Senior Data Scientist, Wealthsimple
Finance & Market Risk
CA$151.2-189k
+ Equity
Professional investing services made simple
Job no longer available
Professional investing services made simple
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$151.2-189k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone achieve financial freedom.
Role
Who you are
- Strong technical skills in coding (SQL & Python) and statistical methods
- Strong understanding of data visualization principles and methodologies, including analytics engineering
- Able to build and maintain multi-functional relationships with various teams across the business
- Experience in building end-to-end productionized machine learning pipelines
- Comfortable with software engineering best practices such as unit testing and version control
- Results-driven: keeping things as simple as possible to achieve the product goals
- Curiosity: willing to dive deep into product strategies and business context
- Experience in complex experimental design (A/B tests, factorial design)
- Experience working in finance and risk management domain is a plus
What the job involves
- The Finance and Market Risk Data Science team is a dynamic group of data scientists and analytics developers who deliver high-quality financial metrics and advanced analytics that drive key decisions at Wealthsimple
- We support financial planning, treasury operations, liquidity management, and brokerage risk assessment for products like margin trading and options
- Our team has created a solid foundation for data-driven financial decision-making
- Now we're ready to scale these initiatives, optimizing financial resources and enhancing risk management as our product offerings grow increasingly sophisticated
- As the Senior Data Scientist, Finance & Market Risk, you'll make a significant impact through advanced analytics that support both strategic financial planning and sophisticated risk management across our expanding brokerage services
- Apply advanced analytics techniques to solve complex business problems across finance and market risk domains
- Develop and maintain the finance data mart, with a focus on optimizing data quality, accessibility, and efficiency
- Create insightful dashboards to monitor financial KPIs, profitability metrics, and regulatory reporting requirements
- Collaborate cross-functionally with finance, risk, and product teams to provide business intelligence support for financial reporting, product performance analysis, and forecasting
- Productionize and make continuous improvements to Wealthsimple’s machine learning models, ensuring that models are well tested, documented and maintained
- Build automation tools and pipelines to increase team efficiency and scalability
- Design and execute product experiments to help improve Wealthsimple’s client experience
- Translate analytical findings into actionable business solutions
- Build and enhance data assets that support a variety of analytics tasks across the business
- Believe that simple is better, Occam's razor is your friend
- Take ownership and ship it; release incrementally and iteratively
- Teach and learn from your teammates. We value making others successful
Our take
Wealthsimple is one of a crop of robo-advisors trying to democratise investment management. These companies are disrupting the industry by automating many of the processes involved in investment, removing the need for human advisors.
But while other so-called robo-advisors are focused on courting the high end of the market, Wealthsimple is trying to provide the same types of tools and advice to all users, regardless of the amount they have to invest.
Wealthsimple does have higher fees than some other robo-advisors such as Betterment and Charles Schwab. However, the company believes that it provides a more user-friendly platform, tailored to millennials who will be attracted to Wealthsimple due to its ease of use and social impact offerings.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2025
$386.1m
LATE VC
May 2021
$526.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Retirement savings matching plan through Wealthsimple Work
- Company equity for full-time employees
- Access to Premium Client perks, including personal finance learning & advice and a boosted interest rate on deposits
- Paid parental leave (6 months topped up to 100% of salary)
- 20 vacation days per year
- 90 Days Away program
- Top-tier health benefits
- Life & disability insurance
- Generous sick and mental health days
- Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
- Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
- Gender Affirmation benefits
- Up to $1,500 per year for professional development
- Up to $1,500 per year for wellness and home office expenses
- Employee resource groups
- Social impact hours
Company HQ
Fashion District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Michael Katchen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey and then at Ancestry.com as Country Director for Canada.
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