Job Title: Data Science Lead Location: Vaughan, ON (3x onsite a week) Employment Type: Contract Opportunity Job Description The Data Science Lead is responsible for managing multiple data science and analytics teams, driving strategic initiatives, and delivering high-impact datadriven solutions. This role blends technical expertise, leadership, and strategic oversight, ensuring analytics efforts are aligned with business objectives, scalable, and reproducible. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in machine learning, optimization, predictive modeling, and data engineering, combined with crossfunctional leadership and stakeholder management. Key Responsibilities Leadership & MultiTeam Management Lead, mentor, and manage multiple teams of data scientists, ML engineers, and data engineers. Allocate resources, define priorities, and oversee delivery across concurrent projects. Establish technical standards, best practices, and reproducible workflows for all teams. Foster a collaborative, innovative, and learningoriented culture. Align analytics strategy with business objectives through close collaboration with senior leadership and stakeholders. Data Management & Infrastructure Oversee largescale data ingestion, cleaning, transformation, and storage. Ensure robust pipelines using PySpark, Pandas, NumPy, and SQL for distributed and vectorized processing. Manage cloudbased environments and services (Azure Databricks, Blob Storage, Synapse Analytics). Optimization & Operations Research Guide teams in designing optimization models for scheduling, routing, demand forecasting, and resource allocation. Oversee solver selection and implementation, including Gurobi. Advise on geospatial routing and analysis using OSMR. Reporting, Visualization & Communication Lead creation of dashboards, KPIs, and visualizations using Plotly, Matplotlib, and Excel/SharePoint integration. Communicate analytical insights and model results effectively to stakeholders at all levels. Track operational and model performance via Azure Application Insights and other monitoring tools. Technology & Execution Oversight Ensure teams effectively use development tools and environments, including Python 3.x, Poetry, Bash, Jupyter/Databricks Notebooks, and Git. Guide deployment and orchestration of pipelines via CI/CD, Databricks clusters, and cloudbased solutions. Promote scalable, reproducible, and maintainable architectures across all data science and analytics initiatives. Experience / Expertise 11+ years in data science, analytics, or operations research, including experience managing multiple technical teams. Proven ability to deliver scalable, productionready solutions in predictive modeling, optimization, or advanced analytics. Handson experience with cloudbased analytics platforms (Azure Databricks, Blob, Synapse) and data engineering pipelines. Strong background in machine learning, statistical modeling, operations research, and optimization algorithms. Advanced algorithms and techniques applied in experience include: MixedInteger Linear Programming (MILP), Constraint Programming (CP) Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) / Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) Regression and Classification models, Gradient Boosting (LightGBM), Logistic Regression SHAP and feature importance for explainability. Excellent communication skills for translating complex models and algorithms into actionable business insights. Disclaimer: As part of our hiring process, we may use automated or AIbased tools to support candidate screening and application review. These tools are used to assist decisionmaking and do not replace human judgment. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Data Science Lead