{"id":3473541,"url":"https://alion.io/job/shyftlabs-forward-senior-data-analyst-advanced-analytics-data-science","title":"Forward - Senior Data Analyst, Advanced Analytics & Data Science","company":{"id":685982,"name":"Shyftlabs","domain":"shyftlabs.io","url":"https://alion.io/company/shyftlabs","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":91,"open_postings":25,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.36,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":39,"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"}},"role":"Analytics","role_family":"Analytics","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Toronto, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":58000,"max_usd":101000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":161},"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Google BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"Looker","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"NumPy","optional":false},{"name":"Pandas","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Scikit-learn","optional":false},{"name":"SciPy","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Statsmodels","optional":false},{"name":"Tableau","optional":false},{"name":"A/B Testing","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-29T17:37:33Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-29","last_verified_at":"2026-10-31T22:58:08Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"The Opportunity\nShyftLabs is a fast-growing data and technology company partnering with Fortune 500 organizations to deliver innovative, data-driven solutions. We help enterprise clients solve complex business challenges through modern data platforms, cloud technologies, artificial intelligence, and scalable software engineering.\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Data Analyst, Advanced Analytics & Data Science to support Retail Media Network (RMN) initiatives for one of our enterprise clients. In this client-facing role, you will leverage advanced analytics, statistical modeling, and data science techniques to evaluate advertising performance, uncover actionable business insights, and support strategic decision-making.\nYou will work closely with business stakeholders and cross-functional technical teams to develop scalable analytical solutions, build stakeholder-ready dashboards, optimize campaign measurement, and identify opportunities for growth. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise in SQL, Python, and business intelligence tools with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nConduct advanced data analysis, exploratory data analysis, statistical modeling, and hypothesis testing to identify trends, performance drivers, and actionable business insights.\n\nAnalyze Retail Media Network (RMN) campaign performance, attribution, return on ad spend (ROAS), and incrementality to evaluate advertising effectiveness and identify optimization opportunities.\n\nDevelop and implement predictive models, forecasting methodologies, customer and campaign segmentation, and machine learning solutions to address business challenges.\n\nDesign, build, and maintain interactive dashboards, analytical data models, and scalable reporting solutions using Tableau, Looker, or comparable business intelligence platforms.\n\nLeverage SQL, Google BigQuery, and Python to extract, transform, analyze, and validate large datasets, ensuring analytical outputs are accurate, reliable, and scalable.\n\nApply statistical and data science methodologies to measure campaign effectiveness, evaluate performance drivers, and support advertising measurement and optimization strategies.\n\nAutomate recurring reports, analytical workflows, data validation processes, and other manual activities to improve operational efficiency and scalability.\n\nPartner with client stakeholders and cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, define analytical approaches, and deliver data-driven recommendations.\n\nTranslate complex analytical findings into clear insights, visualizations, and presentations for both technical and non-technical audiences.\n\nManage analytical projects from discovery through delivery, proactively coordinating timelines, dependencies, risks, and deliverables.\n\nIdentify opportunities to improve analytical methodologies, reporting processes, experimentation, and predictive capabilities through continuous innovation.\n\nMaintain comprehensive documentation of analytical methodologies, data definitions, business logic, and reporting processes to support consistency, transparency, and governance.\n\nProvide guidance and mentorship to junior analysts, promoting best practices in data analysis, statistical modeling, reporting, and stakeholder communication.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n4-7 years of professional experience in data analytics, business intelligence, advanced analytics, data science, or a related quantitative field, with demonstrated experience applying analytical techniques to business problems.\n\nStrong proficiency in SQL and Google BigQuery, including querying large datasets, performing data transformations, developing analytical models, and optimizing query performance.\n\nHands-on experience with Python and analytical libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-learn, Statsmodels, or equivalent tools.\n\nDemonstrated experience with statistical analysis, exploratory data analysis, hypothesis testing, regression, forecasting, segmentation, and other advanced analytical techniques.\n\nStrong experience developing dashboards, visualizations, and reporting solutions using Tableau, Looker, or comparable business intelligence platforms.\n\nExperience applying analytics to business performance measurement, campaign effectiveness, marketing analytics, advertising measurement, or similar domains.\n\nFamiliarity with advertising measurement concepts, including attribution, ROAS, incrementality, campaign optimization, and performance measurement, is highly desirable.\n\nExperience automating analytical workflows, recurring reporting, data validation, and manual processes using SQL, Python, or scripting tools.\n\nStrong understanding of data quality, metric definitions, data validation, analytical documentation, and data governance practices.\n\nAbility to translate complex business questions into structured analytical approaches and communicate findings through clear, actionable business recommendations.\n\nDemonstrated ownership of analytical projects, including the ability to independently manage multiple priorities, timelines, and deliverables in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.\n\nStrong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively in a client-facing environment.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience working with Retail Media Networks (RMNs), digital advertising, e-commerce analytics, or marketing measurement.\n\nExperience evaluating campaign incrementality and attribution methodologies to distinguish observed performance from true incremental impact.\n\nFamiliarity with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing, causal inference, and measurement methodologies for assessing campaign effectiveness.\n\nExperience developing and deploying predictive models or machine learning solutions to support business forecasting, segmentation, and optimization.\n\nExperience working with large-scale cloud data platforms and modern analytical data environments.\n\nSalary Range\n$150,000 - $160,000 (CAD)","description_format":"text","description_chars":6056,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Canada","iso":"CA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["AI Consulting & Integration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-29T18:05:19Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":39,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/shyftlabs-forward-senior-data-analyst-advanced-analytics-data-science","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/shyftlabs-forward-senior-data-analyst-advanced-analytics-data-science.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-01T02:23:13Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3575,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":685982},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=685982"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fshyftlabs-forward-senior-data-analyst-advanced-analytics-data-science"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fshyftlabs-forward-senior-data-analyst-advanced-analytics-data-science"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fshyftlabs-forward-senior-data-analyst-advanced-analytics-data-science"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/shyftlabs-forward-senior-data-analyst-advanced-analytics-data-science\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fshyftlabs-forward-senior-data-analyst-advanced-analytics-data-science"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3473541}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"shyftlabs.io","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3473541},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}