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Description

As a new and exciting role to SaskTel, we are seeking a Data Scientist to join our new Business Intelligence Centre of Excellence focused on improving customer experience, identifying cost reduction strategies and growing revenues. The successful candidate will be joining a team of professionals who support various business units across SaskTel with their data knowledge, experience and insights. The successful candidate will have thorough, applied knowledge of statistical concepts and calculations, data analysis, predictive modeling, machine learning, and data mining techniques. This is a critical and unique position at SaskTel and it requires an individual who has complex problem-solving skills, can collaborate well with others, and is a proven leader. This role resides within SaskTels Corporate Strategy & Brand Division.

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Bachelor's degree in Business, Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, or Economics, with a preference for an advanced degree.

2. Thorough, applied knowledge of statistical concepts and calculations, data analysis, predictive modeling, machine learning, data mining techniques and data warehousing, including:
a. Data visualization techniques and tools
b. Machine learning techniques and algorithms
c. Statistical software tools such as R, SAS, Splunk, or Power BI
d. SQL and other database querying languages

3. Ability to apply advanced data-mining and modeling techniques against diverse and disparate data sources.

4. Knowledge of and demonstrated ability to develop and apply best practice both from an industry and departmental perspective.

5. Ability to understand various data structures and common methods in data transformation.

6. Problem solving skills and an ability to creatively analyze new business problems.

For more information about this job and to apply, visit sasktel.com/careers