Job Responsibility:

Senior Director of Data Science

Who Are We?

As a group of passionate technology developers, successful entrepreneurs and industry experts, SiftMed is scaling and growing quickly. We are looking for individuals with a passion for developing advanced technology and constantly pushing the envelope.

SiftMed is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing software that organizes, categorizes, and analyzes medical files. With a mission to help find facts in medical data that can change lives - the company is currently focused on improving access to critical information that helps legal teams and medical experts to quickly and accurately find key hidden facts in medical data.

What do we offer?

As a group, we never take ourselves too seriously but believe we truly can make a big difference. We work very hard but we also enjoy having fun, from laser tag, full company strategic offsites, and did we mention a slack channel dedicated to pictures of your pets? We want everyone to be empowered, regardless of your role, you have a seat at the table and we want to hear from you.

We recognize the importance of an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workforce. Diversity and inclusion are one of our core values. To this end, we commit to creating an inclusive environment for all.

What do we need?

A talented, strategic, and hands on leader to run the AI/data analytics group. This role will involve people management, feature design, software development, data analysis, MLOps, and much more.

Who are you?

You are someone who can simultaneously develop a strategic plan, design system architectures,



and write/deploy code to production. Someone who sees the big picture and loves finding a way to make it a reality. Team leadership and mentoring should be second nature to you.

Responsibilities

- Manage and run SiftMeds data analytics team who are responsible for developing cutting edge approaches to analyzing and organizing medical data
- Work with leadership to develop the technical features and capability roadmap, and be comfortable bringing your own ideas to the table
- Identify, collect, clean, analyze, and model large amounts of complex data in a distributed fashion.
- Interpret data analysis results and provide actionable reports
- Build and advance our infrastructure as required to meet data analysis requirements
- Build pipelines or tools as needed to help the analytic teams
- Design and implement tools, data models, and dashboards to help visualize or monitor data
- Mentor and train other data analysts and similar roles.
- Stay up-to-date on the latest technologies; attends applicable training, conferences, and learns new tools/technologies as needed.
- Prioritize and complete multiple tasks with little or no supervision.
- Perform other duties as assigned.





Essential Skills And Qualifications

- Minimum of 8 years of experience with large-scale data and analytics solutions
- A strong team player and works well within a diverse, cross-functional team.
- Ability to use different approaches to solve hard data oriented problems
- Highly skilled in SQL databases (Postgres preferred), as well as others such as NoSQL or graph.
- Skilled in one or more scripting languages. Python is required.
- Experience analyzing large amounts of complex data.
- Proficiency producing and communicating technical reports or finding on systems and data
- Ability to present findings to diverse audiences.
- Proficiency in turning business use cases and requirements into technical solutions
- Good understanding of API development, ETL processes and integrations
- Experience in managing teams, being a technical coach
- Experience driving knowledge transfer and/or training programs
- Experience with agile delivery methodologies, proof of concepts and prototyping
- Experience with preparing data for Data Science and Machine Learning
- Above and beyond: experience working with data warehouses and data lakes.

If you are looking for a change of pace, a chance to work with a fast-growing team, and have an entrepreneurial spirit, we would love to hear from you. Please email your resume to View email address on ca.edajobs.com to apply!

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

- Dental care
- Versatile schedule
- Paid time off
- Work from home

Work Location: Remote

📌 Senior Director of Data Science (Canada)
🏢 SiftMed
📍 Canada