Data Scientist

At Manulife, data scientists collaborate with engineers, IT, and experts to build analytical models and data architectures for solving business problems within a modern MLOps framework

The Data Scientist is accountable for delivering business value with data by focusing on key corporate objectives, including portfolio optimization, expense efficiency, growth acceleration, digital customer leadership, fraud detection, and high-performance of the team. The Data Scientist is responsible for crafting, building, and deploying business interpretable and performant analytics solutions and applications. Collaborates with data and ML engineers to build scalable self-service tools for the analytics team. The Data Scientist leverages and shares their deep knowledge of, and experience with, a wide variety of data analytics practices and methods. The Data Scientist helps others to improve their knowledge and understanding of the use of data and technology.

Position Responsibilities:

Bridging between data assets, technology, and business expertise

• Collaborate shoulder-to-shoulder with business experts.
• Understand the business, the associated processes, systems & data environment.
• Research, explore, and experiment with data driven business ideas.
• Research & leverage published material to gain a comprehensive understanding of data science practices and methods.

Crafting and building business interpretable and performant analytics solutions

• Develop and implement data analytics enabled solutions to improve and re-imagine business process, to generate insights, and support strategy development.
• Work on problems of diverse scope and complexity requiring the in-depth analysis of data.
• Quickly develop enough business insight to connect data sources across multiple diverse and complex systems.
• Generate relevant, actionable insights based on iterative data analysis, translating data-driven output into business language, and making appropriate recommendations to business partners.
• Work closely with business teams and data science engineers to collaboratively build and deliver rich data content for analysis.
• Deploy rich data and analytics content in business applications.
• Understand how the analysis of data impacts a broader business strategy, including the core drivers of business value.
• Prepare cases on the benefits of the analytics work.

Elevate data and analytics skills in the business

• Help business partners better understand the use of data, drawing on a detailed understanding of data analytics and predictive modeling.
• Identify and guide natural data champions to improve the profitable use of data.
• Learn salient business concepts from data champions and enable them to creatively use data assets.

Required Qualifications:

• Masters or equivalent experience in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or related field)
• Knowledge and expertise with SQL with Oracle, MySQL, and Relational Databases
• Skilled with Python or similar languages
• 2+ years of experience working in data science in a consumer product company collaborating with Machine Learning Scientists, Data Scientists, Research Scientists, Applied Scientists, or similar roles. Can relax this requirement for PhD or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a quantitative field (such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics AI, Statistics, engineering, or equivalent)
• Practical experience in several of the following areas: machine learning, NLP, statistics, experimental design, deep learning, recommendation systems
• Knowledge and experience in network and graph based analytics techniques including graph databases
• Functional knowledge of Azure Cloud Platform such as Azure ML and Data Factory
• Ability to distill informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, ability to convey detailed mathematical concepts and considerations to non-experts
• Passionate about working in a diverse group and contributing to an inclusive culture

When you join our team:

• We'll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• We'll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our global team, we'll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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About Manulife and John Hancock

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Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

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Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.