Senior Data Scientist

Job title: Senior Data Scientist

Job description: Company Description

Who is Purpose Financial:

Purpose Financial is an independent financial services company with an unrelenting focus on customer-centric innovation, delivered through technology-driven solutions. Led by entrepreneur Som Seif, the company is developing a diversified product platform aimed at addressing historically underserved segments of the market. Purpose Financial’s businesses include Purpose Investments, Purpose Advisor Solutions, and Thinking Capital.

Who is Thinking Capital:

At Thinking Capital, we’re changing the landscape of financial technology! Simply put, our mission is to empower Canadian small businesses through innovative financial services. At the heart of our offering is our digital experience, which is powered by our proprietary software platform, our real-time connections to a multitude of data sources, and our advanced data science models. We are squarely in the corner of owners and entrepreneurs, providing for them, and at the right moment, the financial support they need to grow and thrive.

Job Description

You have spent countless hours over the years solving hard problems in mathematics, statistics, and computer science. You thrive on extracting useful information from large messy data sets. You know that a data set that satisfies all the requirements of a specific statistical procedure is a rarity indeed – and you know what to do about it. You have followed your passion for all things quantitative and are turning it into your profession.

We value data scientists who can demonstrate personal or business projects that have solved real problems big or small with data sets that you have obtained. You found the right data, scraped it off a website, or used an API to get it. Stored it, munged it, found all the anomalies, and figured out what to do about them. You asked statistical questions of the data, found out that the data did not satisfy the requirements of the methodology you used, and figured out what to do about that. You derived useful information from the data and demonstrated value from the project.

As a key member of our team, your passion for data will help us design, develop and deploy our integrated cloud services that help small businesses succeed.

What you’ll do:

• Application of machine learning to an automated financial services platform.
• Design of sophisticated algorithms that work on large datasets in real-time.
• Tackling sophisticated analytical problems to find business solutions. Implementing the changes to production and evaluating the impact.
• Developing risk strategies to assess the implications of the new projects.
• Support credit risk management by assessing losses by customer profiling.
• Formulating, suggesting, and managing data-driven projects independently which are geared at furthering the business’s interests.
• Selecting and employing advanced statistical procedures to obtain actionable insights.
• Cross-validating models to ensure their generalizability.
• Suggesting ways in which insights obtained might be used to inform business strategies.
• You’ll be transforming data into action by working cross-functionally with stakeholders across Thinking Capital.
• Use your quantitative mindset to direct the implementation of solutions informed through everything ranging from data quality investigations and adjustments to data structures to overall data program management.
• Diagnosing, documenting, and reporting drivers of unexpected changes to portfolio/origination composition and credit performance. Communicating your findings including future impacts to losses and proposed recommendations to Senior Management as required.

Qualifications

You bring strong knowledge and real-world experience:

• A master or graduate degree in statistics or equivalent
• 3+ years of hands-on experience acting as a Data Scientist.
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Statistical methodology (eg linear & logistic regression, time series models, hypothesis testing, etc)
• Python (Pandas), R (tidyverse) and SQL
• Algorithms, data structures, and computational mathematics
• Experience with analytics for large messy data sets
• Obtaining data from websites via scraping, APIs, and third parties
• Proficiency with Linux command-line
• Working autonomously and being highly resourceful

Additional Information

Why you should join us?

• We believe in innovation and vibrant culture – work for an innovative, people-first, financial services firm that values entrepreneurialism
• We believe in a flexible work structure – A flexible hybrid work model that empowers you to do your best work whether at home or at the office
• We care about your rewards – Competitive compensation including equity programs
• We care about your health – comprehensive group health and dental benefits and life insurance, including a Lifestyle Spending Account for all your wellness needs
• We care about your rest – a flexible paid-time-off policy with unlimited vacation days, flexible sick and mental health days
• We care about your family – Paid parental leave for eligible employees with top-up
• We care about your future – Group RRSP matching and TFSA program in Purpose funds
• We care about your development – subsidies are available for courses and tuition

Purpose Financial is an equal employer and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and barrier-free work environment for all employees and candidates. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply and if accommodation is required during any stage of the recruitment process, please contact any member of the Talent team. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently working from home. The safety and wellbeing of our teams is our top priority and office time is currently available on a voluntary basis. Our future work philosophy will be a hybrid model allowing for flexibility and collaboration.

For safety reasons, Purpose Financial has adopted a vaccination policy that allows only fully vaccinated employees to enter our offices.

Company: Thinking Capital

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:32:11 GMT

Job Source: Careerjet.ca

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