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Senior AI Data Scientist
Location
Canada
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$70K - $120K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior AI Data Scientist
Valtech
• The Senior AI Data Scientist is a senior individual contributor role within Data Science, AI, & Agentic. This role is responsible for leading complex analytical, predictive, and applied AI workstreams, operating with a high degree of independence and serving as a trusted advisor on data science and AI strategy. • This role focuses on shaping and executing advanced modeling, experimentation, and applied AI solutions that address high-value business problems. The Senior AI Data Scientist translates ambiguous stakeholder needs into structured analytical approaches, model designs, evaluation frameworks, and actionable insights. They partner closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure that analytical and AI-driven solutions are both technically sound and practically impactful. • At this level, the role combines strong quantitative expertise with deep modeling capability, rigorous experimentation practices, and thoughtful application of AI methods. The Senior AI Data Scientist influences analytical direction, improves delivery quality through best practices and reusable approaches, and elevates the overall effectiveness of data science workstreams across engagements.
Job Requirements
- Please note, we are only accepting applicants from the provinces of Ontario and Québec for this role.
- For Québec-based candidates, fluency in English is necessary because the position entails collaboration with teams based in the rest of Americas and occasionally in Europe.
- Lead complex analytical, statistical, machine learning, and applied AI workstreams across multiple business areas, use cases, or stakeholder groups.
- Define data science approaches that align business questions, modeling opportunities, evaluation methods, and measurable outcomes.
- Translate ambiguous business and stakeholder needs into structured analytical strategies, model designs, hypotheses, feature approaches, validation plans, and actionable recommendations.
- Lead the design and execution of models and analyses across use cases such as segmentation, forecasting, propensity modeling, anomaly detection, experimentation analysis, recommendation-oriented analysis, and business decision support.
- Guide the use of structured, semi-structured, and selected unstructured datasets to derive insights and build business-relevant solutions.
- Own and improve notebook-based development, reproducible workflows, and analytical assets in Databricks and other cloud-based environments.
- Apply machine learning and AI methods to support classification, scoring, summarization, pattern detection, feature generation, and business process improvement use cases.
- Establish and reinforce best practices for methodology selection, model evaluation, experimentation design, documentation quality, and reproducibility.
- Synthesize modeling outputs, analytical findings, and applied AI results into clear business implications and recommended next steps.
- Collaborate with AI Scientists, AI Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Data Engineers, and Architects to align solutions with business needs, data realities, platform constraints, and technical patterns.
- Mentor junior and mid-level practitioners through technical guidance, quality review, and best-practice sharing, without formal people-management responsibility.
Benefits
- A comprehensive insurance plan, where you can choose the module that best suits your needs—Gold, Silver, or Bronze. The employer may contribute up to 80% of your coverage depending on the selected module. This plan includes short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Dialogue via Sun Life provides virtual healthcare services, allowing you to consult with a healthcare professional for emergencies, prescription renewals, and more. You also have access to the Employee and Family Assistance Program, as well as a complete mental health support program.
- A $500 Personal Spending Account, which can be used for healthcare reimbursements, gym memberships, public transit passes, office supplies, or contributions to your RRSP through Valtech.
- A retirement plan where Valtech will match 100% of your RRSP contributions through a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), up to a maximum of 4%. You can start contributing to your RRSP immediately, and to the DPSP after 3 months. The vesting of the DPSP will be after a 24 months of service.
- Access to a flexible vacation under Valtech's policy to support your work-life balance, with 5 days available during your probation period and a prorated amount calculated for the remainder of the year.
- Personal Technology Reimbursement – $30/month for every employee offered on day 1.
- We close during the winter holidays and offer flexible scheduling throughout the year, so you can enjoy those sunny Friday afternoons—provided your weekly hours are completed.
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