Data Scientist

Location: Stamford, CT (4 days per week onsite) Duration: 6 month contract to hire Pay: $50/hour - $60/hour Job Description: We are seeking a Data Scientist / Developer to join our incentives team. This hybrid role combines strong analytics and modeling expertise with hands-on technical development to support the standardization of incentive models, advanced performance analytics, backend modernization, and the build-out and maintenance of a new web-based incentive portal. You will transform complex sales and incentive data into scalable, accurate solutions that drive better decision-making across our sales channels while working in a highly agile environment that leverages AI tools to increase productivity. Key Responsibilities • Design, develop, and maintain complex incentive models, performance metrics, calculation logic, and advanced analytics frameworks • Integrate data from multiple sources and lead the transition of existing Alteryx workflows into scalable, automated solutions using AWS Redshift and related technologies • Develop and maintain automated email generation pipelines producing 750K+ personalized HTML emails per month • Build and deploy serverless microservices (Lambda, API Gateway) for lightweight data collection and automation tasks • Build and support backend systems and data integration processes for the new web-based incentive portal • Standardize incentive structures and performance analytics across sales channels • Optimize data pipelines, data models, and backend processes to improve scalability, performance, and data integrity • Develop dashboards, reports, forecasts, and ad hoc analytics to deliver actionable insights to sales leadership • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical and analytical solutions • Troubleshoot and resolve data quality, modeling, and performance issues • Work in an AI-first development environment - using AI coding assistants (Kiro, Copilot) daily for code generation, debugging, and data exploration. Contribute to building AI-augmented automation pipelines. • Work flexibly across analytics, and development tasks in a dynamic, agile environment with shifting priorities Required Qualifications • Expert-level SQL skills (T-SQL and/or Redshift SQL), including complex query writing, stored procedure development, performance tuning, and data modeling • Strong proficiency in Python for data processing, transformation, automation, and building serverless functions (AWS Lambda) • Experience designing and developing data integration processes, data models, and backend systems • Demonstrated ability to work with AWS Redshift and S3 in cloud data environments • Ability to transform business requirements into scalable technical and analytical solutions • Ability to handle multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced, agile environment with shifting requirements • Excellent communication skills – able to explain complex analyses and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Required Education • Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology or business related field, or equivalent experience