Senior Analyst, Quantitative Data Science

iA Financial Group•Montreal, QC

4d•CA$70,000 - CA$110,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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, Core Analytics 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. The Senior Analyst, Quantitative Data science, plays a central role in developing and scaling analytical data products used across Investments. This role combines financial domain understanding, modern data engineering, and analytics product development to transform complex investment data into trusted, reusable, and consumable assets. As a Quantitative Data Engineer, you will partner directly with investment teams to understand analytical requirements, engineer scalable solutions, and deliver end-to-end products that support investment decision-making. You will work across the full lifecycle, from data sourcing and transformation through visualization, operationalization, and continuous improvement. You will contribute to the modernization of the investment data ecosystem by developing cloud-native data solutions, supporting advanced visualization experiences, and helping prepare analytical assets for AI-enabled use cases. The role combines hands-on technical delivery with product ownership, business engagement, and a strong focus on reliability and long-term supportability. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building high-quality data and analytics solutions, working close to investment decision-making, and translating financial workflows into scalable analytical products. While the role requires credible financial and quantitative literacy, it is not intended to be a Front Office quant research role.

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 cloud-native platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery.
Experience with orchestration frameworks such as 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 such as: Portfolio management workflows, Performance and attribution analytics, Holdings, positions, exposures, and reference data, Market data and time-series analytics, Risk and exposure analysis, Financial reporting and compliance processes.
Ability to understand investment workflows and analytical requirements.
Ability to collaborate effectively with portfolio managers, analysts, quantitative teams, and data engineering partners.
Ability to translate business and financial requirements into scalable analytical solutions.
Ability to balance technical excellence with practical investment and operational needs.
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.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and drive initiatives to completion.
Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and debugging skills.
Curiosity, continuous learning mindset, and interest in applying technology to investment data and processes.
Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to balance short-term delivery requirements with long-term data and platform sustainability.
Focus on quality, reliability, supportability, and continuous improvement.
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.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with AI-enabled analytics workflows, enterprise AI capabilities, or AI-ready data product design is an asset.
Experience working with financial datasets or investment analytics is highly desirable.
CFA or other financial designations are considered assets.
Experience working directly with Front Office or investment teams.
Prior exposure to portfolio management, trading, performance, attribution, risk, or investment reporting environments.
Experience designing analytical data products, dbt models, semantic layers, or reusable reporting datasets.
Experience supporting internal analytics platforms, shared data services, or self-service analytics ecosystems.
Familiarity with modern orchestration, containerization, automation, and observability frameworks.
Exposure to cloud-native architectures and scalable analytical application development.
Experience contributing to data governance, data quality automation, or analytical operating standards.
Experience integrating AI capabilities into analytics workflows with appropriate validation, controls, and monitoring.
Advanced proficiency in French, as the candidate will be required to communicate daily with English- and French-speaking clients and partners across Canada via email and phone calls.
CFA, CQF, FRM, or other quantitative or financial designation is considered an asset.
Experience supporting investment workflows, financial analytics, or quantitative processes is an asset.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain analytical data products that support investment workflows.
Translate financial and analytical requirements into scalable data solutions.
Manage key quantitative and financial datasets, including performance, attribution, time-series, holdings, positions, exposures, and aggregated analytics.
Ensure critical investment datasets are accurate, validated, timely, and well-governed.
Support modernization of reporting and analytical processes across Investments.
Improve consistency and standardization of analytical outputs across teams.
Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve data reliability, timeliness, and quality.
Enable trusted, reusable datasets that support reporting, research, visualization, and AI initiatives.
Own the lifecycle of analytical products from data ingestion and transformation through delivery and ongoing evolution.
Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements, priorities, operating expectations, and success measures.
Design scalable data models and transformation pipelines that support multiple consumers and downstream use cases.
Ensure analytical products are maintainable, well-documented, observable, and operationally supportable.
Continuously improve reliability, usability, performance, and business value of analytical products.
Apply an experimentation-driven mindset to incorporate innovation in data engineering and financial analytics delivery.
Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term sustainability, standardization, and reuse.
Develop high-impact analytical experiences using Power BI and modern application frameworks such as Streamlit.
Design intuitive interfaces that help investment teams explore, monitor, and consume analytical insights.
Support self-service analytics through standardized, trusted, and well-documented data assets.
Ensure visual outputs are accurate, validated, and aligned with governed datasets and business definitions.
Collaborate with stakeholders to improve adoption, usability, and decision support across analytical products.
Develop cloud-native analytical data solutions using Google Cloud Platform, including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and dbt-based transformation frameworks.
Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines that support critical investment processes and recurring analytical workflows.
Use Docker, GitHub-based development workflows, CI/CD concepts, and orchestration frameworks such as Prefect, Dagster, or Airflow to automate and scale pipelines.
Implement data quality controls, reconciliation processes, monitoring capabilities, and operational runbooks.
Contribute reusable data engineering and analytics engineering components, dbt models, standards, templates, and best practices across Core Analytics.
Improve orchestration, observability, troubleshooting, and operational support processes.
Support modernization initiatives related to analytics platform capabilities, semantic layers, and data architecture.
Help prepare analytical datasets and products for AI-enabled workflows and future advanced analytics use cases.