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Expert Data Science

Job IDDC-74-B3-BF-2C-3A
CompanyCN
Location6 Locations Available
ProvinceAcross Canada
Date Posted2021-09-10
Posted Until2021-11-09
Job TypeFull-time
Job CategoryInformation Technology
Description
You will be part of a team that spans across all business domains. You will provide advanced analytical insights using data analysis and machine learning techniques. You will collaborate with teams across the company, exploring various data sources to help identify new opportunities while driving the adoption of AI. As an expert data scientist, you will combine your knowledge of machine learning and software development skills to automate model development, training, and deployment. You will leverage your experience in building reusable algorithms, functions, and libraries to use in model development for predictive and prescriptive analytics.

Story telling is critical to the change management practice of putting the model into real live environment. Success will be dependent on hypothesis generation, exploration of data, using AI to discover insights, to developing automation pipelines and visual – analytics all being explained to our stakeholder’s community.

The Data & Analytics team is helping CN to create a data-driven culture where everyone can make better decisions, grounded in trusted data, and augmented by the power and scale of analytics. Using advanced data platforms, and AI tooling, decisions can happen at just the right moment, impacting the environment, safety and operational excellence for our customers and team members, while always keeping an eye on the future, ready to explore...

We are highly innovative, and passionate, we believe anything is possible, by embracing people culture, using the right technology, and having an agile mindset, we will drive the highest value to customers…

Interested in working with a team of data innovators, and being part of a culture of transformation, creativity, and teamwork? If so, we would love to connect with you!

Main Responsibilities

Work with structured and unstructured raw data to design and develop innovative predictive models, metrics, and dashboards to uncover actionable insights
Visualize and report data findings creatively in a variety of visual formats that provide insights to the organization
Influence how we approach business challenges and opportunities by driving the adoption of a data driven mindset
Support and evolve the Advanced Analytics and Data Science roadmap by leveraging industry research, best practices, and emerging tools/technology
Collaborate on end-to-end automation efforts required to bring models to production
Build and maintain a strong engagement with key stakeholders to understand business needs and priorities
Education RequirementsMasters or PhD degree in a quantitative field such as Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, or Data Science
Essential SkillsTechnical Skills/Knowledge

Solid development experience with Python and comfortable using various data science libraries such as Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy as well as frameworks like TensorFlow, Pytorch, Keras and have applied these skills towards solving actual business matters
Comfortable working in and with a Jupyter like environment and infrastructure, and familiar with GitHub, Data bricks
Have advanced knowledge in SQL and Apache Spark
Expert level experience with at least one of the cloud computing platforms – Azure, AWS, GCP
Familiar with Tableau and/or Power BI visual analytics purposes
Well versed in software and AI development lifecycles, including ML Ops
Have agile experience and have a bias for action, removing blocks to get results fast
ExperienceExperience in the application of data mining and analysis, predictive modeling, statistics, and other advanced analytical techniques with hands-on work experience
7-8 or more years of hands-on work and practical business experience in Machine Learning and AI, including classification, clustering, time series analysis, NLP, demand forecasting and optimization
Excellent communication skills and capable of breaking down technical and complex concepts in a way that is understood by non-technical audiences
LanguagesEnglish
Additional SkillsExperience with SAFe agile methodology and work in a fast-paced environment
Having Azure or other cloud certifications, For example Azure Data Lake, Data Bricks
OtherJob available in these locations:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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