Data Specialist

5 days ago

Edmonton, Canada Vantix Systems Inc Full time

**Description**

Our Client is seeking a Data Analytics Specialist / Data Scientist with a diverse range of analytical skills and experience in working in multi-faceted roles. The role may have aspects of any or all the following: data analysis, data science, data modelling, statistical analysis, artificial intelligence (AI) & machine learning (ML), strategizing, advising, data product design and delivery. There may be aspects of data engineering, technical analysis, and business analysis.

Duties: Provides hands-on support, leadership, advice and direction on the strategic data initiatives that are being undertaken as part of a Data Strategy. A critical responsibility is to coordinate with various internal and external clients to understand their analytics needs and how to use the data to best meet these needs. This resource is an expert in anticipating, identifying and responding to diverse and complex data analytic requirements across departments and from external organizations, while also aligning with other areas of branch and broader department. Services and project deliverables should evolve as the work progresses, in response to emerging user and business needs, as well as design and technical opportunities.

**Skills**
- R, Python, SQL, hadoop, Spark, Azure, Snowflake

**Type**
- Contract

**Experience Required/Mandatory Skills**
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field of study equivalencies will be considered.
- Experience and comprehensive skills in using statistical and computer languages, e.g. R, Python, SQL. (6+ years)
- Experience in building analytical and quantitative analysis models. (6+ years)
- Experience with projects that involved data science, data engineering and / or AI. (6+ years)
- Experience in preparing data for prescriptive and predictive modelling. (6+ years)
- Experience in understanding complex businesses questions and framing the right analytical question to solve a business problem. (6+ years)
- Experience with and understanding of different approaches and methods for data analytics and data science (e.g. complex statistical modelling). (6+ years)
- Experience with and understanding of statistical and data mining techniques to address key business issues. (6+ years)

**Nice To Have Skills**
- Experience and knowledge of data sharing, data-linkage, de-identification, metadata, data quality, ethics, synthetic data and data literacy and how to promote use of data. (5+ years)
- Experience combining raw data from a variety of data sources within and across domains. (5+ years)
- Experience dealing with clients and explaining complex data principles in a thoughtful manner. (5+ years)
- Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines, data analytics workflows, or data product workflows. (3+ years)
- Experience preparing visualizations, dashboards, and analytical models. (5+ years)
- Experience understanding and developing requirements for analytical projects. (5+ years)
- Experience utilizing big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark) or cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, Snowflake). (3+ years)
- Experience working with large datasets. (3+ years)

**Location**
- Edmonton/Remote

**Work Environment**
- 1 year with 1 possible 1-year extension

**Hourly Rate**
- Negotiable

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