Junior Data Scientist

Job Summary

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

The Junior Data Scientist, Global Procurement and Shared Services is mandated to develop and maintain data assets supporting procurement and sourcing activities while following industry trends and pushing innovation throughout the department.  Utilizing sophisticated tools and techniques the Junior Data Scientist, Global Procurement and Shared Services will develop and tune new and existing solutions used to understand contracts, analyze supplier and spend data and continuously look for opportunities to provide more relevant and valuable intelligence to the Global Procurement and Shared Services department.

What will you do?

• Develop new Contract Analytics solutions with machine learning and data science techniques.

• Maintain and improve existing models, specifically with respect to contract analysis and entity matching.

• Identify opportunities in applying new technologies and models to Procurement and Sourcing activities.

• Develop required documentation and monitoring methodology for models and solutions, aligning with both the team and organizations standards.

• Implement pipelines to acquire and ingest data from structured and unstructured sources, while ensuring quality and comprehensiveness.

• Execute routine operational tasks to push data into the departmental data mart and reporting database to enable downstream reporting and dashboards.

• Lead data exploration and analytic projects and providing on-going coaching of big data topics (visualization, data mining, analytic techniques).

• Explore and implementing semantic data capabilities through NLP, text mining and machine learning techniques.

• Collaborate with the immediate team to develop and maintain solutions while fostering relationships with other technical teams within RBC, as well as business partners, industry peers and external vendors to better understand business processes and how data science can fit in.

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have

• Post-secondary education or equivalent.

• Strong data, analytical, quantitative method and problem-solving skills.

• Expertise in analyzing and manipulating large datasets with Python.

• Proficiency and familiarity with different SQL databases and GitHub.

Nice to Have

• Graduate degree (Masters or MBA).

• Big Data Engineering background.

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

Critical Thinking, Data Administration, Data Mining, Data Modeling, Data Movement, Detail-Oriented, Group Problem Solving, Quantitative Research, Research Documents

Additional Job Details

Address:

BAY WELLINGTON TOWER, 181 BAY ST:TORONTO

City:

TORONTO

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

CHIEF LEGAL & ADMIN OFFICE GRP

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2025-06-25

Application Deadline:

2025-07-12

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

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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