Equitable Life of Canada

Equitable Life is a small mutual life insurance company (~700 people) based in Waterloo, Ontario. We're hiring our first data scientist to help found the data science team. As of right now, the team consists of my manager and myself (data/ml engineer). This data scientist role is a foundational one; you'll need to help define our methodology, tooling and data strategy. The data scientist will act as an internal consultant within the organization and will help various teams optimize their processes through the application of predictive models. This is a great opportunity for someone with a couple years of experience under their belt. We are primarily a Windows shop with all infrastructure managed on-premise and most development is waterfall. However, the company is actively working towards being cloud-friendly (Azure) and rethinking its development processes (eg. embracing devops tech, agile). As this is a foundational role, we're looking for someone with either a masters or PhD in a quantitative discipline and a minimum of a couple years of experience in developing predictive models (preference for supervised learning).