North America Consumer is one of Amazon’s largest businesses, including North America retail and third party sellers, as well as an array of innovative new programs including Alexa Shopping and Amazon Business. The NA Consumer Finance organization is looking for a smart, motivated, and driven Sr. Data Scientist to build out a new source of analytical capability for the team. In this critical role, the successful candidate will influence decisions by making improvements to existing financial models as well as implementing state-of-the-art solutions to never before solved problems. In doing so you will provide perspective on the most important business issues that affect a wide diversity of customers and products. As a Sr. Data Scientist you will be responsible for modeling complex business challenges, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of statistical, machine learning, algorithmic, data mining and visualization techniques. You will need to collaborate effectively
· Bachelor or Master's degree in highly quantitative field (CS, machine learning, mathematics, statistics) or equivalent experience. · Experience with R, Python, SAS, Matlab or other statistical/machine learning software. · Experience applying various machine learning techniques, and understanding the key parameters that affect their performance. · Experience developing experimental and analytic plans for data modeling processes, use of strong baselines, and the ability to accurately determine cause and effect relationships. · Have a history of building systems that capture and utilize large data