Lead Data Scientist

Insight Global; Vancouver; Remote; CAD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the gaming industry seeks a Lead Data Scientist to drive analytics for major mobile titles. This role combines technical expertise in machine learning with stakeholder management, offering a unique opportunity to impact game development. Candidates should have a strong background in data science and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant experience or 3+ years with a Master's degree.
• Experience with supervised/unsupervised machine learning.
• Proficient in SQL and Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead mobile portfolio data science efforts.
• Implement machine learning models into production.
• Communicate with stakeholders to gather and prioritize requirements.

Skills

Machine Learning

Data Wrangling

Statistical Modelling

SQL

Python

Communication

Education

Master's in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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Base pay range

CA$45.00/hr - CA$50.00/hr

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Insight Global is looking for a Lead Data Scientist to join a large AAA gaming company remotely in Canada for a 6-month contract to hire opportunity. As a lead of the Mobile Porfolio in the Data and Analytics team, you will be supporting some of the largest mobile game titles in a high-profile role on a cutting-edge project to find mathematically vigorous new ways of getting games in hands. This team is fast-paced, and passion driven, and requires a Lead Data Scientist that is flexible to drive value, work in an agile environment, and who wants to make immediate impact. This role is 70% hands-on technical and 30% non-technical. Non-technical aspects include communicating with product stakeholders to acquire requirements and then prioritize and execute against them. Someone who is an excellent communicator, curious, self-driven and motivated will be a good fit. Areas of technical focus include working with supervised/unsupervised machine learning models such as classification and regression, and assisting getting models into production. Further, you will be working with data science experimental design and set up and statistical modelling on a day-to-day. Proficiency with huge data sets will be necessary prior experience. Overall, someone who has experience implementing machine learning models into products in a live environment, and preferably has seen both a successful and non-successful instance, will have transferable experience to be successful in this role.

Must Haves:

• 5+ years relevant professional experience, or 3+ years experience and a Masters in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Finance, Economics, or another quantitative field
• Experience with supervised/unsupervised machine learning (ML) such as classification and regression models, including at least some experience getting models into production (e.g. airflow, docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with data science experimental design and set up (e.g., treatment vs. control, statistical power) and statistical modelling (e.g., A/B testing, parametric and non-parametric tests, ANOVA)
• Proficiency with huge data sets, including data wrangling and feature engineering capabilities
• Proficient in SQL
• Proficient in Python
• Superior communication, self-starter, thought leader, strong stakeholder management capabilities

Plusses:

• Gaming background
• PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Finance, Economics, or another quantitative field
• Experience with neural networks and/or deep learning ML models
• Experience with causal inference experimentation data science

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Entertainment Providers

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