Senior Data Science Advisor

As a senior data science advisor, you provide the data needed to make business decisions, develop solutions and services adapted to business issues and operational process optimization research. You had a leadership role with our business partners in projects developing models adapted to various business needs, and in strategic and complex interventions in advanced analytics and artificial intelligence. You help solve business problems that have a high degree of operational and conceptual complexity, including claims management, and that require use of multiple data sources and comprehensive and detailed analysis and understanding of the property and casualty insurance industry. You interact with many colleagues, partners and clients from a wide range of fields, to understand and communicate issues and influence decision-making. More specifically, you will be required to:

• Ensure the exploration and evaluation of various available data, their characterization, quality inspection, adjustments, and selection of predictors within diverse and complex predictive modeling mandates.

• Analyze the business needs of clients and partners, produce hypotheses, and lead mandates considering the specificities related to their operationalization and ensuring alignment during their deployment.

• Use advanced methods in statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to exploit data, develop, and optimize models and segmentations that meet business needs.

• Ensure the necessary programming for data preparation and exploration, development, evaluation, support, deployment, and management of highly complex models.

• Produce, communicate, and simplify presentations and data visualizations to influence business decisions in their sector to the management.

• Write frameworks and data modeling methods and ensure compliance with specifications allowing optimal performance of constructed models. Ensure the development of documentation, preparation, and dissemination of training.

• Identify opportunities for optimization of rules and systems, anticipate the underlying impacts of changes, and bring evolutions to data management tools.

What we offer*

• 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

*Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria.

What you bring to the table

• 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

• Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered

• 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)

Complexity, Innovation, Interpersonal Savvy

Trade Union (If applicable)

At Desjardins, we believe in equity, diversity and inclusion. We're committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. At Desjardins, we have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind. We believe our teams should reflect the diversity of the members, clients and communities we serve.

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Job Family

Data (FG)

Unposting Date

2025-05-9