Sr Analytics Developer, Fraud

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Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We're the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 billion in assets.
Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.
The Fraud Data Science & Engineering team consists of data scientists and analytics developers that are responsible for delivering state-of-the-art data infrastructure and predictive modelling solutions to support data-driven risk management at Wealthsimple. We're a highly collaborative group, with seasoned data experts and well supported by product managers, software developers, and risk strategists.
We are hiring for a Senior Analytics Developer for the Fraud DSE team. You will be responsible for building robust, efficient and integrated data models that enable our fraud analytics and machine learning. These core data models will serve as the foundation of our fraud strategy, allowing the team to monitor and detect fraud trends, build machine learning models, and launch new fraud defenses. A successful Sr Analytics Developer is able to blend business acumen and software engineering best practices while effectively communicating with stakeholders.  In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Build data models in the cloud data warehouse that will be used as the source of truth for analytics and predictive modelling.
• Apply software engineering best practices like version control and continuous integration to the analytics code base.
• Ideate and implement new machine learning model features by contributing to the internal Feature Store.
• Translate business requirements into data models that will help stakeholders answer key business questions.
• Support end-to-end development of reports/dashboards/tools used by your direct stakeholders and a diverse set of teams across the company.
• Ensure data models are well tested, documented and maintained.
• Believe that simple is better, Occam's razor is your friend.
• Take ownership and ship it.
• You release incrementally and iteratively.
• Get the best out of the team by leveraging their diverse experience.
• Teach and learn from your teammates. We value making others successful and learning from each other.

Requirements:

• Strong technical skills in manipulating large data sets with complex SQL and Python.
• Expertise in data visualization.
• Experience with cloud data warehousing (e.g. Snowflake,Bigquery,Redshift).
• Excellent communication skills, and the proven ability to translate business requirements into data models and maintain clear documentation.
• Comfortable with software engineering best practices such as unit testing and version control.
• Experience with machine learning feature engineering.
• Results-driven: keeping things as simple as possible to achieve the product goals.
• Curiosity: willing to dive deep into product strategies and business context.
• Able to build and maintain multi-functional relationships with various teams across the business.
• Experience working in the risk management domain is a plus.
• Experience with dbt is a plus

Why Wealthsimple? Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively  90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year  A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS) Allocated number of Wellness Days that can be scheduled over the course of the year
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Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We're looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.
DEI Statement At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. 
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