Hybrid Data Scientist I – Information Technology

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About the role

  • Data Scientist developing and implementing the data analytics strategy at Alberta Blue Cross. Collaborating with teams to enhance data-driven decision-making in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in problem solving initiatives, collaborating within a cross functional team of specialists, to design innovative solutions for clients and business leaders
  • Participate in the wrangling of data, especially regarding the more practical aspects like quality assurance, cleaning, aggregation and integration
  • Apply data science expertise including descriptive, predictive, machine learning, deep learning, and AI techniques to generate new insights and solve business problems
  • Demonstrate creative problem solving and ability to translate data patterns into business insights, cause/effect relationships and variables to amplify predictive power of underlying models
  • Provide business recommendations by distilling complex data science findings into clear, actionable insights, and effectively presenting them through visual displays to stakeholders at all levels, assisting with data-driven decision-making

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctoral degree in computing science, statistics, mathematics, engineering, or a related field in which advanced statistical methods are used
  • 2+ years of quantitative analysis experience, including handling, manipulating, and analyzing data and creating analytical reports
  • Ability to translate business questions to data questions and present results in ways that make complicated relationships clear
  • Comfortable using one or more statistical programming languages (i.e., Python/R) for data analysis and data engineering languages such as SQL and PySpark to work with large data sets and relational databases
  • Familiarity with Azure, Databricks, Power BI and star schema data modeling is preferred
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work effectively as an autonomous data scientist on a small project, and to collaborate with an interdisciplinary group on larger projects
  • Disciplined curiosity, consistent with the best traditions of science
  • Deep knowledge and experience of the algorithms and techniques of traditional statistics and modern data science especially as they pertain to business and experimentation
  • Experience in utilizing Generative AI to solve business problems with unstructured data, with the focus on enhancing efficiency, fostering innovation, and driving organizational impact.

Benefits

  • Written and verbal communication skills
  • Opportunities for career growth
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Diverse and inclusive workplace

Job title

Data Scientist I – Information Technology

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Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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