Data Scientist II - AMZ27028.1
Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Houston, TX · Yesterday
Management$136k–$184k/yrFull-time
About the role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Basic Qualifications
- 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
Required Skills
- Building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources
- Writing SQL scripts for analysis and data migration
- Applying specialized modelling software including R, Python, or MATLAB
Pay
Salary Range $136,000 - $184,000 annually
Schedule
40 hours / week, 8:00am - 5:00pm
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)