Associate Director, Investment Management Data - SLC Management

Sun Life Financial, Inc.

$80K — $128K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in Asset Management, Capital Markets, or related fields.
  • Strong understanding of investment products, portfolios, and lifecycle processes.
  • Experience in data analysis, profiling, and solution delivery in data-intensive environments.
  • Knowledge of enterprise data management concepts and strong SQL skills.
  • Prior experience as a Product Owner or Business/Data Analyst in Agile environments.
  • Experience with investment systems and enterprise data platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the strategy and evolution of investment data products.
  • Partner with stakeholders to gather and translate business requirements into actionable deliverables.
  • Perform data analysis and collaborate on scalable data models and transformation rules.
  • Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring clarity in requirements and expected outcomes.
  • Support data governance initiatives by establishing and monitoring data standards.
  • Communicate product priorities and support change management and user adoption.
  • Track and measure product objectives and success metrics through data quality and operational efficiency.

Benefits

  • Generous vacation and sick time plus market-leading maternity and parental leave top-ups.
  • Employer-paid pension and savings programs to enhance financial security.
  • Flexible work environment with a collaborative and inclusive culture.
  • Career growth opportunities with extensive networking potential.
  • Award-winning workplace culture recognized for mental health and employee satisfaction.
Full Job Description
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 #WeWinAsATeam
  • 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


SLC Management is a regulated business, and this means that there are certain financial reporting and trading preclearance requirements for all employees. Successful candidates will be required to declare personal investment accounts and securities investments as well as seek preclearance on future transactions including those of household members.

Job Category:

Business Analysis - Systems
Salary Range
80,000/80 000 - 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.

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