Data Scientist, Private Brand Analytics

Job description

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This role is on the Core Tech Private Brands Analytics (PBA) team, a cross-functional team (software engineering, data science, data engineering, business intelligence) that owns Amazon Private Brands (APBs) central data infrastructure and builds platforms and models that help improve business performance. In this job you will build and improve forecasting and planning models across APB, partnering with business, science, and tech stakeholders. Day-to-day work includes end-to-end pipeline development (feature engineering through training and deployment) on SageMaker, S3, and Datanet, replacing manual spreadsheet-driven processes with reproducible code-driven pipelines and dashboards, evaluating model accuracy across business segments, and contributing to APB's science standards alongside a senior scientist assessing the org's AI framework and experimentation rigor.

Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate has strong fundamentals in forecasting and applied ML, experience with Python and SQL, comfort working with large-scale retail datasets, and the ability to communicate findings clearly to non-technical partners.

Basic Qualifications

- 1+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- 2+ years of data/research scientist, statistician or quantitative analyst in an internet-based company with complex and big data sources experience
- 1+ years of creating or contributing to mathematical textbooks, research papers, or educational content experience
- Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM), or experience working in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of statistical packages and business intelligence tools such as SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS, or R
- Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to reasoning and problem-solving
- Experience with clustered data processing (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Map-reduce, and Hive)
- Experience working with or evaluating AI systems
- Experience applying quantitative analysis to solve business problems and making data-driven business decisions
- Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication

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.

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 85,200.00 - 142,300.00 CAD annually