Sr. Data Scientist, Capacity Planning

Amazon
Dallas, TX, USA / Seattle, WA, USA2026-07-17ONSITE

About the job

AWS Support's Capacity Planning team is looking for a strong, talented Data Scientist to model contact and volume forecasting, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of statistics, machine learning, and combinatorial optimization problems to drive business and operational improvements. You are passionate about building solutions that will help drive a more efficient operations network and optimize cost. In this role, you will partner with data engineering, tooling team, operations, training, workforce management and finance teams, driving optimization and prediction solutions across the network influencing the long-term strategy of the business.

Responsibilities

Establish and execute data management and strategy frameworks including data collection, storage, integration and ensuring data quality and integrity

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify data-related challenges and opportunities, develop data-driven solutions, and align data strategy with the organization's overall objectives

Conduct thorough research and analysis to understand organization's data needs and requirements, including evaluating existing data infrastructure and systems, identifying gaps and areas for improvement, and proposing innovative solutions.

Leverage large-scale data processing frameworks, such as Apache Spark or Hadoop, to handle big data and ensure efficient model training and evaluation

Continuously evaluate and improve machine learning models by incorporating feedback from stakeholders, monitoring their performance in real-world scenarios, and exploring new algorithms and techniques to enhance accuracy and efficiency

Develop and implement machine learning models that drive business value:

o Analyze historical data and identifying patterns, to forecast future outcomes and provide inputs into strategic plans

o Analyze customer data and market trends, to help develop targeted go to market strategies that our efforts are data driven and have a higher chance of success

o Analyze financial data, to identify cost-saving opportunities, optimize pricing strategies, and forecast revenue growth helping the leaders to make informed decisions

o Analyze operational data, to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for process improvement, helping in streamlining operations, reducing costs, and improving customer satisfaction

Qualifications

Minimum

5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience

4+ years of data scientist experience

Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression

Preferred

2+ years of data visualization using AWS QuickSight, Tableau, R Shiny, etc. experience

Experience managing data pipelines

Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team