Data Scientist

BC Assessment is currently looking for two permanent Data Scientists to join our Quality Reporting & Analytics team
- Bring your knowledge and ability to quickly understand and conceptualize analytical requirements and your experience working with large volumes of data, building statistical and algorithmic models, as well as solving analytical problems using qualitative and quantitative approaches to this exciting role with BC Assessment_

Organization Overview

BC Assessment is a Provincial Crown Corporation that develops and maintains real property assessments throughout British Columbia in addition to providing real property information. BC Assessment serves the citizens of British Columbia and has 13 offices throughout the province.

At BC Assessment, our people and culture are important to us. We work together to create a culture that appreciates differences in all forms. We trust and respect each other, and are invited to bring our whole selves to work. We are committed to making BC Assessment the best possible place to work, and through our efforts ultimately contribute to a better British Columbia. Our digitally agile, service-centric employees are productive, engaged, and work collaboratively in a modern flexible workplace. Our employees are at the heart of our organization and we are proud to be recognized as one of

BC’s Top Employers

for the tenth year

At BC Assessment, we offer competitive

benefits

for our employees:
- Work-life balance - 35-hour work weeks, hybrid work options and flexible work schedules.- Public Service Pension Plan - one of the best in Canada, allowing you to plan for your future.- Health and Wellness - generous extended health and dental benefits through Pacific Blue Cross and an Employee Assistance Program to help support our employees overall well-being.- We offer a reduced-cost bus pass through the BC Transit ProPASS program and our Uptown office has a secure bike storage and secure change rooms with lockers.- Career development - we want you to grow and learn with us We provide ongoing learning, leadership development and career development scholarship program.

We are committed to ensuring that reasonable accommodations are made available to persons with disabilities during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes and will provide reasonable accommodations upon request. If you require assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please

contact us.

Job Overview

Reporting to the Manager, Quality Reporting and Analytics, the Data Scientist advises senior leaders and influences strategic direction by providing advanced analytical services across all levels of BC Assessment in support of corporate initiatives and programs.

The role is critical to the success of the corporate-wide analytics program, with areas of specialization including: mass appraisal (various property types); data extraction, cleaning, modelling, and visualization; statistical analysis; and machine learning.- Learn, maintain, and improve existing analytical models.- Learn, maintain and enhance existing advanced analytical tools that support the creation of the Assessment Roll.- Develop new advanced analytic tools to improve the efficiency and quality of mass appraisal processes.- Execute advanced analytics using assessment data to improve the quality and efficiency of processes.

Key Accountabilities-
- Collaborate and work closely with multi-level/cross-functional business experts to identify and resolve complex analytical problems to determine optimal business strategies and improve the quality of organization-wide information.- Independently use knowledge of predictive analytics theory to lead complex analytics initiatives to identify valuable and innovative insights that span all levels of the organization. Value is measured by cost/time savings; improved data quality; business process improvement; or improved service delivery.- Use deep knowledge of analytics and property assessment to lead and influence the valuation research, development and implementation of multiple regression analysis (MRA) initiatives that provide property valuation direction across the organization.- Reviews and collaborates on research projects conducted by external professionals and project teams.- Research, develop and document corporate wide standards for use, control, and maintenance of future enterprise-wide analytics, dash boarding, forecasting, and visualization methods- Translate complex datasets into strategic insights for the business and communicate simply to nontechnical key decision makers, visualizing results, to create understanding and solution buy-in at all levels of the organization.- Provide insight into leading analytic practices, design and lead iterative learning and development cycles, and ultimately produce new and creative analytic solutions that will become part of our core business.- Provide expertise and mentoring on mathematical and analytic concepts for the broader