Forward Financing

Senior Data Scientist

Forward Financing

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$153,000 - CA$195,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, develop and deploy advanced statistical or machine learning models related to credit risk, pricing, collections, fraud, and other high-impact business use cases that drive better data-driven decisions
  • Execute the full model lifecycle, from initial data discovery and feature engineering to deployment, monitoring and iterative improvement
  • Partner with cross-functional teams including Portfolio Strategy, Collections, Engineering, Product, Underwriting, and Sales to integrate models into our applications and ensure they function seamlessly
  • Communicate complex technical concepts, model results, and business implications to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Develop production-grade code and contribute to internal toolkits, documentation, and peer code review to ensure high-quality delivery
  • Build and maintain production machine learning pipelines and monitoring systems to ensure models are reliable, scalable and continuously improving

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on model development and deployment experience using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques such as generalized linear models, gradient boosting and deep learning
  • Experience in fintech or financial services, specifically building Collections models, is highly preferred.
  • Proficient in Python, SQL and Git
  • Experience with workflow orchestration tools, such as Metaflow
  • Experience deploying and managing models within a cloud platform (AWS, Sagemaker)
  • Strong foundation in statistics and machine learning, and knowledge of experimental design
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving ability
  • Nice to have experience: cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks), Metaflow, Arize, Sagemaker, decision engines (e.g. Taktile), feature stores (e.g. Tecton)
  • Bachelor's degree in Financial/Applied Math, Operations Research, Economics, and/or Statistics. Masters/PhD is a plus.
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • commuter benefits
  • a flexible time-off policy
  • paid parental leave
  • 401k match for US employees
  • wellness reimbursement
  • volunteering days
  • annual professional development budget
  • charitable donation match
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningstatistical modelingfeature engineeringgeneralized linear modelsgradient boostingdeep learningPythonSQLGitstatistics
Soft Skills
communication skillscritical thinkingproblem-solving