Research and Development Analyst - Temporary Assignment Up To 18 Months Job Details

Date: Mar 12, 2025

Location:

Pickering, ON, CA

Type of Position: Temporary

Type of Position:

Number of Positions: 1

Salary Min: $79,801.00

Salary Max:

Description:

Do you want to be part of a team helping to strengthen every community across Ontario? Are you interested in seeing the importance of your work firsthand? Do you have a passion for big data and cloud computing – and know the benefit of using data to improve business practices?

Become a Research and Development Analyst - Temporary Assignment Up To 18 Months with MPAC

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is made up of a team of experts who understand local communities and assess every property in Ontario. What we do provides the very foundation that municipalities use to base the property taxes needed to pay for the services we use every day.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism

MPAC is committed to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism. We are taking important steps towards ensuring that all voices are respected, valued and being heard. MPAC is dedicated to fostering an environment where employees can bring their full, unique and authentic selves and are inspired to do their best work.

Our Information Technology team works closely with each department across the business to design, build and deliver innovative solutions that help make MPAC an international leader in the property assessment industry. The way we think about technology is different, and our teams are proud to share their knowledge and contribute to meaningful, technology-enabled success stories that enhance operational intelligence and customer service delivery. We tackle complex problems collaboratively in an agile environment, and are committed to ensuring MPAC technology is consistently available, scalable, performance-based and secure. We’re a group of forward-thinking and talented professionals who stay ahead of the game by using open source technology, cutting-edge cloud computing, advanced analytics and predictive and machine learning models.

Job Description

What makes you great for this role?
You are a detailed-oriented individual who can research, analyze, design, develop and support a variety of custom products for internal and or external customers.

We have:

A team of highly skilled, dedicated, and collaborative staff to work with
Leadership that supports you
An enterprise that embraces change
A work environment that has flexible work locations (including remote), hours of work and overall employee wellness support

You have:

Completion of relevant post-secondary education in Real Property, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics or related field
Experience in product development, information technology, property valuation and/or related field
Experience in computerized information systems including a variety of statistical, programming, GIS, database and reporting tools such as SAS, SPSS, R, GIS, Java, Python, AI/ML
Proficiency in the development of scripts to automate macros/routine procedures, extend or create new procedures, and customize reports
Ability to work with a variety of database environments to conduct extracts, analyses and other large-scale data manipulations
Excellent analytical, problem-solving and organization skills to administer and organize multiple concurrent projects and prioritize tasks to meet tight deadlines
A high level of adaptability when working with customers to develop customized products
Well-developed interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills in report writing and presentations
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others in building partnerships between teams and departments, and the ability to develop and sustain customer focus to meet the needs of client groups

Nice to have:

An understanding of real property appraisal methodologies – working towards accreditation from AIC, IMA, IAAO
A product development mindset

What you will do:

Research and development of new valuation products and appraisal tools
Real Estate market analytics
Identify new product ideas and prototype development in support of cost savings, operational efficiencies and revenue generation
Define accurate customer requirements and specifications to document end-to-end technical product specifications
Evaluate process controls and conduct testing against specifications
Ensure compliance to testing standards, quality and product delivery timelines
Develop, design and execute programming in various platforms and programming languages in compliance to coding standards to produce deliverables based on customer requirements
Establish sustainable partnerships and provide consultation services in areas of Revenue Generating products
Participate as representative(s) from the Revenue Services IT team on projects related to Business Development initiatives
Liaise and collaborate with key stakeholders in Business Development to translate business and technical requirements into (product development) solutions as per customer contracts
Prepare and design presentation materials and demonstrations for meetings to various customer groups and committees, including analytics
Conduct process controls and ensure adherence to deadlines for contractual and legislative products
Develop and automate the production of regularly occurring products
Develop products based on requirements provided by our clients and Business Development in a timely and efficient manner
Assist with the continuous development of our industry leading Automated Valuation Model

Additional Information:

Requisition ID: 2474
Job Type: Union
Closing Date:March 25, 2025

Ready to apply?

Please note, only applications submitted through the Applicant Tracking System will be accepted.

Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background verification with Mintz Global Screening. By applying to this job posting, you are providing your consent to MPAC to share your name, email address and phone number with Mintz, to conduct the criminal and driver abstract check and for Mintz to disclose the results to MPAC, should you be the successful incumbent.

MPAC is committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment where all employees and members of the public feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflect the diversity of the public and communities we serve.

Persons with disability who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may email their request to careers@mpac.ca.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Please note that MPAC prohibits employees from holding a current/valid real estate license and successful applicants must at least suspend their real estate licenses during their period of employment at MPAC as outlined in our Employee Code of Conduct.

Job advertisements for positions that have been designated bilingual will be posted in both English and French on our website. Positions that are not designated bilingual are not translated and are only posted in English on the English version of our website.

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