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 developing models, dashboards, and analytics to detect transactional fraud at Desjardins, North America’s largest cooperative financial group. Deploying and monitoring mitigation tools.
Responsibilities
- Design models and strategies to quickly detect transactional anomalies
- Explore, analyze and synthesize information to understand active fraud schemes
- Develop strategies for detecting transactional fraud
- Test the theoretical performance of fraud mitigation models, rules and tools
- Deploy fraud mitigation models, rules and tools into production
- Continuously monitor fraud patterns and model and strategy performance
- Research and develop predictive variables to improve fraud detection
- Develop, update and produce dashboards, data visualizations and reports
- Optimize and automate key fraud detection analytics processes
- Provide ad hoc advice on projects to improve fraud risk management tools
- Advise risk management teams and business sectors in the field
- Monitor industry trends and develop and update organizational best practices
- Support the Debit and Banking Payments Fraud Analytics team's mission to combat transactional fraud and protect members and clients
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- A minimum of four years of relevant experience
- Other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
- Experience in analytics with transactional data
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as IBM Cloud Pak® for Data or Microsoft Azure
- Experience with Apache Spark (via PySpark), Shiny, RStudio and Databricks
- Knowledge of French is required
- Proficiency in Python or R programming
- Proficiency in data science libraries and their limitations, including scikit-learn, pandas, Matplotlib, NumPy and SciPy
- Proficiency in SQL programming
- Knowledge of GitHub Actions
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual bonus
- 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
- Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
- Group insurance including telemedicine
- Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses
- Reimbursement of telework equipment
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