Senior Data Scientist - AI

Location: TORONTO, Ontario, Canada

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

Wealth Management Data & AI is responsible for delivering a global data foundation and innovative AI capabilities across all of Wealth Management’s global businesses. We are looking to hire a talented Data Scientist to join our data science and engineering team. The role will be responsible for applying modern AI and data techniques to deliver data science solutions for Wealth Management.

What will you do?

• You will be responsible for owning and delivering data science projects end to end: from data exploration, data pre-processing, to building and scaling ML algorithms and pipelines, to deployment and monitoring of production models.

• Participate in the developing high-impact AI solutions for Wealth Management, from research and prototyping to production deployment, apply data science industry best practices to build robust and scalable large scale modeling systems. 

• Assist Operations business managers to perform advanced data analysis, statistical reports, and support ad hoc data explorations for various business cases.

• Work together with other stakeholders in the business, collaborate with data engineers, application developers, and product managers to build and productionize enterprise level Data & AI solutions.

Must Have: 

• 3+ years of work experience in applied data science, in depth knowledge of statistical analysis, data structures, machine learning, deep learning, NLP and Generative AI 

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python programming languages

• Experience in data manipulation and visualizations, able to handle unstructured data and big datasets 

• Experience in building and maintaining machine learning models, model tunings, and model monitoring  

• Ability to apply data science and statistical techniques to solve real world business problems

• Ability to communicate data science findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Familiar with JIRA, Confluence, Agile/Scrum development methodology

Nice To Have: 

• Master’s or PhD Degree in computer science, engineering or related technical field

• Experience in building data products for analytics is a plus

• Hands-on experience with Prompt Engineering, including designing and refining prompts to optimize LLM outputs, implementing Gen AI systems into production 

• Familiar with AI Ops workflow and pipelines for productionizing models is a plus (CI/CD pipelines, observability, containers).

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

• A world-class training program in financial services

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities    

• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.

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Job Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data Management, Data Analysis, Data Mining, Deep Learning, Machine Learning Model Development, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python (Programming Language), Statistical Analysis, Structured Query Language (SQL), Unstructured Data, Visualizations

Additional Job Details

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeWEALTH MANAGEMENTRegularSalaried2025-09-032026-05-31

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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