Data Scientist, Investment Data

About this role

Connor, Clark & Lunn
Investment Management Ltd.
Vancouver, BC
We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Quantitative Equity Team! We are a high-performance team embedded in a top-performing quant fund that manages over $75 billion in financial assets. We are dedicated to the mission-critical operation of our investment engine—a well-oiled machine responsible for generating key investment insights that drive trades. Leveraging data analytics, finance knowledge and cutting-edge technology, we aim to ensure that new and useful data products are continuously ready for research.


Do you love the idea of evaluating and integrating large proprietary data sources into valuable applications? Are you a wizard at transforming ‘messy reality’ into high quality data assets? As a core member of our team, you will collaborate with investment and data experts to tackle challenging problems, and to continuously expand our capabilities in the data space. Based on the west coast in Vancouver, we value mentorship, collaboration, and growth in a supportive and innovative environment. Join us to make a significant impact on our investment outcomes and overall success.


What You Will Do
This is an exciting full-time role for individuals who are enthusiastic about learning the quantitative equity investment management business and excited to tackle a broad range of investment, mathematical, and technology challenges.


You will start with a comprehensive training program, learning about various elements of quantitative equity investment management and our investment process.


You will then continue to a specialized role utilizing data science, machine learning, AI, and process engineering skillsets to accelerate the Quantitative Equity Team’s data preparation and modelling functions. Your specialized role will involve building, scaling, managing and evaluating our integrated data model, in direct support of alpha research.


You will be supporte...