Senior Data Scientist - Strategic Insights (Hybrid)

Questrade Financial Group; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing resources

Paid vacation & sick days

Competitive compensation

Hybrid in-office work

Career growth

Community involvement

Diverse team environment

Job summary

Questrade Financial Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to leverage advanced analytics to surface strategic insights across multi-product and multi-channel financial services. You will lead data-driven initiatives, from problem formulation to model development, and mentor teammates while collaborating with Strategy & Corporate Development to embed analytics into product decisions.

The role involves building predictive models, dashboards, and analytics infrastructure to inform customer

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in data science, analytics or related field.
• Ability to translate business situations into credible analytics frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale customer, transactional and financial datasets.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for data extraction, analysis and model development.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in business discussions and storytelling.
• Ability to multi-task with minimal supervision and uphold commitments.
• Self-learner capable of independent study of new concepts and tools.
• Ability to review and critique technical work of the team.
• Ability to coach and mentor other team members.

Responsibilities

• Supporting Strategy and Corporate Development team with data requests to inform decision making.
• Collaborating on customer segmentation and profitability analysis.
• Contributing to set up and inputs for customer / product profitability models.
• Building and refining predictive models.
• Embedding data and analytics throughout strategy and new product development process.
• Making improvement recommendations to analytics data infrastructure.
• Building dashboards to support insight generation and business management.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Storytelling

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Questrade Financial Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to leverage advanced analytics to surface strategic insights across multi-product and multi-channel financial services. You will lead data-driven initiatives, from problem formulation to model development, and mentor teammates while collaborating with Strategy & Corporate Development to embed analytics into product decisions.

The role involves building predictive models, dashboards, and analytics infrastructure to inform customer