Data Solutions Designer

CoreFactor; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreFactor is seeking a Data Solutions Designer for a full-time position with a client in the GTA. The role is hybrid, requiring four days per week in downtown Toronto, and focuses on shaping data-driven solutions across investment insights, operations, and client reporting.

You will design and guide end-to-end data flows—from source systems to BI, data science models, and external consumers—while collaborating with data engineers, quants, and business stakeholders in a regulated asset

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level or higher in a related field is required.
• 5+ years of experience in data architecture/design or data engineering, preferably in financial services or asset management.
• Experience with Snowflake, AWS, and dbt is highly valued.
• Certifications in Snowflake, AWS, dbt, TOGAF are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data solutions for BI, analytics, and AI/ML initiatives.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analytics, quants, and business stakeholders.
• Define data flows from ingestion through transformation, storage, and delivery (real-time and batch).
• Ensure designs align with data governance, platform standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Review solutions to ensure maintainability and strategic alignment.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field

Master's degree in Data Analytics, Information Systems, or Financial Engineering (preferred)

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

Tableau Data Catalogs

Alation

Job description

CoreFactor is searching for a Data Solutions Designer on full-time/permanent basis for a client in the GTA. This role is hybrid and will require the successful incumbent to go into the office four (4) times per week in downtown Toronto. Our client is seeking a Data Solutions Designer to join their Data, Analytics & AI team in shaping data-driven solutions that enable investment insights, operational efficiency, and client reporting across our asset management business. In this role, you will help design and guide the implementation of end-to-end data flows—from source systems through to final consumption by business intelligence platforms, data science models, and third-party consumers. This includes contributing to platform architecture, data modeling, and solution review across a modern stack. You’ll collaborate with data engineers, analysts, quants, and business stakeholders to ensure that data solutions are well-architected, secure, scalable, and aligned with the needs of a fast-paced, regulated industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Design End-to-End Data Solutions
• Design robust data solutions supporting business intelligence, data processes, analytics and AI/ML initiatives.
• Develop technical flowcharts, data flow diagrams (DFDs), and system interaction models to visualize and validate proposed data solution designs.
• Define data flows from ingestion through transformation, storage, and delivery—including real-time and batch patterns.
• Ensure solutions support both operational and analytical use cases (e.g. dashboards, APIs, external data delivery).

Collaborate Across Teams

• Partner with data engineering, analytics, and AI teams to evaluate and enhance solution designs.
• Provide guidance on architectural decisions, platform capabilities, and technology choices within our AWS and Snowflake-based ecosystem.

Modeling & Metadata

• Design logical and physical data models to support various levels of reporting and analysis.
• Partner with Data Governance to help promote standards for metadata, documentation, and lineage tracking using tools like Alation, DBT and Tableau Data Catalogs.

Platform & Governance Alignment

• Ensure all designs align with platform standards, data governance policies, and regulatory requirements relevant to asset management.
• Contribute to improving data product delivery patterns, reusability, and performance optimization.

Review & Influence

• Review proposed solution designs and challenge approaches to ensure strategic alignment, maintainability, and fit-for-purpose outcomes.
• Act as a thought partner in refining how we deliver data, analytics, and AI capabilities to the business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field (required).
• Master’s degree in Data Analytics, Information Systems, or Financial Engineering (preferred).
• Relevant certifications (e.g. Snowflake, AWS, dbt, TOGAF) are a plus.
• 5+ years of experience in data architecture/data solution design, or data engineering—preferably within financial services or asset management
• Strong understanding of data platforms and architecture, including experience with:
  • Snowflake for cloud data warehousing
  • AWS for cloud services and data pipelines
  • dbt for transformation and documentation
• Demonstrated experience designing data flows and models to support BI, reporting, and/or AI/ML use cases.