Renewable 3-6 months contract.
Data Scientist
Your Mission
As a member of the Data Science team, your mission is to design, develop, and implement end-to-end cloud-based analytics production pipelines that are scalable, repeatable and secure.
Your Role & Main Responsibilities
Be a key contributor to the AI Strategy
· Design innovative Artificial Intelligence solutions to support aviation and health training operations.
· Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies.
· Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
· Develop custom AI solutions and algorithms to apply to data sets.
· Experiment advanced modeling methodologies that aim increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad targeting and other business outcomes.
· Develop company A/B testing framework for AI experimentation and results analysis.
· Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
· Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.
Be an active member of the business transformation
· Drive research on aviation & healthcare industry trends and the commercial applications of machine learning to be a differentiator in the market
· Lead multiple service-oriented large-scale machine learning related projects: from functional to the implementation plan
· Lead a team for rapid and iterative development of validated minimum viable solution
· Develop and prototype new machine learning techniques, run experiments to improve comprehension and model efficiency rate
Be an inspirational and motivational colleague
Be an inspirational and motivational colleague
· Share knowledge with team members & participate in various learning-sharing activities
· Contribute to the collaborative and stimulating work environment
· Be a change agent & Agile mindset promoter
· Be connected to the industry to know tendencies and suggest innovative ideas
Your Qualifications
Softskills
· A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
· Experience leading customer driven initiatives.
· Experience working in an Agile environment an asset.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams.
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Technical skills
· Have a Master or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Business Analytics or a related field
· Possess at least 5 years experience in Data Science or applied statistics.
· Strong problem solving skills with an emphasis on product development.
· Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python, SLQ, etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
· Experience manipulating data sets and building statistical models.
· Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (Random Forests, Support Vector machine, Gradient boosting, artificial neural networks, Bayesian networks, etc.) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks.
· Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (GLM/Regression, Time Series, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and experience with applications.
· Experience working with and creating data architectures.
· Experience using web services: Redshift, S3, Azure, Spark, DigitalOcean, etc.
· Experience analyzing data from 3rd party providers: Microsoft Application insights, Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, Coremetrics, Adwords, Crimson Hexagon, Facebook Insights, etc.
· Experience visualizing/presenting data for stakeholders using: Periscope, Microsoft Power BI, Business Objects, D3, ggplot, etc.