Data Team Lead

Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Remote

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About Flinks 🚀

Flinks is driven by the belief that data should belong to the consumers.

We enable the open, consent-based exchange of financial data while empowering businesses to connect their consumers with the services they want. Flinks connects to over 250 million financial accounts, and is trusted by hundreds of world-class companies. Flinks helps them to digitize their processes, improve their user experience, and reduce delinquency.

At Flinks, we use data to spark a digital transformation in the financial world. We allow our customers to optimize their decision processes by giving them easy access to enriched financial data, powered by sophisticated machine learning models.


About the Team 💻

Because of the growing amount of data we are able to collect and analyze, the Data Science team is playing an increasingly critical role in serving both our customers and other teams within Flinks. As the Data Team Lead at Flinks, your role will be to support the expansion of the company in new markets, lead internal projects in a hub-and-spoke environment, and contribute to R&D projects.


What You'll Be Doing 🔥

  • Lead and support the Data team and alignment on the technical direction
  • Sustain and improve the quality of our data platform
    • Define metrics and monitor the quality of model predictions
    • Optimize for performance, cost, ease of development
    • Evaluate training datasets
    • Train ML models in the cloud as an automated process
  • Collaborate with engineering and product development teams to deliver new data projects, features and solutions
  • Work hand-in-hand with ML Engineers to deploy new models and data solutions, the team is responsible for all things data; engineering and machine learning
  • Propose and implement improvements to our current technical approach


Who You Are 💪

  • We’re looking for someone who is passionate about solving business problems with data in the cloud and can leverage that knowledge to propose fresh new ideas, sustain existing ones and help shape the future of finance in Canada and across the globe.
  • You have been managing and coaching individual contributors for a number of years; you are very passionate about developing your team and individuals, and making sure things get done.
  • At least 5 years of experience as an established and confident Data Professional
  • Not afraid to try new things and to find innovation solutions and techniques
  • Strong grasp of python for data science and data engineering
  • Experience with the ML lifecycle and MLOps
  • Strong knowledge of cloud data platforms
  • Strong communicator, who is able to influence and drive change
  • Proven track record of delivering production grade data solutions leveraging your team and collaborating with other parts of the business



If we’ve piqued your curiosity, you can check out our Constitution Act to find out more about Flinks’ origins, values and culture.

* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

Tags: Engineering Finance Machine Learning ML models MLOps Python R R&D Spark

Perks/benefits: Career development

Regions: Remote/Anywhere North America
Country: Canada
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