S3). You will partner with product managers, business leaders, and senior stakeholders to translate complex business problems into scientific solutions that influence AWS's top line and bottom line. You will analyze product growth insights, understand product growth drivers, and identify business risks that need to be surfaced to leadership.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will analyze business trends and customer insights hands-on, own analyses end to end from problem definition through recommendation, and help raise the bar for scientific rigor on the team. You will mentor junior data scientists through code and methodology reviews and share best practices across the team. You will operate effectively in ambiguous environments, use sound business judgment, show high ownership and a deep understanding of the AWS business, and apply new data science methods at AWS scale.

Key job responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for ML-driven product analytics across AWS Compute (EC2), GenAI & Agents, Database & Analytics, and Storage (S3)
• Deliver at scale ML-Driven, proactive product analytics for ALL AWS services - initiating and driving GM/VP level conversations
• Define, own and deliver Knowledge organization best practices for agentic data analytics across AWS Services
• Build agentic knowledge coverage mechanisms to ensure any service GM/VP/Finance/PM leaders in AWS are able to derive accurate and well covered agentic insights
• Drive the delivery of cross-service AWS insights, and influence GMs and VPs on product and process changes based on insights delivered.
• Partner with other science organizations like AWS Central Econ and science (ACES) and IDEAS Science & Economics to drive AWS wide agentic analytics boundaries across organizations and governance mechanisms
• Work across the AAE Science, Engineering, Core data engineering and service analytics organization to scale science and analytics to all AWS services

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
• 4+ years of data scientist experience
• Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of data visualization using AWS QuickSight, Tableau, R Shiny, etc. experience
• Experience managing data pipelines
• Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Veterans, military spouses, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.