Data Scientist II, SAnDS, SAnDS

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Do you have proven analytical capabilities to identify business opportunities, develop predictive models and optimization algorithms to help us build state of the art Support organization?

At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. We set big goals and are looking for people who can help us reach and exceed them. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Amazon Web Services, Inc. provides services for broad range of applications including compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), security, and application development, deployment, and management.

Global AWS central support team is looking for a passionate Data Scientist to model contact forecasting, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of statistics, machine learning, and deep learning to drive business and operational improvements. A successful candidate must be passionate about building solutions that will help drive a more efficient operations network and optimize cost. In this role, you will partner with data engineering, Tooling team, operations, Training, Customer Service, Capacity planning and finance teams, driving optimization and prediction solutions across the network.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Data Scientist with proven abilities to build and manage modeling projects, identify data requirements, build methodology and tools that are statistically grounded
The candidate will be an expert in the areas of data science, optimization, machine learning and statistics, and is comfortable facilitating ideation and working from concept through execution.
The candidate is customer obsessed, innovative, independent, results-oriented and enjoys working in a fast-paced growing organization.
An interest in operations, manufacturing or process improvement is helpful. The ability to embrace this ambiguity and work with a highly distributed team of experts is critical.
As we scale up, there is opportunity to own globally impactful work and grow your career in technical, programmatic or people leadership.
You will likely work with Python or R, though specific particular modelling language.
Your problem-solving ability, knowledge of data models and ability to drive results through ambiguity are more important to us.


About the team
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Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of data scientist experience
- 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
- 5+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
- 2+ years of guiding and coaching a group of researchers experience
- 5+ years of working with or evaluating AI systems experience
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM), or experience working in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree or above in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)
- Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to reasoning and problem-solving
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
- Experience in defining and creating benchmarks for assessing GenAI model performance
- Experience applying quantitative analysis to solve business problems and making data-driven business decisions

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