Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon

Global Operational Excellence, GOX DEA

Salary not provided
AWS
R
Hadoop
Azure
Spark
Kubeflow
Hive
Sagemaker
Senior and Expert level
London
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
AWS
R
Hadoop
Azure
Spark
Kubeflow
Hive
Sagemaker
Senior and Expert level
London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • Highly technical and analytical, possessing 7+ years of Machine Learning and/or Analytics Systems development and deployment experience, IT systems and engineering experience, security and compliance experience, etc
  • BS level technical degree required; Computer Science or Mathematics background preferred
  • Possess significant experience of software development and/or IT and implementation/consulting experience
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organisations and virtual teams
  • Ability to understand complex business requirements and render them as prototype systems with quick turnaround time
  • Experience with implementation and tuning in the Big Data Ecosystem, (such as EMR, Hadoop, Spark, R, Presto, Hive), ML Platforms (SageMaker, Kubeflow, Azure Machine Learning, SAS, Domino), and MLOps (model development, orchestration and deployment, monitoring, optimisation)
  • Track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of business environments such as large enterprises and start-ups
  • Knowledge of foundation infrastructure requirements such as Networking, Storage, and Hardware Optimisation
  • AWS Certification, eg. AWS Solutions Architect, Developer, or AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty

Desirable

  • Hands on experience leading large-scale big data and analytics projects
  • Hands on experience as a database, data warehouse, big data/analytics developer or administrator, or work as a data scientist
  • Hands on experience architecting, deploying and maintaining production machine learning systems
  • Demonstrated industry leadership in the fields of Big Data processing, Data Sciences and Machine Learning
  • Deep understanding of data, application, server, and network security
  • Experience with Statistics, Machine Learning and Predictive Modelling
  • Working knowledge of modern software development practices and technologies such as agile methodologies and DevOps/MLOps

What the job involves

  • GOX team is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to support our vision of giving our customers the best fulfillment experience in the world, and our mission of delighting our customers by providing capabilities, tools and mechanisms to fulfillment operations
  • As Skynet Sr APSCI, you would be providing resources and expertise for all data related reports (dashboard, scorecards…), analysis (statistical approach), and Machine Learning products and tools development
  • On top of your internal customers within GOX team you would be supporting more widely with your experience and skills all across the org, partnering with a wide range of departments within Ops Integration (Packaging, Sustainability) within the company mainly with ICQA, ATS, AMZL, GTS… on several projects
  • You will be part of the community of Scientists within Amazon Operations including other AS, BIEs, SDEs, … split across the different departments
  • You will be part of projects requiring your close collaboration and interactions with Operations that require you to have a good understanding of product flow and process all along the distribution chain
  • The GOX team is now recognized for its expertise and excellence in creating tools that improve massively the customer experience
  • Several of them now rolled out in other regions with some of these tools becoming worldwide standard
  • Reporting to the GOX Senior Manager, you will be responsible for developing the data-driven decision process from historical data and ML based predictive analysis and maintaining accurate and reliable data infrastructure
  • You will work across the entire business, and be exposed to a wide range of functions from Operations, Finance, Technology, and Change management
  • The successful candidate will be able to work with minimal instruction and oversight, manage multiple tasks and support projects simultaneously
  • Maintaining your relationships with the customers in operations and within the team, while owning deliverables end-to-end is expected
  • Critical to the success of this role is your ability to work with big data, develop insightful analysis, communicate findings in a clear and compelling way and work effectively as part of the team, raising the bar and insisting on high standards.stomer requests
  • Responsible for producing high-level and low-level designs, and providing advice and support for transition, transformation and delivery on a variety of initiatives such as cloud migrations, data centre moves, server-based computing and desktop transformation technologies such as VDI and application virtualisation
  • The Technical Architect also applies functional knowledge and technical expertise to design systems that support customer needs
  • GOX DEA team is the engine of Amazon Operational excellence at the heart of the fulfillment network operations, aspiring zero defects. It is our purpose to improve Customer Experience through flawless fulfillment focused on 1) successful on-time delivery, 2) at speed and 3) at the lowest possible cost. Our Solutions support on-time delivery of billions of packages to our customers across the globe leveraging AI & Generative AI technology

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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