Data Engineer, Investment Research and Data Science

We are recruiting for a Senior Associate to join the Investment Research team in AE-NA.

The Active Equities North America Group (“AE-NA”) within the Active Equities department invests in mid-large market capitalization public equities in North America. The strategy employs bottom-up and deep fundamental research insights to create a concentrated beta-neutral portfolio of high conviction long and short investments.  The Investment Research team identifies opportunities to utilize alternative datasets to inform fundamental investment questions posed by sector specific investment teams. 

Reporting to the Portfolio Manager of the Investment Research team, the Senior Associate is responsible for identifying applicable data and conducting analytical experiments to isolate the drivers of current and future business performance of companies under coverage. The position is based in Toronto.

Position Requirements

Role specific accountabilities include:

• Work with a team of data scientists to develop pipelines for processing large structured and unstructured datasets and optimize for the team’s specific use cases
• Manage cloud infrastructure and process automation to achieve maximum results in a cost-effective manner while continually enhancing the codebase and productionizing processes
• Ensure data quality through a rigorous and thoughtful testing process
• Troubleshoot issues as they arise with systematic root cause analysis
• Generate innovative ideas for new forms of data collection
• Work directly with Investment partners to develop, test, integrate, and implement solutions for transformational initiatives