Valtech

Data Scientist

Valtech

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$80,000 - CA$130,000 per year

About the role

  • Contribute to production readiness through monitoring, incident response support, and operational runbooks to meet agreed service levels.
  • Conduct root-cause analyses of known production issues leading to adverse model outputs.
  • Select and implement appropriate machine learning models for time-series forecasting and supply-chain optimization applications.
  • Contribute well-tested code to existing, object-oriented Python codebases.
  • Analyze a collection of raw data sets to create meaningful impact to large enterprise clients while maintaining a high degree of scientific rigor and discipline.
  • Engineer data pipelines and products to help stakeholders make and execute data driven decisions.
  • Communicate analytical findings in an intuitive and visually compelling way.
  • Creating highly visual and interactive dashboards via Tableau, PowerBI, or custom web applications.
  • Conducting deep dive analysis and designing KPIs to help guide business decisions and measure success.
  • Engineering data infrastructure, software libraries, and APIs supporting BI and ML data pipelines.
  • Architecting cloud data platform components enabling the above.
  • Building and tracking project timelines, dependencies, and risks.
  • Gathering stakeholder requirements and conducting technical due diligence toward designing pragmatic data-driven business solutions.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with GCP services used in production marketing analytics, including BigQuery, Vertex AI, Looker, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage and Cloud Run or equivalent deployment/runtime patterns.
  • Proven industry experience developing predictive or inferential statistical models or Masters/PhD degree in quantitative studies including Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or computation-intensive Sciences and Humanities.
  • Experience with statistical and machine learning libraries along with the ability to apply them appropriately to business problems.
  • Proficiency (can execute data ingestion to insight) in programmatic languages such as SQL, Python, and R.
  • Experience defining and reporting model acceptance metrics, including precision/recall, false-positive rate, and MAPE, with documented backtesting.
  • Experience delivering production model artifacts including model cards, model registry updates, confidence intervals/bands, and guardrail-aware recommendations.
  • More than 4 years of experience working in similar roles.
  • Advanced English skills.
Benefits
  • A comprehensive insurance plan, where you can choose the module that best suits your needs—Gold, Silver, or Bronze. The employer may contribute up to 80% of your coverage depending on the selected module. This plan includes short- and long-term disability coverage.
  • Dialogue via Sun Life provides virtual healthcare services, allowing you to consult with a healthcare professional for emergencies, prescription renewals, and more. You also have access to the Employee and Family Assistance Program, as well as a complete mental health support program.
  • A $500 Personal Spending Account, which can be used for healthcare reimbursements, gym memberships, public transit passes, office supplies, or contributions to your RRSP through Valtech.
  • A retirement plan where Valtech will match 100% of your RRSP contributions through a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), up to a maximum of 4%. You can start contributing to your RRSP immediately, and to the DPSP after 3 months. The vesting of the DPSP will be after a 24 months of service.
  • Access to a flexible vacation under Valtech's policy to support your work-life balance, with 5 days available during your probation period and a prorated amount calculated for the remainder of the year.
  • Personal Technology Reimbursement – $30/month for every employee-offered on day 1.
  • We close during the winter holidays and offer flexible scheduling throughout the year, so you can enjoy those sunny Friday afternoons—provided your weekly hours are completed.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningtime-series forecastingsupply-chain optimizationPythondata pipelinesstatistical modelsSQLRmodel acceptance metricsdata ingestion
Soft Skills
communicationanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingstakeholder managementproject management