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Senior Analyst, Quantitative Data Science

Summary

Build and maintain analytical data products and ETL/ELT pipelines supporting investment workflows using Python, dbt, BigQuery, and Power BI on Google Cloud Platform.

• Partner with Portfolio Management, Asset Allocation, Trading, Performance, Risk, Research, and other investment teams
• Develop and maintain analytical data products supporting investment workflows
• Translate financial and analytical requirements into scalable data solutions
• Manage performance, attribution, time-series, holdings, positions, exposures, and aggregated analytics datasets
• Ensure investment datasets are accurate, validated, timely, and well-governed
• Own analytical product lifecycles from data ingestion and transformation through delivery and continuous evolution
• Define requirements, priorities, operating expectations, and success measures with stakeholders
• Design scalable data models and transformation pipelines
• Develop Power BI and Streamlit analytical experiences
• Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines for investment processes and recurring analytical workflows
• Implement data quality controls, reconciliation, monitoring, and operational runbooks
• Contribute reusable dbt models, standards, templates, documentation, lineage, and semantic-layer components
• Support cloud-native platform modernization and AI-enabled analytical workflows
• Diagnose issues across data dependencies, transformation logic, orchestration, and reporting layers

Requirements

  • Strong Python development skills
  • Strong understanding of data engineering, analytics engineering, data modeling, and best practices
  • Experience building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and analytical data models using dbt or comparable frameworks
  • Experience with transformation logic, testing, documentation, lineage, and reusable modeling practices
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery
  • Experience with 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
  • Solid understanding of investment and financial analytics concepts
  • Ability to understand investment workflows and translate business and financial requirements into scalable solutions
  • Experience working with financial datasets or investment analytics is highly desirable
  • 5+ years of relevant experience for intermediate candidates; 8+ years for senior candidates
  • Experience 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
  • Advanced proficiency in French; daily communication with English- and French-speaking clients and partners across Canada via email and phone calls
  • Undergraduate or master’s degree in a relevant field preferred, not required

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in developing and maintaining analytical data products, building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, and ensuring data quality and governance. Proficient in translating financial requirements into data solutions while collaborating with investment teams and stakeholders.

Highest-signal resume keywords

  • Python Development
  • ETL/ELT Pipeline Development
  • Data Engineering
  • Power BI Solutions
  • Google Cloud Platform

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

  • Data Modeling
  • Analytical Data Products
  • Transformation Logic
  • Data Quality Controls
  • Investment Analytics
  • Dbt Framework
  • BigQuery
  • Prefect
  • Dagster
  • Airflow

Soft Skills

  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Problem-Solving

Industry Keywords

  • Investment Workflows
  • Financial Datasets
  • Analytics Engineering
  • Data Governance
  • Operational Runbooks

Tools & Technologies

  • Power BI
  • Streamlit
  • GitHub
  • Docker
  • CI/CD

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