Senior Machine Learning Analyst

Export Development CanadaHalifax, Nova Scotia

3 days ago

Salary

CA$126,219.00 yearly

Job type

Full-time

Job description

Senior Machine Learning Analyst -00055C

Posting Date :

Mar 28, 2025, 12 : 03 : 47 PM

Primary Location : Ontario-Ottawa

Job Type : Permanent

Schedule : Full-time

Description

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad. EDC offers financial products and knowledge to help Canadian businesses confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk, and grow their business.

When you join our team, you’ll be helping Canadian businesses learn the endless possibilities that open to them through export and help bring their vision, passion, and innovation to the world. Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian businesses and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide. You’ll work amongst the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success. And you’ll know that you’re making an impact every day – for businesses, for Canada and for the people you work with.

Are you ready to make an impact? Join EDC, recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer, as we take on the risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world. #LI-Hybrid

Sr.) Machine Learning Analyst

The Risk Quantification (“RQ”) team is part of the Export Development Canada’s Global Risk Management Group. Among other things, the team is responsible for the development, coding, documentation, testing, and performance monitoring of many models quantifying and mitigating both financial and non-financial risks (credit, financial crime, etc.).

We are seeking a (Sr.) Machine Learning Analyst to join our dynamic team at EDC. Reporting to the Vice-President of Risk Quantification, the successful candidate will :

Leverage supervised machine learning techniques to improve current risk models and create new risk models that will improve the effectiveness and speed of decision-making.
Manage a variety of models through their life cycle, with focus on model development and performance monitoring.

This role requires a strong background in model governance, explainable machine learning, and quantitative finance.

Key Responsibilities

Design, code, test, document, maintain, and monitor decision-making models using explainable supervised machine learning techniques, including explainable neural networks.

Build and maintain the enterprise-wide semi-automated model monitoring process.

Responsible for monitoring financial and non-financial models.

Proactively identify opportunities to make improvements to models and processes.

Engage in stakeholder consultation in support of the model development and monitoring processes.

Research, review, and implement best practices in supervised machines learning and model risk management.

As needed, support other members of the team with trouble-shooting python and machine learning source code bugs.

Screening Criteria

Graduate degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Experience with advanced explainable supervised machine learning techniques.

Strong understanding of the factors and techniques improving or limiting the performance of predictive models, such as overfitting, underfitting, multicollinearity, k-fold cross validation, out-of-sample testing, etc.

Knowledge of quantitative credit risk management principles and practices.

Experience with explainable neural networks.

Minimum 5 years’ (level 17) or minimum 7 years’ (level 18) experience with python in the context of data manipulation and machine learning.

Minimum 5 years’ (level 17) or minimum 7 years’ (level 18) experience with model development, testing, monitoring or validation in the financial industry.

Assets

Experience communicating with and influencing decisions at a senior management level.

FRM certification.

Familiarity with PD, LGD, and ECL modelling.

Experience working in an OSFI-regulated financial institution.

Bilingual in both official languages (French and English).

Experience with other programming languages commonly used in finance (SAS, Matlab, R, etc.)

Compensation Details :

Salaries are based on qualifications and experience and typically range from :

Quantitative Analyst 17 : $83,037 – $110,717 annually, plus a performance-based incentive

Quantitative Analyst 18 : $94,664 - $126,219 annually, plus a performance-based incentive

Please note that we will consider candidates at each level depending on the candidate's qualifications.

Location

Export Development Canada is a hybrid work environment.

This role may be performed from EDC’s headquarters in Ottawa, or from all of our Community Hubs and Regional offices in Canada.

Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates.

EDC's Commitment to Employment Equity

EDC is committed to employment equity and achieving a diverse workforce. EDC actively encourages applications from women, Aboriginal peoples, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community. If selected for an interview, please advise us if you need any special accommodation.

Application deadline : Apr 4, 2025, 11 : 59 : 00 PMCandidates must meet the requisite government security screening requirements.

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