Senior Manager, Data Scientist

at  TD Bank

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide deep technical leadership and expertise to support and define future direction in one or more specialized areas or lead strategic development efforts on new or emerging data science related projects
• Work closely with business owners to identify opportunities and serve as an ambassador for data science
• Play a lead role on cross functional teams of data scientists, data and IT engineers, and business process owners to build cutting edge analytic solutions
• Design and deliver enterprise analytic solutions to our customers
• Develop powerful business insights from customer behavioural data and signals using advanced machine learning techniques
• Build complex statistical models that learn from and scale to petabytes of data.
• Provide analytical thought leadership and staying current on developments in data exploration and the application of data science
• Provide thought leadership and/or broad industry knowledge across multiple business / functional areas or across the enterprise
• Apply industry / analytical expertise to provide innovative and sound solutions that increase business results and/or minimizes risk
• Identify new analytical trends / data needs and repeatable analytic solutions and works with stakeholders to generate hypothesis and create analytical models that help answer impactful business questions
• Accountable for creating and implementing processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data of various forms either structured or unstructured.
• Employ techniques and theories drawn on many fields within the broad areas of mathematics and statistics
• Be comfortable working through ambiguity and help make informed decisions
• Work in a highly interactive, team-oriented environment with Big Data developers and Visualization experts
• Act as a lead or top technical data scientist and work closely with senior leadership on significant data and analytics projects
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork; ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Develop creative and innovative data driven analytical solutions to optimize operational efficiencies and leverage synergies to support overall business strategies
• Work effectively as a team, supporting other members of the team in achieving business objectives and providing client services
• Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and other business units, including participation in cross-functional groups or committees (e.g., Data Councils)
• Deliver advanced analytical capabilities above and beyond existing methods
• Exceptionally lead and run analytical projects autonomously and create and effectively deliver analytical presentations for executive audiences/stakeholders
• Showcase advance level peer leadership, impact and influence partner, and may mentor / coach peers
• Extensive understanding of the business supported and the overall bank with deep expertise and highly specialized knowledge of analytical concepts and techniques
• Act as a key business partner, guide and collaborate with business leaders to prioritize and identify key business needs and provide impactful analytical insights

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree or technical certificate
• 10+ years relevant experience
• 3+ years managing a team supporting advanced machine learning
• Advanced coding skills (python, pyspark preferred)

Please refer the Job description for details