Data Scientist

Data Scientist - Contract position in Richmond (Hybrid):
On behalf of our client in Richmond, Ignite Technical Resources is looking for a Data Scientist with our client for a contract opportunity.

**Role Description**:
** **responsible:

- To further the knowledge base of company with exploratory and iterative data science programs.
- To solve extraordinarily complex business problems by providing solutions, using advanced data analysis techniques.
- To explore and extract value from internal and external data sets in support of prioritized high-value opportunities for our company.
- To identify and refine further high value ideas and hypotheses for next iterations of learning, to continuously strengthen data science in the company.

**Responsibilities**:

- Explore and extract maximum value out of company data and its wider internal and external systems, including both existing and potential sources of company. This will span systems relating to customer and financial management, supply chain and production data.
- Contribute to knowledge base of company Data and Data Science, Hub-based company’s Target Architecture and other relevant knowledge bases.
- Developing and implement appropriate data science models, and controls that are transferrable and usable by other data science team members and are therefore well documented and shared.
- Comply with up-to-date data security, privacy (GDPR) and information data governance rules.
- Check all models and recommendations against common sense and ethics standards, to avoid inherent bias and discrimination, and flag warnings and caveats as needed.
- Time-box exploration of topics to test and learn quickly and move on to next hypothesis if progress is slowed, keep to deadlines and flag challenges early.
- Produce regular progress reports, explaining progress in clear, concise, and illustrated manner, ready for internal sharing and reporting.
- Provide cleaned data to help create new or help amended processes, tools and data science services.
- Engage with up-to-daters to ensure their buy-in of changes that are being proposed and they understand how to use and monitor new tools, reports and processes.
- Engage with 3rd parties in a manner that complies with all internal policies, collaborating and driving commercial success of all 3rd party engagements.
- Spend an agreed amount of time staying abreast of new data science trends, benchmarking reports, conferences and explore these for the benefit of company’s value generation.
- Maintaining the relevant Data Science sections on SharePoint.

**Requirements**:

- Educated to degree in a numerate discipline or equivalent.
- Extensive experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.
- Experience in usage of relevant software packages such as Amazon Sage Maker, TensorFlow, Spark, Microsoft Azure and equivalent.
- Working knowledge of data science languages such as SQL, PowerShell, R and/or Python.
- Ability to use advance analytical techniques in a sensible pragmatic way and understand their limitations and future potential, keeping up to date with current developments.
- Ability to develop accurate models from first principles and be able to sense-check outputs (common sense).
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Strong oral and written communication skills in MS Office.
- Knowledge of processes from an operational department.
- In addition to technical and analytical ability, you need to demonstrate capability in dealing with a wide variety of types of people and ad-hoc projects.
- You need to act with quality in mind with the drive to push forward projects to completion.
- Taking accountability for areas covered by the Data Science team, monitoring performance, clearly communicating issues, developing and recommending changes where appropriate.
- Ensuring that strong links are maintained between the company’s matrix teams and Data and Data Science Directorate.
- Needs to be assertive, and emotionally intelligent, to deal with any potentially conflicting internal agendas.

**Our Values**:

- Honest - Simple, secure, set of services and solutions that make life simple for everyone.
- Energized - Delivered at speed, with empowered, talented people that are not afraid to seek forgiveness.
- Achieve - World class digital solutions that generate measurable value for colleagues, customers, and shareholders.
- Together - Using our group wide diversity and skills to work together, disrupt and win.

Based in Vancouver and proudly Canadian, Ignite Technical Resources has been providing Top Technical Talent to organizations across Canada since 2005.

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