About the Role
Serve as a trusted, client-facing technical resource who can bridge disciplines and support clients across a broad spectrum of needs, providing technical leadership in modelling, product capabilities, platform, and infrastructure. Improve responsiveness, strengthen technical ownership, and ensure clients receive coordinated support.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted technical point of contact for clients, understand the full context of their needs, provide practical guidance, and coordinate support across modelling, product, engineering, infrastructure and implementation teams.
- Help clients build, implement, validate, fix and optimise actuarial and quantitative models in PathWise.
- Translate business and modelling requirements into practical solution approaches.
- Develop broad knowledge of PathWise capabilities, workflows, configuration and use cases.
- Answer product questions, recommend effective approaches, and identify when a specialist should be engaged.
- Support discussions involving deployment architecture, cloud and on-premises environments, GPUs, high-performance computing, performance, scalability, security, configuration and operational readiness.
- Partner with infrastructure and engineering specialists where deeper analysis is needed.
- Work closely with clients to understand their business challenges and build tailored PathWise solutions and proof-of-concept models that demonstrate business value and platform capabilities.
- Partner with sales and account teams to deliver product demonstrations, technical presentations and solution workshops.
- Confidently respond to detailed questions from actuaries, quantitative analysts, technology leaders and other collaborators.
- Analyse client implementations and guide the refactoring and optimisation of models and workflows to take advantage of PathWise performance, including GPU-enabled processing.
- Act as a main point of coordination for complex client issues involving financial or actuarial models, product behaviour, system performance, configuration or environment dependencies.
- Assess what can be resolved directly and involve the right SME promptly when needed.
- Lead technical onboarding, training and knowledge transfer so that client teams can adopt, operate and extend PathWise successfully.
- Bring together the appropriate specialists, establish clear ownership, communicate progress and maintain continuity from initial request through resolution.
- Reduce hand-offs and prevent clients from having to coordinate across multiple teams.
- Represent the client perspective internally.
- Gather structured feedback and work with product management, development and service teams to influence priorities and improve the end-to-end client experience.
Requirements
- Applicants must be legally authorised to work in Canada.
- This role is not eligible for sponsorship, and we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa or work permit.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in an analytical field such as actuarial science, engineering, mathematical finance, mathematics, physics, statistics or computer science.
- More than 8 years of experience in quantitative analysis, actuarial modelling, data science, financial modelling, technical consulting, solutions engineering or a related client-facing technical role.
- Demonstrated ability to work across modelling, software products, platform architecture and infrastructure topics, with the judgement to distinguish between issues that can be addressed directly and those requiring specialist expertise.
- Experience discovering client needs, framing ambiguous problems, recommending practical solutions, and communicating technical trade-offs, risks and next steps to business and technical audiences.
- Solid understanding of statistical methods, quantitative analysis and Monte Carlo simulation, together with experience applying these techniques to real business problems.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Strong diagnostic skills and a structured approach to resolving complex issues across models, software configuration, performance and technical environments.
- Ability to maintain end-to-end ownership while coordinating other experts.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including capacity to explain sophisticated topics in quantitative finance, actuarial modelling, software and parallel computing to varied audiences.
- Ability to build trusted relationships with clients and work effectively across sales, product management, engineering, infrastructure, implementation and support teams.
- Curiosity and the ability to rapidly build working knowledge in unfamiliar areas, ask effective questions and navigate a broad technical ecosystem.
Skills
- Python
- C#
- C++
- Statistical methods
- Quantitative analysis
- Monte Carlo simulation
- Cloud platforms
- Deployment architectures
- Networking
- Security
- Observability
- Environment configuration
- Containers
- Virtual machines
- Operational support concepts
- HPC architecture
- GPGPU concepts
- Parallel processing frameworks (CUDA, OpenCL, OpenMP)
- PathWise
- AXIS
- Prophet
- RiskAgility
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- More than 8 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- PhD
About the Company
- Aon is in the business of better decisions.
- At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.
- As an organisation, we are united through trust as one inclusive team and are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.
