Senior Data Scientist

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We recognize that the construction industry is changing at a rapid pace and we continually strive to be at the forefront. Our core
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You As a Senior Data Scientist Will

• Coordinate with different functional teams to conceptualize and implement AI/ML models and monitor outcomes.
• Use machine learning techniques to forecast costs for improved long-term and short-term construction planning.
• Solve analytical problems and effectively communicate methodologies and results.
• Build predictive models to forecast risks during all stages of the construction lifecycle.
• Draw inferences and conclusions, and create dashboards and visualizations of processed data, identify trends, anomalies.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders such as business teams, engineering teams, and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus area.
• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies.
• Actively work with third-party partnerships to identify machine learning opportunities to automate and diversify Ellis Don's core competency in-house.
• Communicate and explain complex algorithm and its outputs to business stakeholders in a succinct and coherent manner.
• Assist data engineers and establish best practices for building machine learning pipelines and shipping predictive models to production.
• Assist with the creation of informative visualizations that intuitively displays large amounts of data and/or complex relationships.

Is this the right role for you?

• 2-4 years of relevant work experience as a Data Scientist.
• Graduate or post-graduate university degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics, Engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches.
• Comfort manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high dimensionality data from varying sources.
• Experience with very large datasets. Familiarity with relational, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
• Expert knowledge of statistical analysis tools such as R, Matlab, Python or equivalent. Fluency with scripting languages such as Python or other.
• Familiarity with basic statistical applications and machine learning algorithms (eg. linear/logistic regression, SVM, gradient boosting trees, supervised/unsupervised learning, deep learning).

EllisDon is proud to provide this unique career opportunity that provides continuous learning, opportunity for growth, and a competitive compensation package within an environment that is committed to inclusion and respects diversity.

Go ahead and be yourself. We'll pay you for it
We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of any age, culture, subculture, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, race, size, mental or physical status, veteran status, religion, language, political opinion, working-style preference, family status, education, and socio-economic status. The EllisDon core values of
Integrity and Mutual Respect
welcomes
everyone
, at work and in the community, and our value of
Mutual Accountability,
means that we all have a role to play. As an EllisDon employee, this will ultimately be
your
commitment to Inclusive Diversity.

Accommodation for Applicants with disabilities will be made during the recruitment process when requested.

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