# Data Scientist

**Company**: Aviva Canada
**Location**: Toronto
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $100,000 to $120,000
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Join a team of data scientists and engineers using advanced analytics and machine learning to solve real business challenges. As part of the Commercial Auto Data Science team, you'll build models and data-driven solutions that improve customer experiences, support business decisions, and drive innovation across the organization.

As a Data Scientist, you'll contribute to the full model lifecycle, from ideation and development through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. You'll work on high-impact initiatives such as claims prediction, customer journey optimization, pricing insights, and automation, partnering closely with business and technology teams.

**Responsibilities:**

- Transformation of sophisticated datasets into meaningful conclusions & recommendations.

- Develop innovative solutions for pattern recognition using machine learning and statistical approaches.

- Partner closely with Pricing and work on the data science projects end-to-end for Commercial Auto Pricing, from project planning through data processing, model training, model acceptance, and post-implementation monitoring.

- Contribute to modelling best practices and improve the quality and reproducibility of the team's work.

- Maintenance of a growing set of data mining tools, frameworks & approaches.

- Communicate practical recommendations based on insights/model results.

- Support model monitoring and validation, including identifying performance deterioration, portfolio shifts, and emerging segment behavior.

**Requirements:**

- An educational background in computer science or engineering, math, statistics, physics or a related field. A minimum of an MSc is required, and PhD is preferred.

- 3+ years of experience with model development and working with large datasets.

- 3+ programming experience in Python with a good grasp of software engineering standard methodologies.

**Nice to Have:**

- Experience with Snowflake.

- A growth mindset with versatile skills and ability to work through problems from first principles.

- A portfolio of projects that demonstrate your ability to draw inferences from data.

- Outstanding communication skills and ability to translate and communicate complex algorithms to non-technical individuals.

**What you'll get:**

- The salary band for this position ranges from $100,000 to $120,000.

- Compelling rewards package including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.

- Hybrid flexible work model.

- Outstanding career development opportunities.

- Professional development education.

- Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year.

- Employee-driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity, and inclusion.

- Corporate wellness programs to support our employees' physical and mental health.

- Employee discount on home and auto insurance.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- machine learning
- statistical approaches
- data mining
- software engineering

### Nice to have
- Snowflake

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