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iA Financial Group* is the strength of a company with a human side, with its over 8,000 employees. Together, we have earned the trust of our more than four million clients and 25,000 advisors who have chosen us for their insurance, savings, and wealth management.
With over $200 billion in assets and half a billion invested in technological innovation, we’re a key player in the financial services industry in Canada and the United States. The secret to our success? Investing in you, one person at a time. Because, for over 125 years, we have believed that it’s by supporting our employees and surrounding ourselves with the most reputable leaders in the industry, we will continue to innovate.
At iA, we’re invested in you.
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, 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.
Role Overview
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.
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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.
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.
· 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!
At iA, we believe in potential and value diverse experiences. If this role inspires you, go ahead and apply – your place might be with us, and we want to get to know you!
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.
iA Financial Group* is the strength of a company with a human side, with its over 8,000 employees. Together, we have earned the trust of our more than four million clients and 25,000 advisors who have chosen us for their insurance, savings, and wealth management.
With over $200 billion in assets and half a billion invested in technological innovation, we’re a key player in the financial services industry in Canada and the United States. The secret to our success? Investing in you, one person at a time. Because, for over 125 years, we have believed that it’s by supporting our employees and surrounding ourselves with the most reputable leaders in the industry, we will continue to innovate.
At iA, we’re invested in you.
At iA Financial Group, we support and celebrate diversity. We strive to provide a workplace that is recognized as inclusive for all, regardless of ethnic origin, nationality, language, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family situation, or physical or mental disability.
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Canadian public insurer serving individuals, businesses, and advisors through insurance and wealth management services.
Visit company websiteCAD 70000-110000 yearly / year
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Hybrid
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