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About the Role

Questrade Financial Group (QFG) is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to join the Alternative Investments Team within the Growth Portfolio. This role will be instrumental in launching new crypto and alternative product capabilities by implementing and maintaining data flows, building compliance-grade reporting, establishing dashboards, and enabling self-serve analytics. The ideal candidate will leverage AI to transform customer experiences and empower teams, operating in a high-visibility, high-impact environment that fosters innovation and disruption.

Responsibilities

Build and operate daily reconciliation and supervision/surveillance reporting flows for crypto, derivatives, and precious metals products.
Ensure reporting outputs are reliable, traceable, and delivered via approved secure mechanisms.
Ingest, model, and curate core datasets in BigQuery.
Define metric definitions with clear grains and ownership.
Execute the full lifecycle from data pipeline to shipped dashboard using appropriate tools like Looker, Grafana, or PyShiny.
Build and maintain queryable tables/views, documentation, and examples for self-serve analytics.
Write and ship production code, collaborating on shared codebases via Git.
Deploy code through CI/CD pipelines and monitor services on scalable infrastructure (GKE/Kubernetes).
Engage directly with compliance, ops, product, and business leaders to understand needs and deliver solutions.
Automate recurring workflows and operational load.
Utilize AI to draft pipelines, generate tests, explore data faster, and prototype solutions.
Shape direction and work with legacy systems when necessary, with a baseline of BigQuery, Looker, and Python microservices in GKE.

Requirements

Strong SQL and Python skills.
Track record of owning production data pipelines and analytics outputs end-to-end.
Experience with modern cloud data analytics platforms (GCP/BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.).
Strong data modeling instincts and ability to create stable metric definitions.
Experience building and evolving dashboards.
Production software engineering experience, including Git, CI/CD, and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/GKE).
Comfort operating in regulated environments with strong privacy/PII awareness and auditability discipline.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
High autonomy, ability to prioritize, ship thin slices, and navigate enterprise constraints.

Skills

Data Integration
Data Modeling
Dashboard Development
Self-Serve Analytics Enablement
Production Engineering
Stakeholder Partnership
Problem Solving
Automation
AI/Machine Learning
SQL
Python
BigQuery
Looker
Grafana
PyShiny
CI/CD
GKE/Kubernetes
Docker
Product Analytics Instrumentation/Experimentation (e.g. Amplitude)
Time-series forecasting
Operational modelling
GCP data services (Dataflow, Composer/Airflow, Pub/Sub)
LLM application development
Agent Frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, Google's ADK, Open-Claw)

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-Time Permanent

Experience Level

Principal

Salary/Compensations

$130,000 - $170,000

Benefits

Health & wellbeing resources and programs
Paid vacation, personal, and sick days
Competitive compensation and benefits packages
Competitive incentive (bonus) program

About the Company

Questrade Financial Group (QFG) comprises Questrade, Questbank, Questrade Wealth Management, Community Trust Company, Zolo, and Flexiti, offering a range of financial services including investments, mortgages, and real estate.
QFG utilizes cutting-edge technology to enhance Canadians' financial success and security.
The company combines human-centric collaboration with AI-driven innovation.
The Growth Portfolio operates like a startup within Questrade, focusing on ambitious ideas, pioneering new ventures, and reinventing product lines.
Questrade Financial Group of Companies is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and accessible work environment.
The company's Applicant Tracking System uses AI for application screening, with final decisions subject to human review.

Equal Opportunity

Questrade Financial Group of Companies is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible work environment.
This is an environment where individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
Our team reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and operate in.
If you require accommodation during the recruitment/selection process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.