Senior Data Scientist – AI Governance

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About the role

  • Senior Data Scientist designing and developing AI solutions for real business cases at Intact. Leading projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve technical excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop end-to-end AI solutions to tackle real business cases.
  • Lead AI projects from exploration, implementation, testing to monitoring phases.
  • Transform complex and unstructured data into actionable insights and outcomes.
  • Work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, business SMEs, developers, designers, in a cross-functional team to build AI solutions in AWS.
  • Act as a technical lead to provide oversight and expert insights to research and data science teams.
  • Use analytics to understand software usage patterns and give recommendations on opportunities, risks, and improvements.
  • Coach and mentor junior members of the team.
  • Design, enforce, and lead compliance with data science best practices: coding, peer-review, strategy and approach selection, experimentation, testing and monitoring.

Requirements

  • Hold an educational degree in data science, engineering, or a related field, or any combination of equivalent education and experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience in data science applications and product development, with a strong focus on NLP and machine learning.
  • Strong communication, leadership and AI project management skills.
  • Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) - integrating with APIs and evaluation techniques.
  • Experience with developing, deploying, and maintaining software in cloud environments (strong preference for AWS).
  • Multi-platform production experience with the following: Python, GitHub, AWS, and CI/CD tools.
  • Expert-level understanding of the underlying theory of machine learning.
  • Can focus on vaguely defined issues requiring the application of a creative approach.
  • Ability to collaborate with others and to coach junior members of staff.
  • Enthusiasm for teamwork and ability to communicate with colleagues of diverse backgrounds.
  • Bilingualism (English-French), For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country.

Benefits

  • Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.
  • Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
  • Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
  • Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more
  • Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)
  • Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$118,700 - CA$145,100 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudPython

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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