Data Scientist

Stott and May
New York, NY

Data Scientist / Data Engineer (Ecommerce) Contract Opportunity


Work:

We’re supporting an ecommerce client looking for a hybrid Data Scientist / Data Engineer contractor to help scale data products and drive insights across customer, product, and digital performance data.


Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain data pipelines supporting analytics and machine learning use cases
  • Develop models and analyses around customer behavior, recommendations, forecasting, and conversion optimization
  • Work with large-scale ecommerce data (clickstream, transactions, inventory, marketing)
  • Design and optimize datasets for reporting, experimentation, and predictive modeling
  • Partner with analytics, product, and engineering teams to productionize solutions
  • Support data quality, performance tuning, and scalable data architecture

Requirements:

  • Strong Python and SQL skills
  • Experience in both data engineering and data science / ML workflows
  • Background building pipelines with tools like Airflow, Spark, dbt, or similar
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Exposure to recommendation systems, forecasting, customer analytics, or experimentation (A/B testing) preferred
  • Ecommerce, retail, or marketplace data experience strongly preferred

Details:

  • Fully remote
  • 40 hours/week (full-time contract)
  • Initial 6-month contract with likely extension
  • W2 or personal LLC only (no C2C)
  • Rates competitive and dependent on experience (target $80–$110/hr)

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