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
- Senior Data Scientist developing machine learning models for fraud detection at Wealthsimple. Collaborating with product managers to enhance client experience and ensure fraud risk balance.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with product managers to identify business opportunities, define success metrics, and execute product strategies to improve client experience.
- Develop and deploy machine learning models for fraud detection.
- Design and analyze experiments for new product/feature launches.
- Monitor and report fraud trends and client experience gaps
- Believe that simple is better - Occam's razor is your friend.
- Take ownership and ship it; release incrementally and iteratively.
- Teach and learn from your teammates. We value making others successful
Requirements
- Experience in product analytics and experimental design.
- Experience in building end-to-end machine learning pipelines.
- Data storytelling: able to explain data findings/solutions to non-technical audience.
- Strong technical skills in coding (SQL & Python).
- Comfortable with software engineering best practices.
- Results-driven: keep things simple to achieve the product goals
- Curiosity: willing to dive deep into product strategies and business context.
- Experience working in the fraud domain is a plus
Benefits
- Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
- Long-term group savings with employer match using our Wealthsimple for Business platform
- 20 vacation days + 4 wellness days per year, and unlimited sick and mental health days
- 90 days away program: Employees can work outside of Canada for up to 90 days per calendar year
- A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resources Groups (e.g., Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
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