Expert Data Science

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At CN, we work together to move our company—and North America—forward. Be part of our Information & Technology (I&T) team, a critical piece of the engine that keeps us in motion. From enterprise architecture to operational technology, our teams use the agile methodology to automate and digitize our railroad ensuring our operations run optimally and safely and our employees can focus on value-added tasks. You will be able to develop your skills and career in our close-knit, safety-focused culture working together as ONE TEAM. The careers we offer are meaningful because the work we do matters. Join us!

Job Summary

You will be part of a team that spans across all business domains. You will provide advanced analytical insights using data analysis and machine learning techniques. You will collaborate with teams across the company, exploring various data sources to help identify new opportunities while driving the adoption of AI. As an expert data scientist, you will combine your knowledge of machine learning and software development skills to automate model development, training, and deployment. You will leverage your experience in building reusable algorithms, functions, and libraries to use in model development for predictive and prescriptive analytics.

Story telling is critical to the change management practice of putting the model into real live environment. Success will be dependent on hypothesis generation, exploration of data, using AI to discover insights, to developing automation pipelines and visual – analytics all being explained to our stakeholder’s community.

The Data & Analytics team is helping CN to create a data-driven culture where everyone can make better decisions, grounded in trusted data, and augmented by the power and scale of analytics. Using advanced data platforms, and AI tooling, decisions can happen at just the right moment, impacting the environment, safety and operational excellence for our customers and team members, while always keeping an eye on the future, ready to explore...

We are highly innovative, and passionate, we believe anything is possible, by embracing people culture, using the right technology, and having an agile mindset, we will drive the highest value to customers…

Interested in working with a team of data innovators, and being part of a culture of transformation, creativity, and teamwork? If so, we would love to connect with you!

Main Responsibilities

• Work with structured and unstructured raw data to design and develop innovative predictive models, metrics, and dashboards to uncover actionable insights
• Visualize and report data findings creatively in a variety of visual formats that provide insights to the organization
• Influence how we approach business challenges and opportunities by driving the adoption of a data driven mindset
• Support and evolve the Advanced Analytics and Data Science roadmap by leveraging industry research, best practices, and emerging tools/technology
• Collaborate on end-to-end automation efforts required to bring models to production
• Build and maintain a strong engagement with key stakeholders to understand business needs and priorities
  

Requirements

• Experience in the application of data mining and analysis, predictive modeling, statistics, and other advanced analytical techniques with hands-on work experience
• 7-8 or more years of hands-on work and practical business experience in Machine Learning and AI, including classification, clustering, time series analysis, NLP, demand forecasting and optimization
• Excellent communication skills and capable of breaking down technical and complex concepts in a way that is understood by non-technical audiences
  

Education/Certification/Designation

• Masters or PhD degree in a quantitative field such as Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, or Data Science
  

Technical Skills/Knowledge

• Solid development experience with Python and comfortable using various data science libraries such as Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy as well as frameworks like TensorFlow, Pytorch, Keras and have applied these skills towards solving actual business matters
• Comfortable working in and with a Jupyter like environment and infrastructure, and familiar with GitHub, Data bricks
• Have advanced knowledge in SQL and Apache Spark
• Expert level experience with at least one of the cloud computing platforms – Azure, AWS, GCP
• Familiar with Tableau and/or Power BI visual analytics purposes
• Well versed in software and AI development lifecycles, including ML Ops
• Have agile experience and have a bias for action, removing blocks to get results fast
  

Assets

• Experience with SAFe agile methodology and work in a fast-paced environment
• Having Azure or other cloud certifications, For example Azure Data Lake, Data Bricks
  

About CN

As a leading North American transportation and logistics company, CN is a true backbone of the economy. With a team of approximately 25,000 railroaders, our focus is on moving both our company and the economy forward. We transport US$200 billion worth of goods annually for a wide range of business sectors from resource to manufactured products to consumer goods, across a 20,000-mile network spanning Canada and mid-America. CN is the only Canadian company listed in the Transportation and Transportation Infrastructure sector of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI). Launched in 1999, the DJSI World represents the gold standard for corporate sustainability. At CN, we work as ONE TEAM, focused on safety, sustainability, and our customers, providing operational and supply chain excellence to deliver results.

CN is an employment equity employer and we encourage all qualified candidates to apply. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only candidates under consideration will be contacted. Please monitor your email on a regular basis, as communication is primarily made through email.