Associate Data Scientist - Toronto, Canada - KAR Global

KAR Global

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

THIS IS A REMOTE ELIGIBLE POSITION

KAR Global is looking for a new Data Scientist (Remote) to join our team of nimble Data Ninjas This position will encompass all aspects of the data lifecycle including but not limited to, data sourcing and cleansing, data engineering, data analysis, BI, and predictive modeling.

In addition, our team members are responsible for managing their projects in every aspect. This means customer interaction, project management and delivery are in scope of this role.

Reporting to the Director of Data Science, this position will be part of the team supplies intelligence that shapes decisions in every aspect of the business.

In keeping with one of our company mantras, "Data is the fuel for our future growth", you will bring trusted intelligence to the business.

Who We Are:
KAR Global is an online marketplace for auto dealers and is changing the way they buy/sell wholesale vehicles.

Through KAR Global, auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies can transact without having to go to physical auctions.

Our end-to-end solution is truly seamless for dealers, as KAR Global provides vehicle inspections, transportation, and inventory finance. Our mission is to make wholesale easy so dealers can be more successful.

The team at KAR Global includes professionals from both inside and outside the auto industry, which gives us a unique perspective on its problems and innovative solutions.

We blend our deep expertise in the auto industry and technology to modernize auto wholesale. We were founded in Kansas City and graduated from 500 Startups, a prestigious accelerator in Silicon Valley.

Since launching, we've seen tremendous growth and now help dealers buy and sell thousands of cars each month all across the United States.

We are looking for individuals who share our growth mindset, and who are ready to execute ideas that will change an industry.

If you are excited about marketplace growth and next-generation technology, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities and Duties:

Acquire, manipulate, and analyze big data sets from a variety of sources including social media, digital platforms, conversion data, or other firstparty client data and provide insights / recommendations around customer lifecycle & product usage.
Partner with the Director of Data Science for report development and adhoc analysis of sales and customer analytics.
Discover and support new business or product road map ideas with research and analytics strategy recommendations.
Assist in documentation of business requirements, business rules, and data sources & transformations.
Responsible for creation of easytounderstand, alwayson data analytic visualizations and automation.
Build and own continuous delivery ETL and analytics systems and content that are: almost real time, highly reliable, adaptable and reusable.
Project manage entire engagement with Product Owners, Sales & IT Teams to conduct data analysis, testing and report back findings on data.
Manage customer analysis requests and report troubleshooting.
Ability to understand OKR's and willing to have hard conversations when requests do not align with goals. (You'll have to say "No" sometimes).
Collaborate with crossfunctional teams for information sharing and ongoing process improvement endeavors.
Develop and implement data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and data quality.

Requirements and Qualifications:

Minimum 3 years of professional experience as a business analyst or data driven developer, dev ops, engineer, network analyst, etc.
Experience with statistical and ML tools such as R, Python, TensorFlow etc.
High proficiency in SQL based query languages. (Multiple flavors preferred)
Basic understanding of No-SQL based systems
Ability to turn loosely defined business rules into simple, reliable, autonomous and efficient business logic.
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, and aversion to using it
Programming experience in at least one language such as (Python,Ruby,Javascript preferred) or Cbased
Experience with (Domo preferred) or similar (PowerBI, Tableau)
SnowFlake experience a plus
Understand and use REST APIs and other web data structures
Familiarity with at least one cloud provider stack (AWS preferred) Azure, DigitalOcean, Google
Enthusiastic about managing multiple priorities and working diligently to see them to completion with strong organizational and communication skills
Motivated by challenge and autonomy.
Veracious learner enjoy selfdirected study