Senior Manager, Artificial Intelligence - Temporary

Job Description:

Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.The Artificial Intelligence’s Center of Excellence (AI-CoE) is a central group within Air Canada’s IT, Digital and Data organization that builds Machine Learning, Optimization, Simulation and Generative AI solutions to internal business units in Customer, Commercial, Operations and Corporate branches. As a Senior Manager, AI, you will lead a team of Data Scientists, Operations Research Scientists, and Data Engineers working on designing and building AI solutions backed by science. The ideal candidate will be passionate about developing talented, highly motivated, and high performing team; as well as being a curious and hands-on technology leader.In this role, you will drive the design, development, and delivery of data driven solutions. The successful candidate will be proactive and able to build trust with business stakeholders, and succeed within collaborative peer environment, working closely with Product Owners, Subject Matter Experts SME(s), Delivery Leads, Solution Architects, Infrastructure, DevOps, Digital, and QA teams.In this role, you will be reporting to the Director of Artificial Intelligence. Responsibilities: Technical Leadership and Guidance

Provide technical leadership and guidance to scientists and engineers.Assist in the professional and technical development of team leaders enabling them to set technical goals, monitor, mentor, coach, and assist team members to achieve their potential.Maintain current knowledge of industry trends and potential impact on the ongoing and future projects.Develop AC relationship within the machine learning and operations research communities, universities, and research institutes, for the team to promote growth within the group and the identification of new opportunities applicable to AC.AI Solution Design and Delivery

Be accountable for planning projects, estimating efforts, timelines, and capacity.Develop and manage a long-term vision and portfolio of machine learning/optimization initiatives and models.Inform AI platform roadmap to meet evolving needs and opportunities for improvement .Take initiatives to develop best practices and enhance project delivery to business units and look for scope for continuous improvement.Team Development and Collaboration

Foster career development of the individual team members.Manage talent and resourcing by collaborating with external development partners to complement the team required for each project.Develop business relationship with the IT, Digital and Data and AC business community leaders to give visibility to the AI Team skills and value-added opportunities.Maintain a high level of employee engagement within the team.Develop and enhance cooperative interdepartmental and vendor relationships and communications.Qualifications

Strong communication and leadership skillsMaster’s degree in science, engineering, statistics, operations research, or equivalent technical discipline. Experience with leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing scientists and/or engineers. Experience with building machine learning and/or optimization solutions to solve business problems. Experience with managing agile teams to deliver software systems that package machine learning and/or optimization models. Experience with partnering with business stakeholders and external consultants to deliver projects. Exceptional problem solving and analysis skills combined with the ability to synthesize and effectively communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience managing cross-functional teams and projects. Experience with python, R, or other related programming language. Although there is no requirement for hands-on contribution, the ideal candidate should have an acceptable level of technical hands-on competency, demonstrated by previous practical and applied experience, to earn the team trust. Experience with one of the cloud platforms, Azure, AWS, or GCP. Proven leadership ability. Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.Preferred Qualifications:

Applying machine learning and/or optimization algorithms in a large-scale production setting. Familiarity with the aviation, transportation, or logistics industry is a plus. Conditions of Employment:

Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest, at the time any offer of employment is made and seeking any required work permits/visas or other authorizations which may be required is the sole responsibility of the candidates applying for this position.Linguistic RequirementsBased on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.Diversity and InclusionAir Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.

Job Ident #: 37680

Company Details

Air Canada

7373 Boul. Cote-Vertu ouest
Saint-Laurent, Quebec H4S 1Z3 Canada
www.aircanada.com/careers

Air Canada is Canada's largest airline and the largest provider of scheduled passenger services in the Canadian market, the Canada-U.S. transborder market and in the international market to and from Canada. In 2017, Air Canada together with its Air Canada...

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Location

DORVAL, Quebec, Canada

Type

Permanent

Company Details

Air Canada

7373 Boul. Cote-Vertu ouest
Saint-Laurent, Quebec H4S 1Z3 Canada
www.aircanada.com/careers