Senior Data Scientist: AI & ML for Enterprise Impact

Banque Nationale du Canada; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness program

Employee Share Ownership Plan

Employee and family assistance program

Preferential banking services

Involvement in community initiatives

Virtual sleep clinic

Job summary

National Bank of Canada is seeking a senior data scientist for the Western Excellence Center AI and Transformation Delivery. You will design, deploy, and operationalize data science solutions to improve client experience, strengthen risk management, and boost efficiency.

You will frame analytics, develop ML models including LLM and RAG, perform EDA, manage model lifecycle, and promote best practices across teams with a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/engineering/data science/statistics with 3–5 years of production analytics experience.
• Hands-on data wrangling, preprocessing, visualization, ETL, and SAS Viya or equivalent.
• Knowledge of containers, orchestration, cloud environments (AWS/Azure), and deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Frame high-impact analytics and AI mandates with partners and translate into data science solutions.
• Design, develop, validate, and deploy ML, statistical, and LLM models including RAG solutions.
• Perform EDA, feature engineering, model experiments, and present findings to guide decisions.
• Implement model lifecycle practices: MLOps, CI/CD, monitoring, auditing documentation.
• Define best practices, reusable patterns, and documentation for models and data lineage.
• Support delivery activities: planning, testing, demonstrations, training, knowledge transfer.

Skills

Artificial intelligence

Data visualization

Data structures

Problem solving

Statistics

Teamwork

Data-driven decision-making

Detail-oriented

Initiative

Learning agility

Data pipeline

Exploratory data analysis

Business acumen

Delivery focus

Education

Degree in computer science / engineering / data science / statistics

Tools

SAS Viya

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Git / Source control

Job description

National Bank of Canada is seeking a senior data scientist for the Western Excellence Center AI and Transformation Delivery. You will design, deploy, and operationalize data science solutions to improve client experience, strengthen risk management, and boost efficiency.

You will frame analytics, develop ML models including LLM and RAG, perform EDA, manage model lifecycle, and promote best practices across teams with a hybrid work model.