Applied Scientist - GIS w/ Amazon (Seattle)

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Job Description
Amazon’s Worldwide Operations team is looking for a GIS-capable applied scientist to help us determine new ways to optimize our global delivery network. If you want to join a fast-paced, innovative team that is making history and breaking new ground for Amazon, this is the place for you.

The successful candidate will be able to build predictive models to determine where we should deploy our latest delivery network solutions and defend your recommendations to senior leadership. We are a small team, so this individual must roll up their sleeves to identify different data sources and build/maintain the pipelines necessary to feed their models. This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities as well as outstanding business acumen and comfort with technical teams and systems. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and enjoying working with large scale of data.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyze and visualize large scale geo-spatial logistics and transaction data to determine user behavior or delivery process problems, and output solid analysis report with recommendation.
• Provide actionable insights into current delivery performance, and ad hoc investigations into future improvements or innovations. This will require data gathering and manipulation, synthesis and modeling, problem solving, and communication of insights and recommendations.• Develop queries and visualizations for delivery and GIS information related to the Amazon fulfillment network.
• Partner with our product management, engineering, and data science teams to build advanced analytics solutions that integrate data from many different sources
• Partner with product management, engineering and operations teams to define and refine hypotheses and tests
• Think creatively: Amazon is a place that is permanently pushing the boundaries of the industry. We are not looking for someone that will just estimate models and write analyses. We want someone that will extract insights and provide business recommendations to senior leadership and partner teams
• Generate Impact: We want someone obsessed with impact. We don’t want a person who is just interested in finding patterns in the data. We want someone that understands how to turn those discoveries into value for our customers every day

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Business Analytics, Information Systems or related field
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in business analytics, geospatial analytics or decision sciences
• Strong creative thinking skills with emphasis on developing innovative solutions to complex problems that may not have one clear answer
• Ability to interact, communicate, present and influence within multiple levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with customer and partner teams
• Ability to prioritize multiple competing demands to deliver for the customers in a specific time window
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
• SQL power user; PostGIS or similar database experience
• Advanced modeling via statistical software such as R, Stata, Python (Jupyter) or Matlab
• Experience with geoprocessing and Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in, Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Business Analytics, Information Systems or related field
• Demonstrated excellence in working with operations teams
• Advanced understanding and experience working with data warehousing, data quality
• Experience applying visualization tools such as interactive GIS visualization and processing systems, Tableau, Qlik View to data elements
• Experience implementing basic software solutions to automate data source, visualization and/or data modeling application
• Experience with GIS / Mapping software (specifically GDAL/OGR, QGIS)