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Salary: $85,008–$108,866 a year – Full-time
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and stakeholders. Learn more about working for WCB at Careers – WCB Alberta
At WCB-Alberta, we make a meaningful impact in the lives of working Albertans. We are a not-for-profit organization legislated to administer the workers’ compensation system for the province. When any Alberta worker is hurt on the job, we are here to help. We provide compensation and benefits for workplace injuries and occupational diseases to over 1.7 million workers. Every day, we work hard to make a positive difference in the lives of our customers. At WCB-Alberta, you too can make a difference.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with various business units with a focus on designing actionable solutions using predictive analytics, clustering algorithms, information retrieval system, recommender system, natural language processing, etc.
- Work collaboratively and effectively in cross-functional teams. With enhanced team cohesion, increase internal adoption of test design, statistical measurement, and advanced analytics methodologies.
- Stay on track to project timelines, scope, and other commitments to prove yourself and your team as a reliable business partner.
- Establish, maintain, and adhere to processes and standards for model development and deployment at the WCB.
- Build processes for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from a wide variety of data sources maintain the data pipeline processes to manage the flow of data from source to the analytic models and the flow of model outcomes to target destinations.
- Develop data models and capture metadata associated with model solutions.
- Establish and maintain a model deployment platform, working in partnership with Information Management.
- Define, implement, and manage monitoring processes for production models, including visualization solutions.
- Monitor the expected and actual business benefits of production models and coordinate activities to address any issues that arise.
- Act as the liaison between the business and the Data Science team to track application/data changes and potential impacts to production models.
- Establish model development standards and governance for the Machine Learning Team
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior Data Scientists
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Qualifications:
- Education
- Master’s Degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Actuarial Science, Economics or Engineering.
- A Bachelor’s Degree with relevant experience will also be considered.
- Tools and Technologies
- At least 2 years of experience in SQL and Python, working in cloud environments – Databricks preferred.
- Data Science Experience
- At least 2 years of experience in analytical roles working with large data sets and analytic tools, and some subset of the following: scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch. Good understanding of Natural Language Processing and/or Computer Vision. Experience in software engineering is an asset
- Experience with data preparation techniques such as cleansing, wrangling, and feature engineering for machine learning and data mining.
- Knowledge of statistical methods such as linear regression, tree-based regression/classification, time series analysis, clustering and factor analysis.
- Data Pipeline and Acquisition
- Experience with process modeling, data modeling, governance/process documentation and the tools used to model these concepts.
- Experience with ETL processes and tools (e.g. DataStage, SSIS, Attunity).
- Soft skills
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, visualization, and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple business terms while working closely with end-users and executives.
- Essentials for this role: Critical thinking, problem-solving, storytelling skills, dedicated, multi-tasking and working in a fast-paced environment, and strong detail orientation.
- An ideal team player and self-starter – this role is a hybrid location, meaning you will work effectively remotely but can meet your team and business clients as needed in-person in an office environment to collaborate for maximum speed-of-delivery and effectiveness.
- Nice to Have
- Working knowledge of experimental and observational research design is an asset.
- Project management experience is an asset.
- Familiarity with public sources of socioeconomic data is an asset.
- Working knowledge of rehabilitative medicine, health care and/or economics is an asset.
We offer competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, flexible work schedules and hybrid work opportunities that foster a healthy work-life balance, supportive leadership, and a caring and collaborative work environment. For more information, please see our Employee Handbook on our website.
Salary: Grade 12 $85,008 to $108,866 per annum (includes Market Supplement)
Note: Final candidates for this position will be asked to undergo a security clearance.
We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, colour, religion or national origin, gender (or gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability. Equal opportunity is provided in employment, promotions and wages.
Please apply online by submitting a cover letter and resume. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only candidates under consideration will be contacted.
Job Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Closing Date : February 12, 2023
HOW TO APPLY
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