Employer: Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Position: Data Scientist II
Location: Houston, TX
Multiple Positions Available:
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.
(40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $136000 - $184000)
Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation
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 modelling software including R,
Python, or
MATLAB.
All applicants must meet all the above listed requirements.
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