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

- 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 setting.
- 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

- 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.

📌 Data Analytical Specialist/Scientist (Toronto)
🏢 Russell Tobin
📍 Toronto