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Senior Data Scientist – Global Security

Senior Data Scientist – Global Security

CompanyRoyal Bank of Canada
LocationToronto, ON, Canada
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s, PhD
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • At least an undergraduate degree (PhD. or Masters preferred) in a quantitative field (Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Sociology, Psychology etc.)
  • Advanced programming skills (python, pyspark) and experience in developing machine learning models using supervised and unsupervised approaches; experience with data preprocessing, feature and representation learning, anomaly/outlier detection
  • Strong data sense, critical thinking, and technical documentation skills
  • A passion for simplifying and automating work, making things better, continuous learning, solving open-ended problems, improving efficiency, and helping others
  • Strong communication skills with ability to work cross-functionally to articulate, measure and solve issues

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and build solutions using advanced machine learning methods in the domains of fraud, cybersecurity, and data privacy
  • Design and implement end-to-end data pipelines: from data cleaning to model development to writing production level code
  • Implement supervised and unsupervised machine learning models, data mining methods, statistical analysis, and pipelines to prepare and integrate various data types and sources
  • Quickly learn new methods, big data tools and technologies presented in research communities to implement and adapt within our data products and models
  • Collaborate proactively with various business and operation units to design innovative solutions to optimize processes and deploy production-scale solutions
  • Work on challenging and research-based initiatives using advanced machine learning methods focusing on tangible outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous experience in cybersecurity/fraud domains
  • Experience with MLOps to build end-to-end pipeline and deploying models in production
  • Experience with graph analytics