Senior Analyst, Quantitative Data Science

iA Financial Group (Industrial Alliance); Quebec; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible group insurance

Pension plan

Stock purchase plan

Vacation and wellness/personal dev.

Job summary

iA Financial Group (Industrial Alliance) seeks an Associate Director of Data Science within iA Global Asset Management to design, deliver governed data products and analytics solutions for investment teams. You will lead full product lifecycle, from design to production, balancing reliability and scalability in a hybrid work environment.

This role blends financial data expertise with modern data engineering, Python, SQL, dbt, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, Financial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Eight or more years of relevant experience in quantitative engineering, data engineering, analytics engineering, or financial data solutions.
• Experience delivering and supporting production-grade data or analytical products.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop governed, documented, and reusable quantitative data products across the organization.
• Develop complex Python analytics/workflows including time-series processing, performance, and risk.
• Apply AI-assisted development to accelerate design, testing, and delivery of analytical products.
• Develop visualizations and analytical applications using Power BI and Streamlit.
• Translate investment requirements into clear, maintainable technical designs.

Skills

Python development

SQL

AI/ML development

Data pipelines

Testing & documentation

Git & CI/CD

Cloud data platforms

Power BI / Streamlit

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/Math/Finance

Tools

dbt

Google Cloud Platform / BigQuery

Power BI

Streamlit

Airflow / Prefect

Job description

Data Science Team Overview

The Data Science function within iA Global Asset Management (iAGAM) is a key driver of strategic transformation across Investments, contributing to the organization’s long-term vision and scalable systems and analytics objectives. The team works closely with Front Office investment teams to modernize analytical workflows, enable cloud-native solutions, and accelerate the adoption of advanced analytics and AI capabilities. Within this mandate, the analytics team focuses on delivering trusted analytical data products, scalable analytics solutions, and standardized investment datasets that enable consistent decision-making across investment teams. The team helps modernize the data and analytics foundation that powers reporting, quantitative analysis, portfolio insights, and AI-enabled investment workflows.

Build the future with us

The Data Science function within iA Global Asset Management (iAGAM) is a key driver of strategic transformation across Investments, contributing to the organization’s long-term vision and scalable systems and analytics objectives. The team works closely with Front Office investment teams to modernize analytical workflows, enable cloud-native solutions, and accelerate the adoption of advanced analytics and AI capabilities. Within this mandate, the analytics team focuses on delivering trusted analytical data products, scalable analytics solutions, and standardized investment datasets that enable consistent decision-making across investment teams. The team helps modernize the data and analytics foundation that powers reporting, quantitative analysis, portfolio insights, and AI-enabled investment workflows.

Role Overview

The Associate Director designs and supports data and analytics products, as well as visualization solutions, for investment teams. The Associate Director is responsible for the full product lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, monitoring, and production support. The role combines strong development expertise, quantitative and financial knowledge, and an excellent command of modern data engineering practices. The Associate Director addresses the complex needs of investment teams by implementing well-designed, governed, reusable, and scalable data solutions. The Associate Director also leverages AI powered development and analytics capabilities to accelerate the delivery of high-value solutions, modernize existing solutions, reduce technical debt, and develop new analytical products. In addition, the Associate Director demonstrates strong leadership skills and can guide and mobilize teams, both functionally and across organizational boundaries, on the projects for which the Associate Director is responsible. This is a data engineering-focused role that requires a strong understanding of financial concepts related to portfolio management. It is not a quantitative research or portfolio management role.

What You’ll Accomplish With Us

Quantitative Data Product Engineering

Design and develop governed, documented, and reusable quantitative data products that provide consistent investment data and calculations across the organization.

• Develop complex analytical workflows in Python, including financial calculations, time-series processing, performance, risk, and fund analytics.
• Transform analytical logic into tested, documented, and production-quality solutions.
• Use AI-assisted development to accelerate the design, modernization, testing, and delivery of analytical products.
• Develop visualizations, and analytical applications using tools such as Power BI and Streamlit.
• Translate investment requirements and business concepts into clear, maintainable technical designs.

Data Modelling and Cloud Engineering

• Design trusted and reusable investment data models that address the business needs of data consumers.
• Use libraries such as dbt for transformations, testing, documentation, lineage, and governed data modelling.
• Develop scalable pipelines and curated datasets across investment-data domains, and orchestrate them effectively using tools such as Prefect or Airflow.
• Apply clear business definitions, ownership, data-quality expectations, and modelling standards.
• Contribute reusable engineering patterns and shared platform capabilities.

Production Ownership and Reliability

• Build appropriate controls for data quality, reconciliation, monitoring, recoverability, and operational support.
• Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and implement sustainable solutions.
• Ensure products are observable, well documented, and maintainable by other team members.
• Balance immediate delivery needs with long-term reliability, standardization, and reuse.

Investment Partnership

• Work directly with portfolio managers, performance, risk, and other investment teams.
• Understand existing analytical workflows and help modernize them into scalable data products.
• Establish clear requirements, business definitions, assumptions, and expected outcomes.
• Communicate technical designs, limitations, and operational considerations clearly.
• Support adoption and continuous improvement of delivered products.

What Could Accelerate Your Success In This Role

We’re looking for someone who:

Core Technical Requirements

• Strong Python development skills, including experience building complex analytical or data-processing workflows.
• Strong SQL and data-modelling skills.
• Ability to use AI effectively to accelerate software and analytics development while maintaining appropriate engineering, testing, and production-quality standards
• Experience developing reliable data pipelines and products used in production.
• Experience with dbt or comparable analytics-engineering frameworks.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery, or comparable cloud data platforms.
• Experience using Power BI, Streamlit, or comparable tools.
• Strong understanding of testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Experience with Git-based development, code reviews, automated deployment, and modern software-engineering practices.
• Ability to design solutions that are maintainable, reusable, and operationally supportable.

Quantitative and Investment Experience

• Experience working with investment, financial, risk, or other complex analytical data.
• Strong understanding of quantitative concepts and time-series data.
• Familiarity with investment domains such as financial reference and market data, including issuers, counterparties, cash and derivative financial instruments; market-data providers such as Bloomberg, MSCI, FTSE, and Refinitiv; and positions, performance, attribution, exposures, or risk.
• Ability to translate financial calculations and investment workflows into scalable technical solutions.
• Ability to work effectively with investment professionals, analysts, and engineering teams.

Professional Attributes

• Product-oriented approach focused on long-term usability and supportability.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and independently move solutions into production.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Focus on quality, governance, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Education and Experience

Undergraduate or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, Financial Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Eight or more years of relevant experience in quantitative engineering, data engineering, analytics engineering, or financial data solutions.
• Demonstrated experience delivering and supporting production-grade data or analytical products.
• Experience working at the intersection of software engineering, quantitative analytics, and financial data.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

Experience working directly with investment or Front Office teams.

• Experience with orchestration and analytical workflow frameworks.
• Familiarity with columnar data-processing and storage technologies.
• Experience with containerization, automated deployment, and cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with domain-oriented data products, data contracts, and modern data architectures, including Medallion and Data Mesh.
• Experience with Power BI, Streamlit, or other analytical-consumption tools.
• Exposure to AI-ready datasets and AI-enabled analytical workflows.
• CFA, CQF, FRM, or another relevant financial or quantitative designation.

Why you’ll love working with us?

• A work environment where learning and development merge with a collective pursuit of excellence;
• A healthy, safe, fair, and inclusive environment where potential can be freely expressed and developed;
• The opportunity to work in a hybrid environment, supported by flexibility and access to inspiring and innovative workspaces;
• Competitive benefits: Flexible group insurance, competitive pension plan, stock purchase plan, vacation and wellness/personal development days, telemedicine, employee and family assistance program, ergonomic furniture program, performance bonus, discounts on iA products, and much more!

The typical hiring range for this position is between 70,000$ and 110,000$ CAD per year; the base salary offered may vary depending on knowledge, skills, years of experience, and internal equity related to the role. At iA, we are committed to offering a fair, equitable, and market-based compensation structure. Our market data is updated annually to reflect the most current market conditions.