Sr. Data Scientist, Strategic Analytics (Home Based Toronto)

About this role

With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.


Position Summary
The ideal Senior Data Scientist delivers production-quality solutions for insurance business problems using foundation models and data science fundamentals. They take initiative, own their work from problem definition through deployment, and proactively communicate progress, blockers, and considerations with the team and leadership. They excel at systems thinking-decomposing complex problems, designing measurement frameworks, and optimizing across multiple dimensions. They work in Azure/Databricks using Python with git version control and produce maintainable code with strong documentation.


Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and technical product owners to create technical solutions
• Deliver production solutions for data extraction, classification, routing, search, and decision-making using foundation models
• Manipulate and analyze data programmatically, derive statistically sound insights, and communicate findings that address technical and business considerations
• Engineer and evaluate foundation model prompts systematically across domain datasets
• Design comprehensive evaluation frameworks using precision, recall, F-1 scores, accuracy, and operational metrics
• Own documentation and mentor junior team members through systematic problem-solving approaches
• Decompose complex problems into measurable components, optimize across multiple dimensions, and articulate trade-offs

Required Skills And Abilities

• Strong Python proficiency from a functional programming paradigm, including dependency management, virtual environments, and git version control following git flow practices
• Pro...