IA Financial Group

Senior Analyst, Quantitative Data Science

IA Financial Group$70K — $110K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in quantitative data analysis and engineering, 8+ years for senior roles.
  • Strong Python development skills for modern data solutions.
  • Experience with tools like dbt for building ETL/ELT processes and data modeling.
  • Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery for cloud-native solutions.
  • Solid understanding of investment workflows and financial analytics.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain analytical data products supporting investment teams.
  • Translate financial requirements into scalable data solutions.
  • Ensure the accuracy and timeliness of critical investment datasets.
  • Improve reporting and analytical processes to enhance investment decision-making.
  • Own the lifecycle of analytical products, ensuring reliability and maintainability.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technology and tools.
  • Hands-on role with significant influence on investment workflows.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams enhancing professional development.
  • Focus on continuous improvement and innovation in a supportive environment.
Full Job Description
Job Description

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.

What you’ll accomplish with us


Investment Data Products & Analytics

Partner with investment teams such as Portfolio Management, Asset Allocation, Trading, Performance, Risk, Research, and other investment groups to:

  • 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.


End-to-End Analytics Product Ownership

  • 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.


Visualization & Business Enablement

  • 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.


Data Engineering & Platform Contributions

  • 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.


Examples of Work You May Contribute To

  • Performance and attribution analytics platforms.

  • Portfolio holdings, positions, exposure, and time-series data products.

  • Standardized investment datasets used across multiple teams.

  • Standardized dbt transformations and curated data marts supporting performance, attribution, holdings, positions, and market data domains.

  • Modernized Power BI reporting solutions and semantic models.

  • Streamlit-based analytical applications for investment users.

  • Data quality monitoring, validation, and reconciliation frameworks.

  • Reusable pipeline and dbt model templates for ingestion, transformation, validation, scheduling, and monitoring.

  • Development of reusable dbt models, data marts, tests, documentation, lineage, and semantic-layer components.

  • AI-ready analytical datasets and semantic layers.

  • Data products supporting research, reporting, forecasting, portfolio analytics, and investment insights.

What could accelerate your success in this role

We’re looking for someone who:

  • 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.

  • Familiarity with AI-enabled analytics workflows, enterprise AI capabilities, or AI-ready data product design is an asset.


Financial & Domain Expertise

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.

  • Collaborate effectively with portfolio managers, analysts, quantitative teams, and data engineering partners.

  • Translate business and financial requirements into scalable analytical solutions.

  • Balance technical excellence with practical investment and operational needs.

  • Experience working with financial datasets or investment analytics is highly desirable. CFA or other financial designations are considered assets

  • 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.


Education & Experience

  • 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.

  • Experience supporting investment workflows, financial analytics, or quantitative processes is an asset.

  • Demonstrated ability to deliver and support production-grade data and analytics solutions.

  • CFA, CQF, FRM, or other quantitative or financial designation is considered an asset.


Nice-to-Have Qualifications

  • 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.

About IA Financial Group

IA Financial Group is a Canadian insurance and financial services company. The company offers a wide range of products and services including life and health insurance, mutual funds, securities, auto and home insurance, mortgages, and loans. IA Financial Group has been in business for over 125 years and has over 5,500 employees. The company is committed to sustainability and has been recognized for its efforts in this area. IA Financial Group is also committed to giving back to the community and has a strong corporate social responsibility program.
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