# Sr Data Scientist, Finance, Brokerage & Market Risk

**Company**: Wealthsimple
**Location**: Remote (Canada)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: CA$151K - CA$189K
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Wealthsimple is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Finance, Brokerage and Market Risk Data Science team. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to make a significant impact through advanced analytics that support both strategic financial planning and sophisticated market risk management across the company's expanding brokerage services.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Own the development and maintenance of finance and market risk data marts, optimizing for performance, data quality, reliability, and efficiency.

- Design, build, and document robust data pipelines that generate critical financial reports and metrics for stakeholders across the organization.

- Build, automate, and maintain brokerage reporting and monitoring systems, ensuring data integrity and accuracy across financial processes.

- Partner closely with business stakeholders in brokerage and market risk to launch and support new financial products and model development initiatives.

- Create insightful dashboards and visualizations to monitor brokerage KPIs, profitability metrics, and regulatory reporting requirements.

- Provide business intelligence support for trade and collateral monitoring, financial reporting, product performance analysis, and forecasting initiatives.

- Translate complex business requirements into scalable analytics solutions that address key financial and risk management needs.

- Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices for data engineering and analytics development.

- Mentor junior team members and share knowledge to elevate the team's technical capabilities.

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics development, with demonstrated expertise in data mart architecture, design, and management.

- Strong proficiency in SQL with the ability to write complex queries, optimize performance, and work with large-scale datasets.

- Experience working at brokerage operations or financial services, with knowledge of accounting principles and market risk concepts (preferred).

- Familiarity with regulatory reporting requirements and financial product structures (a plus).

- Hands-on experience building and orchestrating data pipelines using modern tools such as dbt, Airflow, or similar workflow management platforms.

- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS services (S3, Redshift, Snowflake or equivalent).

- Proficiency in Python for data manipulation, automation, and scripting.

- Experience with version control systems, particularly Git and GitHub, including branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews.

- Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, data-driven solutions.

- Strong data visualization skills with experience using tools such as Tableau, Looker, Power BI, or similar platforms.

- Understanding of analytics engineering principles and best practices for building maintainable, well-documented data models.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including finance, risk, and product teams.

**What We Offer:**

- Competitive salary: CA$151K - CA$189K per year.

- Equity compensation.

- Top-tier health benefits and life insurance.

- Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business.

- 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year.

- Opportunity to work remotely.

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- data mart architecture
- data engineering
- analytics development
- dbt
- Airflow
- AWS
- Python
- Git
- GitHub
- Tableau
- Looker
- Power BI

### Nice to have
- brokerage operations
- financial services
- accounting principles
- market risk concepts
- regulatory reporting requirements
- financial product structures

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