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| Location: | London, ON |
| Date Posted: | Oct 27, 2020 |
Job Description
CARFAX Canada has the most comprehensive vehicle data gathered from hundreds of data sources. This is your playground! Do you live and breathe data? Do you have a need to understand every aspect of data and what it means? If so, consider applying to this role!
About Us
Every day, Canadians rely on our insights to make one of the biggest decisions of their lives. As the country’s #1 provider of automotive history and valuation insights, we’re always innovating to make buying and selling used vehicles easier for all Canadians.
Working Here
At CARFAX Canada, you’re not just another employee. You’re a critical contributor to the big picture and rely on data when making important decisions. You have a future mindset and are motivated to grow with us. You have a thirst for learning new things and building your skillset. You dream big and chart your own career path. You don’t settle for what’s quick and easy because you value quality. You know that the best teams are built on trust, so you use your voice to collaborate and create real change. You believe in taking the time to celebrate wins and have fun. You know leading a balanced lifestyle in a supportive work environment is important. You’re not just another employee. You are a CARFAX Canadian!
Job Details
CARFAX Canada is seeking a full-time Statistician, Predictive Analytics to join the Product Management team.
Reporting to a Director of Product Management, the Statistician, Predictive Analytics will be responsible to apply the latest predictive modeling techniques to build, maintain and enhance the next-gen technologies that will power the future of CARFAX Canada’s products! This role will work closely with the Data Management team to understand all existing and potential data sources, as well as develop and maintain quality control procedures to ensure models function accurately on an on-going basis.
Position Responsibilities
What you will do:
- Work with Data Management to understand all existing and potential data sources, its ability to use in predictive models, and the value of acquiring new data
- Conduct R&D work to develop new predictive models that can be deployed with CARFAX Canada products
- Build, maintain and enhance modeling code base by adding new features and data, and incorporating new predictive modeling techniques
- Develop and maintain quality control procedures to ensure models function accurately on an on-going basis
- Collaborate effectively with members of the Product team and US based statisticians to ensure predictive models are aligned with product roadmap
- Work with internal stakeholders to understand operational data sources and build product-focused dashboards
Education and Experience Required:
- 3+ years of industry experience building predictive models on large data sets and visualizing results using R
- Experience with a broad range of supervised and unsupervised statistical learning techniques
- Experience using SQL to query large relational databases (MS SQL)
- Strong data preparation and cleansing skills
- Excellent communication skills - should be able to communicate technical concepts in a clear and concise manner to various business stakeholders
- Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn and apply new modeling techniques
- Pragmatic approach to solving problems - achieves goals by making incremental improvements and tracking progress over time
Nice to have, but not required:
- MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, or related field
- Experience with basic NLP techniques and text data mining
- Experience with working with data using Spark
- Experience with Git
- Experience creating models that are used in Products
- Experience in PowerBI and Azure
CARFAX Canada’s core values are: Integrity, Objective, Customer Advocate, Solutions-Oriented and Transparent. The successful candidate will share these values.
Compensation includes base salary commensurate with experience, performance bonuses, health/dental benefits and an optional RRSP match program.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please visit our website. https://www.carfax.ca/about-carfax/work-at-carfax. Applications will be accepted until November 6, 2020.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
CARFAX Canada is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require an accommodation during the application or selection processes, please advise in your cover letter.