Sun Life

Data Scientist

Sun Life

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: TorontoCanada

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Salary

💰 CA$65,000 - CA$105,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Translate business goals into analytical problems
  • Identify optimal algorithms, statistical techniques, traditional ML suitable for the business problem at hand
  • Work in cross-functional teams to develop ML/data science products
  • Apply best-in-breed data science techniques including descriptive, predictive, and machine learning methods from design to implementation
  • Focus on feature engineering, model training and model evaluation
  • Use AWS services including SageMaker, Lambda and other AI/ML services
  • Work with data warehousing, pipelines, and big data technologies such as AWS Glue for ETL, Glue Catalog, Glue Data Quality, and AWS Step Functions

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 1-2 years of experience developing and implementing data science solutions
  • Proficient in Python for data science and application development
  • Experience writing complex SQL and PySpark queries to extract and integrate data from multiple sources
  • Solid understanding of hypothesis testing, causal inference, and model evaluation metrics
  • Experience with AWS, particularly SageMaker for training and deploying ML models
  • Proficiency in supervised and unsupervised models
  • Demonstrated experience in data transformation, manipulation, and working with structured vs. unstructured data
  • Strong understanding of APIs, microservices architecture, and cloud-native development
Benefits
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Flexible working hours
  • Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLPySparkmachine learningdata transformationfeature engineeringmodel trainingmodel evaluationhypothesis testingcausal inference
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingcross-functional teamwork