Data Science Manager - Toronto, Canada - Peoples Group

Peoples Group

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

About us:

Peoples Group is a boutique Financial Institution with offices located in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal that has been in the Canadian marketplace for over 30 years.

Our mission is to exceed our customers' expectations by providing exceptional customer service backed by extensive product knowledge and experience.

Our culture here at Peoples Group is formed by our values; Strength-Based, Relationship Focused, and Passionate Execution. We believe people don't choose a company to work for, they choose a company to _join_. We also believe that people come first and each day we strive to be willing, trustworthy, and creative.

About the work environment:

Peoples Group offers a flexible work environment with a combination of in-office and remote from-home work options for our employees.

Typically, you'll be working regular business hours, Monday to Friday between 8:00am and 4:30pm with flexibility around start & end times.

About you:

As an experienced Data Scientist, you establish best-in-class data infrastructures, predictive modeling and data analytics for new lines of business.

You collaborate closely with Credit Risk teams, helping to drive business growth and intelligent, data-driven lending decisions. You operate at both a tactical (day-to-day) and strategic level, helping to craft the long-term vision for the team.

About you / qualifications:

5+ years of experience handling large datasets, designing data architectures, and building statistical models
An appetite to stay up to date on best data and modeling practices
University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or similar quantitative field
Expertise in performing data extraction and manipulation, and proficiency in programming languages (R, Python, MatLab, etc.)
Highly motivated, selfstarter who can operate with a high degree of autonomy

About the day-to-day:

Develop and maintain clean, transformed data models, with a focus on predictive risk models, ready for analytic and data science use cases
Understand business needs in order to build models that can be easily consumed
Ensure proper documentation of data tables and models and provide training as needed
Help set up data warehouse design and integration with Credit Risk team processes
Set up detective controls to ensure high data quality
Study current data sources to develop accurate reporting
Help build internal tools to facilitate monitoring and data queries
NOTE: Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest; however only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.

Peoples Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer._