Senior Data Scientist - Toronto Hub

Canada - Toronto

Veeva Systems

Veeva Systems Inc. is a leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva has more than 1,100 customers, ranging from the world's largest...

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Veeva [NYSE: VEEV] is the leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, our customers range from the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. Veeva’s software helps our customers bring medicines and therapies to patients faster.
We are the first public company to become a Public Benefit Corporation. As a PBC, we are committed to making the industries we serve more productive, and we are committed to creating high-quality employment opportunities.
Veeva is a Work Anywhere company which means that you can choose to work in the environment that works best for you - on any given day. Whether you choose to work remotely from home or in our Toronto office - it’s up to you.
Veeva is looking for an all-star Senior Data Scientist to join the Vault Outside Life Science (OLS) team.  We’re looking for a high-energy, passionate individual with a deep technical background who is eager to drive product advancement and innovation.  In this role, you will be responsible for creating game-changing products in the manufacturing industries such as Consumer Packaged Goods, Chemical, and Cosmetics.  If you have a passion for creating world-class products and enjoy solving complex problems with simple, elegant solutions, you may be a good fit for this position.    

What You'll Do

  • Be involved in sales discussions, potentially fueling the conversation about what AI can do and bringing clarity to the discussion
  • Work with customers and implementation teams to build out custom solutions
  • Build POCs with AWS assistance and consulting PMs on opportunities
  • Be hands-on.  Design, Prototype, Configure - validate solutions rapidly to ensure we solve the right problems, in the right order
  • Be a storyteller. Author & design high-quality specifications and communicate specific, actionable requirements to your engineering teammates
  • Be a leader. Look for opportunities to innovate, keep up with the latest software, machine learning, manufacturing industries trends, and distill them into product requirements
  • Be agile. Design, implement, iterate
  • Take pride in your work

Requirements

  • 2+ years of software development/architect, product management, or technical consulting role in AI
  • 5+ years of professional work experience in agile software development environments
  • Demonstrated skills in design, product development, and planning
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, with little direct supervision
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to effectively explain complex problems and advocate technical solutions to Engineering and customers
  • Degree in computer science or engineering
  • Experience with AI and Machine Learning Models
  • Experience with Natural Language Processing

  • Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in Canada. Veeva does not provide sponsorship of employment visa for this position.

Nice to Have

  • Experience working in the following industries: Consumer Packaged Goods, Chemical and Cosmetics
  • Experience working on SaaS enterprise applications or content management systems
  • Experience with API and data exchange schemas
  • Experience with data migration
  • Experience with Search matching algorithms and heuristics
  • Experience with Python, SQL, XML, and JSON

Perks & Benefits

  • Conveniently located in downtown Toronto
  • Snacks, beverages, and weekly lunches from local restaurants
  • Team events and rec league sports teams
  • Allocations for continuous learning & development
  • Health & wellness programs
  • Weekly yoga classes
  • Ping pong and other games
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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.
Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.

Tags: Agile APIs AWS Computer Science Consulting Engineering JSON Machine Learning ML models NLP Python SQL XML

Perks/benefits: Career development Health care Lunch / meals Snacks / Drinks Team events Wellness Yoga

Region: North America
Country: Canada
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