Data Scientist - Ottawa, Canada - Ciena

Ciena
Ciena
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Ottawa, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual's passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We're a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Why Ciena:


  • We are big proponents of
    lifework integration and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, parttime work.
  • We believe an
    inclusive, diverse and barrierfree work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.
  • We recognize the importance of
    wellbeing and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and also offer a variety of paid family leave programs.
  • We are committed to
    employee development, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of inhouse learning and mentorship opportunities.
  • We know that
    financial security is important. We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU's (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program.
  • We realize
    time away to recharge is important. We offer flexible paid time off
  • Great work deserves
    recognition. We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance.

How You Will Contribute:


Reporting to Senior Director, People & Culture, as a Data Scientist, you will play an important role in Ciena's transformational journey from operational reporting to advanced analytics.


  • You will perform exploratory data analysis for data modeling and data preprocessing to determine patterns and trends.
  • Partner with key customers to understand business requirements and translate requirements for the purpose of building data models and visualization.
  • You will own the design, development, and support to data models and visualization dashboard, pulling data from the data warehouse (Snowflake / Oracle data warehouse) or other sources.
  • You will share options for high quality visuals for the requirements of new / enhancement of operational reports / dashboard, produce monthly & quarterly metrics reports and curate meaningful business insights from that data for the Executive Leadership Team.
  • You will monitor data and complete data analysis with the goal of early detection of new trends and developing new insights and build models for predictive analytics.
  • You will provide support to existing team members, conducting analysis, and build PowerBI dashboards to address ad hoc requests from all functions within the P&C team.

What Does Ciena Expect of You?
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Customer first mentality - you possess the ability to readily engage with customers, understanding the people issues they are focussed on, and providing them with the applicable metrics/analysis to enable informed decision-making.
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Initiative - You're a self-starter who works with limited direction and is accountable for resolving issues quickly and delivering against aggressive deadlines.
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Agility - you thrive in an ambiguous environment, readily able to manage time-sensitive, competing and ever-changing priorities while maintaining a balanced and methodical approach to problem solving.

  • The flexibility to
    work independently and as
    part of a broader team you thrive in a collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment, but are comfortable working independently as required.
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Relationship builder - you're able to build trusted internal and external relationships quickly, enabling you to understand the issues, influence and get work done.
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Analytical ability - you're a proficient data storyteller and critical thinker, quickly able to assess large amounts of data and identify relevant trends, gaps and inflexion points.
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Discretion
- with the proven ability to handle extremely confidential information in a sensitive fashion.
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Communication expertise - you can readily formulate clear, concise and fact-based messages, tailoring such to global audiences to ensure understanding and agreement.
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A commitment to learning - you are curious You enjoy learning to use new data tools and technologies, exploring industry trends and using your learnings to better understand and provide solutions to sophisticated business problems.


The Must Haves:


  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering, or other related field of study coupled with proven experience in data modelling, implementing PBI for visualization and reporting.
  • Experience in analyzing data from a variety of sources in a large, multinational organization, identifying linkages, highlighting insights and proposing conclusions.
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Excel, and other more enhanced data analytics tools as well as practical knowledge of d
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