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About the Role

This role is part of a dedicated Agile team and will be accountable for delivering investment data products through a highly dynamic and fast-paced solution development process. The Associate Director will work closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, architects, and development teams to transform business concepts and data requirements into scalable solutions. This role is accountable for balancing business priorities, user needs, data quality requirements, governance objectives, and technology considerations while ensuring successful business outcomes. The Associate Director will combine product ownership responsibilities with hands-on data analysis and domain expertise to define, develop, and continuously improve investment data products used across the organization.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the strategy, roadmap, and ongoing evolution of investment data products by translating business priorities into scalable solutions that improve decision-making, analytics, operational efficiency, and information management.
Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand business processes, challenges, and data requirements, translating needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, data mappings, process documentation, and solution designs.
Perform data analysis, profiling, reconciliation, validation, and root-cause investigations across investment and accounting data domains, while collaborating with engineers and architects to design scalable data models, transformation rules, and reusable data products.
Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring delivery teams have clear requirements, priorities, and expected outcomes, while actively supporting Agile ceremonies, testing, user acceptance activities, and release readiness.
Support enterprise data governance, quality, and control initiatives by establishing and monitoring data standards, testing practices, lineage, metadata, and business glossary requirements.
Build strong relationships with stakeholders by communicating product priorities, roadmaps, progress, risks, and outcomes, while supporting change management and user adoption activities.
Contribute to the definition, tracking, and achievement of product and initiative objectives and key results (OKRs), measuring success through adoption, data quality, operational efficiency, and business outcomes.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in Asset Management, Capital Markets, Investment Operations, Investment Technology, or a related field, with a strong understanding of investment products, portfolios, transactions, performance, benchmarks, market data, reference data, and investment lifecycle processes.
Demonstrated experience partnering with business stakeholders in data-intensive environments, including business analysis, requirements gathering, process improvement, data profiling, data mapping, testing, and solution delivery.
Strong knowledge of enterprise data management concepts, including data governance, data quality, data modeling, architecture, system integration, investment data platforms, and complex datasets, supported by advanced SQL and analytical skills.
Experience working as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or similar role within Agile delivery environments, with responsibility for backlog management, prioritization, user story development, and iterative solution delivery.
Proven ability to independently solve complex business and technology challenges, manage competing priorities, navigate ambiguity, influence stakeholders, and translate business needs into actionable solutions and measurable outcomes.
Experience with investment systems and enterprise data platforms is considered an asset.

Skills

SQL
Data Analysis
Product Ownership
Business Analysis
Agile Methodologies

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Associate Director
6+ years

Salary/Compensations

80,000 - 128,000

Benefits

Generous vacation and sick time
Market-leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top up program
Partially-paid sabbatical program
Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer-paid match
Wellness programs

About the Company

SLC Management is a growing global asset management firm providing innovative and diversified investment solutions to institutional investors.
We are breaking new ground with a full spectrum of solutions for a growing institutional client base of more than 1400 organizations.
Our history of organic and strategic growth reflects this commitment with over CA$422/US$304 billion in assets under management (AUM).
As a subsidiary of Sun Life, we are aligned with one of the world’s leading financial services companies, and benefit from the stability and strength of that relationship.
We are a performance-driven organization with a deliberate focus on fostering a development-focused, inclusive culture revolving around our Core Values of being client obsessed, valuing each other, acting with speed and having an owner’s mindset.
As part of our team, you play a role in fulfilling our purpose and making a difference.
We offer a rewarding work environment that is filled with opportunity for growth where you will be empowered to meet the challenges of a highly competitive landscape.
Visit our website to learn more and for the most up to date AUM information.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees feel they belong, are supported and empowered to thrive.
We are dedicated to building teams with varied experiences, backgrounds perspectives and ideas that benefit our colleagues, clients, and the communities where we operate.
We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.
We will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations.
Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.
We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position.
Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.