Come make your difference in communities across Canada, where authenticity, trust and making connections is valued – as we shape the future of Canadian retail, together. Our unique position as one of the country's largest employers, coupled with our commitment to positively impact the lives of all Canadians, provides our colleagues a range of opportunities and experiences to help Canadians Live Life Well®.

At Loblaw Companies Limited, we succeed through collaboration and commitment and set a high bar for ourselves and those around us. Whether you are just starting your career, re-entering the workforce, or looking for a new job, this is where you belong. 

As a Data Scientist, you will join top tier talent at a thriving data organization and help us reach the next level in our growth and maturity. You’ll build meaningful solutions that solve problems for our customers and drive meaningful business value. We’re looking to turn our wealth of data across business lines into meaningful recommendations that drive advertising campaign results.

What You’ll Do: 

• Lead the development of an automated budget optimization system to improve ROAS and spend planning reliability for omni-channel campaigns facilitated on Advance. 

• Spearhead a simulation platform by modelling the data variance inherent in campaign outcomes, enabling selection and refinement of prototype models to move to production and improved client visibility/foresight. 

• Standardize experimental design and architectural best practices within a growing portfolio of machine-learning systems powering Advance, including sponsored search, impressions forecasting, and look-a-like modelling.

• Participate in ideating, scoping, and delivering novel data science solutions within the programmatic advertising space that favorably position Advance’s platform.  

• Address ad-hoc inquiries by exploring data and developing internal-to-team business intelligence reports and visualizations where appropriate. 

Does This Sound Like You?

• Ability to scope out new data science and machine learning solutions including establishing success criteria, defining high-level requirements, translating into lower-level technical requirements, and measuring performance. 

• Effective collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to develop and approve roadmaps, incorporate feedback into solution improvements, and coordinate delivery. 

• Ability to tailor communications to technical and non-technical audiences to increase development productivity and trust/transparency of systems.   

• Wide proficiency in applying statistical methods within the data science space including through experiments, Bayesian, frequentist, and causal inference, Markov chain Monte Carlo, and time series modelling. 

• Ability to work with an open-ended question, identify, acquire, and analyze appropriate data, and craft a story that guides business and technical decisions.

• High level of enthusiasm towards solving data oriented problems. A self-starter who excels in project management, has a wide-skillset including stakeholder management, analytics, and machine learning, and the technical prowess to deliver cutting edge solutions for algorithm simulation and incrementality measurement would be successful in this role.

Technical experience:

• Must-have

  • Proficiency with coding in Python or R.

  • High proficiency in writing SQL queries.

• Nice-to-have

  • Exposure to MLOps frameworks/platforms including CI/CD and Airflow. 

  • Experience working with Google Cloud BI tools including BigQuery and Looker.

  • Experience deploying scalable & highly available models in production environments.

  • Comfortable with object-oriented programming.

  • Experience with recommender systems and/or in data science within the advertising technology space.

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars – Environment, Sourcing and Community – and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.  
 
Please Note:
Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.

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