Velocity - Data Scientist Internship/Co-Op - Winter 2026 at Scotiabank
Toronto, ON, Canada -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

29 Sep, 25

Salary

0.0

Posted On

03 Sep, 25

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Secondary Education, Machine Learning, Python, Relational Databases, Extracurricular Activities, Json, Conferences, Code Review, Kubernetes, Xml, Shell Scripting, Flat Files, Experimental Design

Industry

Information Technology/IT

Description

Requisition ID: 234796
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Velocity - Data Scientist Internship/Co-Op – Winter 2026
Term: January 2026 – April 2026
Work Hours/Week: 37.5
Application Deadline: 9/29/25

You are currently enrolled in post-secondary education.

  • You love to learn and envision yourself working for an international organization that heavily invests in your future.
  • You enjoy being involved in extracurricular activities such as conferences, clubs, and hackathons.
  • You have knowledge/experience in:
  • Cleaning, transforming, and visualizing large data sets working with various data formats (e.g., unstructured logs, XML, JSON, flat files)
  • Big Data/Cloud ecosystem (e.g., GCP)
  • Experimental design, statistical analysis, machine learning
  • Python programming
  • Common machine learning libraries in Python, PySpark (scikit-learn, xgboost)
  • UNIX tools and shell scripting
  • SQL skills for querying relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, DB2, MySQL)
  • Visualization tools like PowerBI
  • Kubernetes
  • Git Workflows (Pull Request, Code Review, Branching)
  • This internship requires you to work 37.5 hours a week

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Responsibilities

DO YOU HAVE THE SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS THAT WILL ENABLE YOU TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE? – WE’D LOVE TO WORK WITH YOU IF:

  • You are currently enrolled in post-secondary education.

  • You love to learn and envision yourself working for an international organization that heavily invests in your future.

  • You enjoy being involved in extracurricular activities such as conferences, clubs, and hackathons.
  • You have knowledge/experience in:
  • Cleaning, transforming, and visualizing large data sets working with various data formats (e.g., unstructured logs, XML, JSON, flat files)
  • Big Data/Cloud ecosystem (e.g., GCP)
  • Experimental design, statistical analysis, machine learning
  • Python programming
  • Common machine learning libraries in Python, PySpark (scikit-learn, xgboost)
  • UNIX tools and shell scripting
  • SQL skills for querying relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, DB2, MySQL)
  • Visualization tools like PowerBI
  • Kubernetes
  • Git Workflows (Pull Request, Code Review, Branching)
  • This internship requires you to work 37.5 hours a week.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

  • Collaborate with business lines and other stakeholders and identify opportunities to drive business value by leveraging data science solutions
  • Leverage distributed computing tools (e.g., Spark, Cloud) for analysis, data mining, and modeling
  • Collaborate with data engineering, software developer, and other analytics teams to build analytical dataset and model
  • Create and apply model and algorithm testing strategies to measure, conduct testing to measure the effectiveness of models, and make ongoing changes
  • Prepare detailed documentation to outline data sources, models, and algorithms used and developed
  • Present results to business line stakeholders and help implement real data-driven changes
  • Work on challenging and research-based initiatives using advanced machine learning methods focusing on data-driven outcomes
  • Experiment & learn
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