| Location: | Remote Canada |
| Date Posted: | Oct 18, 2025 |
Job Description
Lead Data Scientist
The Role:
As part of the Data and Analytics division of JD Power, you will work to understand the features that drive the price of a vehicle and predict what future vehicle values will be, and other critical insights for the sector. Our data science team is accountable for every data point we output and provides accurate, transparent, industry-leading analytics. We are looking for a Data Scientist who will have the freedom to utilize the latest technologies to solve challenging problems, create innovative machine learning processes from the ground up, deploy them into production. We are a mature and tight-knit data science team looking to add another top-shelf team member who is ready to make a difference in the automotive industry. Join us!
The Impact:
We make data products and every new data product we output will solve a problem in the auto industry. Every Data Scientist will build models that go into production and directly impact our core products.
About the Job:
- Daily immersion in automotive industry data
- Involved in strategic planning and decision-making for data science initiatives.
- Independently create decks to make highly technical predictions relatable to the automotive industry
- Documentation of machine learning processes
- Deep expertise in advanced feature engineering and AI/ML model building.
- Development and consulting expert in SQL, Python, Advanced Excel along with a framework such as AWS SageMaker or Palantir Data Science Integrations.
- Collaborate closely with technology and engineering teams to improve existing processes and build out new ones
- Work with the product team to develop the analytics that will power new products
- Leads PI (Program Increment) planning for activities to be conducted in the next quarter, with limited supervision, for major developmental modules or projects.
- Create visual reports for internal and external clients that summarize findings
- Team environment that encourages the sharing of ideas to build the best predictive algorithms
- Ad-hoc data analysis and reporting
What You Need:
- Demonstrated expertise with data analytics and/or statistical concepts such as: regression, logistic regression, time-series modeling, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, data mining, simulation, optimization, and/or forecasting
- Ability to communicate technical processes to a lay audience
- Presentation experience
- Curiosity and passion for solving problems with data
- 8+ years of professional experience working with large datasets
- 8+ years of professional experience and full fluency with statistical programming software (including Python, Spark)
- 8+ years of professional experience with database software (RedShift, Hive, SQL, MYSQL) – full mastery of some flavor of SQL
- Master’s Degree in Statistics, Data Science, Economics, or a related technical field
Nice to Have:
- Experience with automotive market data
- Professional expertise deploying cloud-based ML Ops systems
- Experience working with AWS tools (Sagemaker, Glue, Batch, Lamdba…)
- Some shareable examples of data visualizations you have created
- Experience deploying machine learning models into production with an API
- PhD in Statistics, Data Science, Economics, or related field
The Career Opportunity:
Grow as a full-stack data scientist in a medium-sized team. You will pipeline data, build models, deploy them in the cloud, and build monitoring suites.
Company Mission
J.D. Power is clear about what we do to ensure our success into the future. We unite industry leading data and insights with world-class technology to solve our clients’ toughest challenges.
Our Values
At J.D. Power, we strive to be Truth Finders, Change Makers and Team Driven - the distinct behaviors that, together, define our unique culture.??
J.D. Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
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