Data Scientist at Desjardins, a financial services cooperative, developing advanced analytics, machine learning and AI models. Advising stakeholders and supporting data - driven business decisions.
About the role
- Data Scientist improving financial solutions for Canadians at Borrowell. Collaborating with teams to analyze data and enhance user experience in financial products.
Responsibilities
- Deliver measurable business impact – Own 1-2 end-to-end data science projects, from problem framing and analysis through implementation, measurement, and iteration.
- Use data to solve business problems – Apply analytics, experimentation and machine learning where appropriate, while recognizing when a simpler solution is the better choice.
- Contribute to Borrowell’s personalization and recommendation systems – Help improve how products and experiences are matched to members across the marketplace and member lifecycle.
- Partner closely with stakeholders – Work with Product, Business, Data, and Engineering teams to turn business questions into actionable insights and recommendations.
- Help scale the team’s capabilities – Contribute reusable datasets, features, documentation, monitoring, and processes that make it easier to build and maintain data products over time.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience applying data science, analytics and machine learning to solve real business problems.
- Able to break down ambiguous business questions, identify the right data to use and recommend a practical path forward.
- Experience building and evaluating predictive models, including feature engineering, model validation, and handling challenges such as class imbalance, leakage, and data quality issues.
- Experience with experimentation and A/B testing.
- Strong Python skills and SQL skills for Data Science work.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills – able to clearly explain insights, recommendations, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable owning work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- **Nice to Haves:**
- Experience working with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or Redshift.
- Experience with Looker or other BI tools for analysis and stakeholder reporting.
- Experience in consumer technology, fintech, marketplaces or growth-oriented product environments.
Benefits
- The Opportunity - join and have a major impact at a growing company that is helping make financial stability possible for everybody
- Comprehensive Health Benefits - medical, dental, vision, and paramedical health benefits for you and your family, with extra yearly coverage for psychotherapists and massage therapists
- Additional Health Benefits - virtual benefit offering that allows you to connect 24/7 with nurses, doctors and mental health professionals
- Maternity & Parental Leave Top-up - available to new parents
- WFH Reimbursement - we ship you gear like a laptop, mouse, keyboard, and you can reimburse additional items to make your workplace better for you
- Employee Development Benefit - annual reimbursements on payments to help your learning
- Givewell Benefit - 1 paid volunteer day a year to give back to the community
- Flexibility - flexible working hours and a flexible vacation policy
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