Senior quantitative data scientist building cloud-native investment analytics products for iA Financial Group. Developing pipelines, Power BI solutions, and AI-ready datasets for investment teams.
Responsibilities
Partner with Portfolio Management, Asset Allocation, Trading, Performance, Risk, Research, and other investment groups
Develop and maintain analytical data products supporting investment workflows
Translate financial and analytical requirements into scalable data solutions
Ensure investment datasets are accurate, validated, timely, and well-governed
Modernize reporting and analytical processes across Investments
Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve data reliability, timeliness, and quality
Enable trusted, reusable datasets for reporting, research, visualization, and AI initiatives
Own analytical product lifecycles from ingestion and transformation through delivery and ongoing evolution
Define requirements, priorities, operating expectations, and success measures with stakeholders
Design scalable data models and transformation pipelines
Ensure analytical products are maintainable, documented, observable, and operationally supportable
Develop Power BI and Streamlit analytical experiences
Develop cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud Platform using BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and dbt
Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines
Use Docker, GitHub workflows, CI/CD concepts, and Prefect, Dagster, or Airflow
Implement data quality controls, reconciliation, monitoring, and operational runbooks
Contribute reusable data engineering components, dbt models, standards, templates, and best practices
Support analytics platform, semantic layer, data architecture, and AI-enabled workflow modernization
Requirements
Strong Python development skills and experience building modern data solutions
Strong understanding of data engineering principles, analytics engineering, data modeling, and best practices
Experience building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, analytical data models, and analytics engineering solutions using tools such as dbt
Experience implementing transformation logic, testing, documentation, lineage, and reusable modeling practices using dbt or comparable analytics engineering frameworks
Experience with Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery
Experience with Prefect, Dagster, or Airflow
Familiarity with GitHub, code reviews, CI/CD concepts, Docker, and modern software development practices
Experience building Power BI solutions, semantic models, and analytical applications
Understanding of data quality, validation, reconciliation, monitoring, and governance patterns
Ability to diagnose issues spanning data dependencies, transformation logic, orchestration, and reporting layers
Solid understanding of investment and financial analytics concepts
Ability to understand investment workflows and analytical requirements
Ability to collaborate with portfolio managers, analysts, quantitative teams, and data engineering partners
Ability to translate business and financial requirements into scalable analytical solutions
Experience working with financial datasets or investment analytics is highly desirable
High ownership and accountability
Strong collaboration skills across business, analytics, data engineering, and platform teams
Product-oriented mindset focused on business outcomes, usability, maintainability, and reuse
Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and debugging skills
Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
Undergraduate or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, Financial Engineering, or a related field preferred
5+ years of relevant experience for intermediate candidates; 8+ years for senior candidates
Experience working at the intersection of finance, analytics, data engineering, and technology
Experience building data products, analytical solutions, modern reporting capabilities, or production-grade data pipelines
Demonstrated ability to deliver and support production-grade data and analytics solutions
Advanced proficiency in French, required for daily communication with English- and French-speaking clients and partners across Canada via email and phone calls
Benefits
A work environment where learning and development merge with a collective pursuit of excellence
A healthy, safe, fair, and inclusive environment
Hybrid work environment with flexibility and access to inspiring and innovative workspaces
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