Onsite Data Scientist

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About the role

  • Data Scientist focusing on supporting Canadian business units with advanced analytics at Sun Life. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive value through data science techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Translate business goals into analytical problems
  • Identify optimal algorithms and statistical techniques suitable for business problems
  • Work in cross-functional teams to develop ML/data science products
  • Apply best-in-breed data science techniques including descriptive, predictive, and machine learning methods
  • Focus on feature engineering, model training and evaluation
  • Use AWS services including SageMaker, Lambda, and other AI/ML services
  • Engage and negotiate with stakeholders, making business recommendations with effective presentations

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 1-2 years of experience developing and implementing data science solutions
  • Proficient in Python for data science and application development
  • Experience writing complex SQL and PySpark queries to extract and integrate data from multiple sources
  • Solid understanding of hypothesis testing, causal inference, and model evaluation metrics
  • Experience with AWS, particularly SageMaker for training and deploying ML models
  • Strong understanding of APIs, microservices architecture, and cloud-native development

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Paid time off
  • Incentive plans based on individual and company performance

Job title

Data Scientist

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

CA$65,000 - CA$105,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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