Associate Director, Investment Data - SLC Management

Sun Life Financial; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 85,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Pension and matching

Flexible work environment

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

SLC Management, a global asset manager and subsidiary of Sun Life, is seeking an Associate Director, Investment Management Data. The role focuses on delivering scalable investment data products, balancing business priorities with data quality, governance, and technology considerations.

You will work with stakeholders, data engineers, and development teams in an Agile setting. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in asset management or related fields, strong SQL skills, and experience in data

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Asset Management, Capital Markets, Investment Operations, Investment Technology, or related field.
• Experience partnering with business stakeholders in data-intensive environments, including requirements gathering and solution delivery.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality, modeling, architecture, and data platforms, with SQL and analytical skills.
• Experience as a Product Owner/Business Analyst/Data Analyst within Agile delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to strategy, roadmap, and evolution of investment data products.
• Translate business priorities into user stories, data mappings, and solution designs.
• Perform data analysis, profiling, reconciliation, validation, and root-cause investigations.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog and support Agile ceremonies and release readiness.
• Support data governance, quality, lineage, and metadata initiatives.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and communicate priorities, progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Track OKRs and measure success via adoption, data quality, and business outcomes.

Skills

Asset management

Capital markets

Investment operations

Investment technology

Agile delivery

Product owner

Data analysis

SQL

Tools

SQL

Job description

SLC Management is a growing global asset management firm providing innovative and diversified investment solutions to institutional investors. We are breaking new ground with a full spectrum of solutions for a growing institutional client base of more than 1400 organizations. Our history of organic and strategic growth reflects this commitment with over CA$422/US$304 billion in assets under management (AUM). As a subsidiary of Sun Life, we are aligned with one of the world’s leading financial services companies, and benefit from the stability and strength of that relationship. We are a performance-driven organization with a deliberate focus on fostering a development-focused, inclusive culture revolving around our Core Values of being client obsessed, valuing each other, acting with speed and having an owner’s mindset. As part of our team, you play a role in fulfilling our purpose and making a difference. We offer a rewarding work environment that is filled with opportunity for growth where you will be empowered to meet the challenges of a highly competitive landscape. Visit our website to learn more and for the most up to date AUM information. SLC Management offers a mix of in-office and virtual work where our employees are empowered to do their best. Generally, employees are expected to work three or more days in-office each week with flexibility depending on their business, client and team needs.

Job Description: Associate Director, Investment Management Data – SLC Management

What is in it for you: Reporting to the Director, Investments Data Product, this role will be part of a dedicated Agile team and will be accountable for delivering investment data products through a highly dynamic and fast-paced solution development process. The Associate Director will work closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, architects, and development teams to transform business concepts and data requirements into scalable solutions. This role is accountable for balancing business priorities, user needs, data quality requirements, governance objectives, and technology considerations while ensuring successful business outcomes. The Associate Director will combine product ownership responsibilities with hands‑on data analysis and domain expertise to define, develop, and continuously improve investment data products used across the organization.

What You Will Do

• Contribute to the strategy, roadmap, and ongoing evolution of investment data products by translating business priorities into scalable solutions that improve decision-making, analytics, operational efficiency, and information management.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand business processes, challenges, and data requirements, translating needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, data mappings, process documentation, and solution designs.
• Perform data analysis, profiling, reconciliation, validation, and root-cause investigations across investment and accounting data domains, while collaborating with engineers and architects to design scalable data models, transformation rules, and reusable data products.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring delivery teams have clear requirements, priorities, and expected outcomes, while actively supporting Agile ceremonies, testing, user acceptance activities, and release readiness.
• Support enterprise data governance, quality, and control initiatives by establishing and monitoring data standards, testing practices, lineage, metadata, and business glossary requirements.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders by communicating product priorities, roadmaps, progress, risks, and outcomes, while supporting change management and user adoption activities.
• Contribute to the definition, tracking, and achievement of product and initiative objectives and key results (OKRs), measuring success through adoption, data quality, operational efficiency, and business outcomes.

What You Need to Succeed

• 6+ years of experience in Asset Management, Capital Markets, Investment Operations, Investment Technology, or a related field, with a strong understanding of investment products, portfolios, transactions, performance, benchmarks, market data, reference data, and investment lifecycle processes.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with business stakeholders in data-intensive environments, including business analysis, requirements gathering, process improvement, data profiling, data mapping, testing, and solution delivery.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise data management concepts, including data governance, data quality, data modeling, architecture, system integration, investment data platforms, and complex datasets, supported by advanced SQL and analytical skills.
• Experience working as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or similar role within Agile delivery environments, with responsibility for backlog management, prioritization, user story development, and iterative solution delivery.
• Proven ability to independently solve complex business and technology challenges, manage competing priorities, navigate ambiguity, influence stakeholders, and translate business needs into actionable solutions and measurable outcomes.
• Experience with investment systems and enterprise data platforms is considered an asset.

Why SLC Management?

• Opportunity to work for a growing global institutional asset manager
• Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being – mental, physical and financial – including generous vacation and sick time, market‑leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top up program, a partially‑paid sabbatical program and much more
• Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer‑paid match to help build and enhance your future financial security
• A flexible work environment with a friendly, caring, collaborative and inclusive culture focused on career growth development
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
• Award winning workplace culture – Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the U.S., "Best Places to Work" by Glassdoor, Award for Excellence for Mental Health at Work, "Best Places to Work in Money Management" by Pension & Investments

Job Category: Business Analysis – Systems Salary Range

85,000/85 000 - 128,000/128 000

We are committed to pay transparency and equity. The base salary range for this role is competitive and we strive to ensure that compensation is fair and equitable. Your actual base salary will be determined by your unique skills, qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive award based on individual and overall business performance along with a broad range of competitive benefits. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees feel they belong, are supported and empowered to thrive. We are dedicated to building teams with varied experiences, backgrounds perspectives and ideas that benefit our colleagues, clients, and the communities where we operate. We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds. We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling. We will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations. Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to [e-mail].

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Where talented people thrive. Performance Driven. SLC Management is a growing global asset management firm providing innovative investment solutions to institutional investors. We help our clients meet their long-term income and capital appreciation goals and our people bring this vision to life. Collaborative, Innovative and Inclusive. We foster a development-focused, inclusive culture revolving around our Core Values of being client obsessed, valuing each other, acting with speed and having an owner’s mindset. As part of our team, you will play a role in fulfilling our purpose and making a difference. Growth‑Oriented. We offer a rewarding work environment that is filled with opportunity for growth where you will be empowered to meet the challenges of a highly competitive landscape.