Hybrid Data Scientist

at Helcim

• Job title: Data Scientist
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Apache, BigQuery, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Python, Spark, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Calgary, Canada

About the role

• Data Scientist at Helcim enhancing analytics for payment solutions. Collaborate in developing data products for key business functions in FinTech.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of our data products—from initial ideation and complex modeling to deployment, monitoring, and enabling business teams to maximize their impact.
• Design, develop, and implement production-grade data products that drive strategic business outcomes, from optimizing growth to mitigating risk.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to serve as the data science expert and liaison, treating data science as a service to enable strategic success.
• Translate complex business problems into clear analytical requirements and provide actionable, data-driven recommendations that can be used to drive results.
• Apply analytical techniques to optimize our growth and sales efforts, including providing the data and insights necessary for teams to effectively experiment on and improve conversion rates and optimizing spend for digital advertising campaigns.
• Develop and implement risk models to protect our merchants and Helcim, focusing on key areas like fraud and credit risk.
• Own the monitoring and ongoing iteration of deployed models, ensuring performance and alignment with business impact.
• Contribute to our MLOps strategy and partner with the Data Platform team to ensure data capture, cleanliness, and system development meet the high standards required for reliable, production-ready data products.

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years of industry experience in a Data Science or similar analytical modeling role.
• Demonstrated experience using statistical methods or machine learning algorithms to solve complex business problems.
• Experience collaborating on the deployment and full lifecycle maintenance of data products into a production environment.
• Proficiency in the programming languages of our analytics stack (SQL and Python) or other related languages.
• Proven ability to engage with cross-functional and non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements, communicate complex findings clearly, and drive results.
• Valued Skills & Assets: Experience in consumer or business credit, fraud modeling, or go-to-market/marketing analytics will be a significant asset.
• Experience with visualizing and organizing data through dashboards, charts, and reports (e.g., in Metabase).
• Experience with the following technologies: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and their BigQuery Data Warehouse Metabase or other business intelligence applications Data transformation technologies such as dbt Apache Spark or similar distributed computing platforms

Benefits

• Health and dental benefits: Through our Group Benefits, you’ll get access to dental benefits, extended healthcare benefits for drugs, vision, paramedical coverage (e.g. massage therapists, dieticians, mental health professionals), counseling, health service navigation, life insurance, critical illness and disability insurance, and more. All of these benefits come into effect on Day 1 of employment!
• Dedicated Health Spending Account (“HSA”): An additional budget available for you to spend on health-related expenses (e.g. eyeglasses, therapy).
• Maternity and Parental Leave: To help launch our team members into this phase of family life we have some additional benefits in place including salary top for the birthing parents and a bonding break for non-birthing parents.
• Stock Options: Stock options enable our team to purchase Helcim shares at a future date at a specified price. Every team member, not just people leaders and executives receive equity (aka ownership in the company).
• Vacation Time: All team members get paid vacation time and a company break in December so they can recharge when they need it.
• Flexible work location: Work and life happens at different times and places. This is why our team enjoys the flexibility of hybrid work and flexibility around hours of work, so we can all do our best work. Our hybrid work schedule offers flexibility to work from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Furthermore, our core hours give team members flexibility to manage other parts of their lives.
• Training: Helcim will cover 50% of the applicable training costs of up to $500 per year.