Principal Data Scientist

Questrade Financial Group (QFG), through its companies - Questrade, Questbank, Questrade Wealth Management, Community Trust Company, Zolo, and Flexiti, provides securities and foreign currency investment, professionally managed investment portfolios, mortgages, real estate services, financial services and more. We use cutting‑edge technology to help Canadians become much more financially successful and secure. At QFG, we combine human‑centric collaboration with AI‑driven innovation to redefine financial services.

The ideal candidate will be a catalyst for change, using AI to transform and deliver unparalleled customer experiences and shaping a future where AI empowers our teams to do their best work.

• Health & wellbeing resources and programs
• Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work‑life balance
• Competitive compensation and benefits packages
• Work‑life balance in a hybrid setting with at least 3 days in office
• Career growth and development opportunities
• Opportunities to contribute to community causes
• Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment

Most financial institutions are built to maintain; we are building to disrupt. As a part of the Growth Portfolio, you join a small, highly talented team where Questrade's most ambitious ideas go from 0 to 1. We operate with a specific mandate: to expand our risk tolerance or venture where others hesitate, never settle for the status quo and build the tools that will redefine financial success for Canadians.

We operate on two fronts – pioneering entirely new ventures while reinventing existing product lines. This is a high‑visibility, high‑impact environment for individuals who thrive in startup and scale‑up cultures. The Growth Portfolio operates like a startup, with Questrade as its incubator. You won't just execute an ambitious roadmap—you will shape it.

The Alternative Investments Team is launching new crypto and alternative product capabilities. We're looking for a subject‑matter expert (SME) for Data and AI Engineering within Growth Portfolio who can take us from 0→1 on the data value chain by implementing and maintaining flows into Big Query, build compliance‑grade reporting, establish evergreen dashboards, and enable self‑serve analytics for the team. We are not starting from scratch:
Alternative Investing is already live with Precious Metals trading, and we have existing patterns for shipping data for analytics, creating views, and building dashboards/reporting pipelines. The expectation is that you build on those patterns and accelerate – then push us into the next maturity level. Once the foundation runs itself, you shift into higher‑leverage work: predictive analytics and forecasting that sharpen business strategy, data‑driven experimentation that makes our products better, and AI‑powered automation that makes our operations faster.

You resolve complex technical challenges within the existing data framework, adapt and optimize AI tools to meet evolving compliance and reporting requirements for crypto products.

In this role, responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Reporting & compliance foundation (near‑term):
  Build and operate daily reconciliation and supervision/surveillance reporting flows for crypto, derivatives, and precious metals products and business lines; ensure outputs are reliable, traceable, and delivered via approved secure mechanisms.
• Data integration & modeling:
  Ingest, model, and curate core datasets in Big Query; define metric definitions with clear grains and ownership.
• Dashboards & monitoring:
  Execute the full lifecycle from data pipeline to shipped dashboard. Whether it's a Looker explore for business users, a Grafana panel for real‑time ops, or a custom PyShiny app for interactive decision‑making—you pick the right tool, build it, deploy it, and keep it running.
• Self‑serve enablement:
  Build and maintain queryable tables/views, documentation, interfaces, and examples so internal users can answer questions, explore data, research…