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5 Jun 2020

Full-Time Visualization Specialist @ Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

GSTS – Posted by ryangarnett –  Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Create compelling visualizations, dashboards and reports for internal and external purposes
  • Design and develop visualization standards to support product development based on industry best practices and current research
  • Create and maintain visualization galleries for marketing and promotional material
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of designers, developers and system administrators
  • Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement
  • Collaborating with other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience
  • Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
  • Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership

Experience and Qualifications:

 

  • Experience developing dashboards and web applications in RShiny
  • Experience creating aesthetically appealing visualizations with R packages such as ggplot2
  • Experience performing data wrangling with R packages such as data.table or dplyr
  • Experience with UI/UX design principles
  • Ability to tell a story with data to a wide range of users
  • Strong attention to detail including clear, concise and thorough documentation skills
  • Ability to listen and develop a deep understanding of project, product and client requirements
  • Strong self-initiative and work ethic
  • Demonstrated ability to work well in a multi-disciplinary team environment
  • Ability to learn and adapt new technologies
  • Knowledge of accessibility standards such as WCAG or AODA
  • Knowledge of visualizing geographic data is considered an asset

 

Additional Experience and Qualifications an asset:

Candidates must provide a digital portfolio outlining their abilities to perform the above stated responsibilities, experience and qualifications.

Candidates must hold or be able to obtain Security and Controlled Goods clearances

How to Apply

GSTS offers a competitive salary and benefits package, if you think this challenge is right for you, we encourage you to apply, forwarding  your  cover letter, current resume and contact information to [email protected]

Job Categories: Other. Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: ggplot2, shiny, and visualization.

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