Senior Data Scientist, Appnovation
Digital consultancy
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Digital consultancy
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To advance clients businesses by innovating everything digital.
Role
Who you are
- Experience & Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering with 8–12 years of relevant experience leading complex technical projects with multi-team impact
- Advanced ML & Statistics: Expert capability in designing end-to-end ML systems for complex problems (including imbalanced data and concept drift), applying advanced statistical methods (mixed models, survival analysis, Bayesian approaches), and demonstrating a deep understanding of causal inference techniques, experimentation design (A/B testing, MABs), and deep learning architectures for unstructured data (e.g., NLP, Computer Vision)
- Core Technology Stack: Expertise in Python (including libraries like Pandas and NumPy) or R, proficiency with cloud platforms and their data/ML services (e.g., AWS Sagemaker, GCP Vertex AI, Azure ML Services), experience with big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop), and familiarity with MLOps tools (e.g., Kubeflow, MLflow, Docker)
- Business Immersion: Proven ability to immerse in operations to acquire deep domain expertise, thinking like an insider to translate seamlessly between business needs and engineering solutions
- Full-Stack Agility: Ability to build complete applications rapidly across any technology stack, selecting the right tools to balance technical debt with delivery speed
- Data Strategy & Integration: Experience architecting scalable data strategies across diverse teams and complex enterprise landscapes. This includes defining data governance policies, mastering data quality frameworks, building robust integration solutions for undocumented schemas and disparate systems, and driving the adoption of modern data warehousing and lakehouse architectures
- AI Evaluation & Governance: Experience leading AI governance initiatives, creating evaluation standards, and training teams on rigorous AI verification and risk management
- Rapid Prototyping: Proficiency in leading rapid delivery initiatives using a prototype-first approach to validate solutions quickly before scaling
- Problem Discovery: A track record of seeking out undefined problems, embedding with users to discover latent needs, and turning ambiguity into clear problem statements
- Polymath Oriented: You bridge gaps between engineering, design, business, and science, rapidly immersing yourself in new domains to speak the language of the business
- Curious Explorer: You seek out ambiguity rather than avoiding it, driving team curiosity through challenging questions and creating an environment that encourages experimentation
- Outcome Owner: You drive an accountability culture focused on business impact rather than just deliverables, owning relationships and making trade-offs between custom solutions and generalizable work
- Systems Thinker: You map complex system interactions across technical and business domains, anticipating cascading effects and understanding how technology changes impact operations
- Precise Communicator: You translate seamlessly between technical and business language, ensuring requirements are clear enough to enable AI generation and facilitate productive discussions with stakeholders
- Problem Discoverer: You embed with users to discover latent needs, turning ambiguity into clear problem statements rather than waiting for defined tasks
What the job involves
- This role requires high-level autonomy, where you will define your own direction within strategic goals, influence multiple teams, and navigate high complexity and ambiguity to deliver tangible business results
- You will bridge the gap between technical innovation and real-world business challenges by applying advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to build predictive models and derive actionable insights
Our take
Launched in 2007, Appnovation is a global digital consultancy with offices across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The company helps enterprises and governments meet their digital transformation goals, working across sectors ranging from media and entertainment to finance, government, and life sciences. Its client roster includes major brands such as AmEx, Air Canada, and Disney too.
Thanks to the growing versatility of digital consulting - and the many forms it now takes - firms like Appnovation are drawing renewed interest from investors. With global spending possibly reaching $2.59T by 2035, the sector is entering a period of serious growth and Appnovation's recent momentum suggests its well positioned to capture a share of that growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2021
$18.9m
LATE VC
Total funding: $18.9m
Company HQ
Gastown, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Arnold Leung
(Founder & CEO)Member at YPO / WPO Canada. Previously Board Member at Vancouver Enterprise Forum, Founder at Intercarbon Networks, and Marketing Representative at BMO Nesbitt Burns.
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