About the role

Senior Data Science Advisor providing data for business decisions and developing solutions. Role involves advanced analytics in the property and casualty insurance industry with a focus on model development.

Responsibilities

Provide the data needed to make business decisions
Develop solutions and services adapted to business issues and operational process optimization research
Oversee data mining, evaluation, feature engineering, quality inspection and adjustment of available data
Analyze client and partner business needs, generate hypotheses, and lead mandates
Use advanced statistical, machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to develop models
Create programming needed to prepare and mine data, and develop, evaluate, support, roll out and manage highly complex models
Prepare easy-to-understand presentations and data visualizations to support business decisions
Draft guidelines and data modeling methods, ensure specifications for optimal model performance are met
Identify opportunities to improve rules and systems

Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, actuarial sciences, computer science or a related field
At least six years of relevant experience in data science and predictive model development
Knowledge of French is required
Advanced proficiency of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members and/or clients
Mastery of at least one data analytics programming language (Python or R) and one data manipulation language (SAS or SQL)
Mastery in statistical approaches and machine learning methods (regression, decision trees, SVM, gradient reinforcement machines, clustering, neural networks, overall methods, etc.)
Practical knowledge of leading data science libraries (machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, visualization)

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 and telework equipment