Senior Data Scientist, Finance & Market Risk - Remote

Overview

Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. As a Senior Data Scientist in Finance & Market Risk, you will apply advanced analytics techniques to solve complex business problems and drive key decisions.

In Short

• Apply advanced analytics techniques to finance and market risk domains.
• Develop and maintain the finance data mart for data quality and efficiency.
• Create dashboards to monitor financial KPIs and profitability metrics.
• Collaborate with finance, risk, and product teams for business intelligence support.
• Productionize and enhance machine learning models.
• Build automation tools and pipelines for team efficiency.
• Design product experiments to improve client experience.
• Translate analytical findings into actionable business solutions.
• Build and enhance data assets for various analytics tasks.
• Emphasize simplicity in problem-solving.

Requirements

• Strong technical skills in SQL & Python and statistical methods.
• Understanding of data visualization principles and analytics engineering.
• Able to build relationships across teams.
• Experience in building productionized machine learning pipelines.
• Comfortable with software engineering best practices.
• Results-driven and curious about product strategies.
• Experience in complex experimental design.
• Experience in finance and risk management is a plus.

Benefits

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance.
• Long-term group savings with employer match.
• 20 vacation days + 4 wellness days per year.
• 90 days away program to work outside Canada.
• A variety of Employee Resources Groups.
• Remote-first work environment with talented colleagues.