Bilingual Senior Data Scientist
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
- Montreal, QC
- $81,410-101,763 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 5 weeks of vacation.
- Annual individual performance bonus.
- Defined benefit pension plan.
- Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one.
- Support in your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more – because when you thrive, we thrive.
- An inclusive workplace culture and environment with Employee Resource Groups and more.
- A hybrid work model that lets you balance working from home and nurturing in-person connections by coming into your region’s office at a minimum of 4 times a month.
Join the Analytics, Commercial Solutions team as a Bilingual Senior Data Scientist. In this role, you will be responsible for introducing new, innovative analytics techniques and modeling complex problems to support data-driven solutions for CMHC`s commercial business. This role involves proficiency in integrating and preparing large and varied datasets, and communicating these results to various audiences, including senior management.What you’ll do:
- Responsible for modeling complex analytics problems, discovering insights and identifying opportunities through the use of advanced statistical and predictive modeling techniques.
- Explore and implement complex techniques such as natural language processing, text mining, multivariate testing, machine learning and deep learning techniques.
- Work with the Analytics team to support the maturity of the Analytics capability by introducing analytics approaches, lead knowledge transfer activities, and develop and introduce best practices.
- Conduct advanced data analysis and apply or develop appropriate complex algorithms. In doing so, you will apply advanced statistical and predictive modeling techniques to build, maintain, or enhance analytical solutions.
- Present, recommend and communicate analytics solutions in an efficient and easily understandable way to a wide variety of audiences, including senior management.
- Document progresses, finalize model build books, share findings through presentations and reports, and apply visualization techniques that can easily be comprehended and simplified for non-technical stakeholder audiences.
- An undergraduate degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Physics or any other related quantitative field.
- A minimum of 5 years working with advance analytics and data science technologies.
- Demonstrated proficiency in SAS, Python/R, SQL, Alteryx and an experience using a wide range of analytical techniques (e.g. supervised learning, clustering, natural language processing (NLP), time series analysis, A/B testing, regressions, correlations, statistical significance, network/link analysis, sentiment analysis, large language models).
- Solid experience manipulating large datasets and using databases. Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL and Hive.
- Demonstrated experience working with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Cassandra or Hadoop.
- Advanced critical thinking and problem solving skills which drives creativity and innovation.
- A strong ability to work on several initiatives simultaneously and work within tight deadlines.
- Advanced ability to communicate abstract analytics findings to business teams and senior management.
- Bilingualism (English and French).
- A Master’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Physics or any other related quantitative field.
- A broad understanding of the Canadian housing market including mortgage loan insurance, affordable/social programs, housing finance and socio-economic indicators.
- Demonstrated experience using AI (e.g. generative AI, large language models) for solving problems.