Data Analytical Specialist/Scientist

Russell Tobin & Associates is hiring on behalf of one of its esteemed clients.

• Job ID: 26-22756
• Job Title: Data Analytical Specialist/Scientist - Senior
• Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
• Duration: 5+ Months (with possible extension)
• Client: Public Sector
• Pay Rate: CAD $60 -$75 per hour

Must have:

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong consulting and relationship-management skills to work with client groups, technical teams, data stewards, data engineers and stakeholders to confirm requirements, options, constraints, and delivery decisions.
• Ability to communicate complex quantitative methods, assumptions, outputs, and limitations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Senior-level experience with statistical methods and models, including their underlying data requirements, model validation, and reproducible analytical workflows.
• Experience designing data-ingestion, transformation, quality-checking, and reproducible data-processing workflows.

Evaluation Criteria

General Skills (Required)

• • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• • Strong consulting and relationship-management skills to work with client groups, technical teams, data stewards, data engineers and stakeholders to confirm requirements, options, constraints, and delivery decisions.
• • Ability to communicate complex quantitative methods, assumptions, outputs, and limitations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• • Senior-level experience with statistical methods and models, including their underlying data requirements, model validation, and reproducible analytical workflows.
• • Ability to manipulate and analyze complex data from structured and unstructured sources to support evidence-based decision-making.
• • Experience designing data-ingestion, transformation, quality-checking, and reproducible data-processing workflows.
• • Broad understanding of data management, business analysis, database architecture, governance, and information visualization.
• • Proficiency in R and/or Python, query languages, and version-controlled analytical code to ensure that any ODBM analytical workflows can be implemented, run, troubleshooted, and documented.
• • Strong investigative, mathematical, and statistical skills to assess model logic, test assumptions, resolve data or code issues, and support sustainable knowledge transfer.

• Assets / Desirable
• • Experience with R and PowerBI.
• • Experience with population or public-health data and chronic-disease, microsimulation, or burden-of-disease modelling.
• • Experience building on, or adapting, an external academic or research model within a production environment.

• • Familiarity with cloud analytics environments (e.g., Azure) and platform-based delivery products such as Databricks.
• • Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and related standards.

Experience Level — Senior

Per the OPS On-Demand IT Services VOR experience-level definitions, the Senior level is expected to:

• • Be an advanced professional able to apply concepts, practices, and procedures in practice.
• • Work with minimal direction and lead and train others in technical components and concepts.
• • Plan, lead, and deliver complex deliverables that provide options for decisions within the organization.
• • Bring a high level of expertise in the required skill set, specialized in the technical area, and provide specific advisory support as required.

If this opportunity matches your experience and career goals, please share your most updated resume for consideration.

Russell Tobin is a leading minority-owned professional and technical recruitment and staffing advisory organization. We are comprised of specialized practices focusing on a variety of skill sets and industries. Having a depth and breadth of industry expertise, our subject matter experts can provide tailored and swift sourcing solutions to fulfill client hiring needs. In other words, we connect top talent with companies. We are the staffing arm of the Pride Global network, a minority-owned integrated human capital solutions firm, with additional offerings in vendor management, payroll programs, and business process optimization.

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