Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Kitchener, ON (NOW HIRING)

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At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

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Job Description:

The Growth and Performance Marketing team within Sun Life's Client Experience Office (CXO) has embarked on a major transformation. As part of this transformation, we are continuously launching and testing new ideas, platforms, and solutions to generate new leads and identify opportunities for existing clients and group members.

As a senior data analyst on the Client Acquisition Analytics team, you will be part of a large analytics community and will be focused within the Growth and Performance Marketing business helping the team by, but not limited to, mining data for business insights, analyzing and interpreting trends using statistical tools and techniques, reporting on business performance, and triaging code and data-related issues.

You will be supporting several key initiatives that are tied to our vision of growing our client base, improving advisor lead conversion, supporting the Head Office lead Evolution program and Channel of Choice, monitoring of our key performance indicators and championing the Retail Leads Data Modernization.

To achieve this, we will be leveraging many systems across Sunlife, gathering requirements, engaging with subject matter experts, and creating reporting. All of this is to be able to tell the story of our clients' journeys and gather insights to improve their experience.

What will you do?

• Work closely with business partners to identify complex business problems to solve and provide data driven solutions.
• Analytic work from requirements specification, data gathering, analysis to presentations in order to solve business problems.
• Work with stakeholders across Sun Life as a subject matter expert in the prospect, client, and advisor data
• Ongoing support to uncover opportunities that will drive incremental sales.
• Develop metrics and KPIs to measure the performance of analytical and data products in the overall portfolio.
• Provide support for annual business plan, monthly sales forecast, and insight analysis.
• Operationalize reporting processes and synthesize key metrics into impactful and insightful dashboards to monitor and assess the success of the business initiatives/performance.
• Perform reporting automation, self-serve analytics enablement, and promote the culture of analytics-driven decision making.

What you need to succeed:

• 5 + years experience working with data (i.e., quantitative analysis experience, including handling, manipulating, and analyzing data, hypothesis testing, data modelling and data visualization)
• 5 + years experience with SQL, PySpark and other programming languages. Comfortable writing accurate, efficient, but complex SQL queries to extract and integrate data from multiple database sources.
• 2+ years of experience with AWS Cloud Services (e.g. Glue, S3, Athena, Quick Suite)
• 2+ years of experience working with Tableau or other visualization tools
• Experience using oral and written storytelling to share data driven insights in a clear, succinct manner.
• Strong partnering approach with a commitment to meeting business partners' unique needs and expectations.
• In-depth prioritization, planning, and change management skills to stay within time/scope of a task in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable learning new applications and processes quickly with minimal direction
• Ability to document work.

What will be nice to have?

• Understanding of predictive and prescriptive techniques (i.e., regression, decision trees, forecasting etc.)
• Experience in Salesforce
• MSc preferably in a statistical, mathematical, or technical field (i.e., computer science)
• Additional statistical programming languages (i.e SAS/R)
• Advanced user of MS Excel and MS Access

Preferred Skills:

• Fierce curiosity. You are drawn to discovering and leveraging new data and taking on challenging business puzzles, with strong attention to detail.
• Understanding business. We have got a lot of data, and you need to turn it into insights, and you can't help with that unless you understand what the numbers mean.
• A passion for solving problems.The most successful data analysts don't just spin data and give numbers; they solve the problem.

What's in it for you:

• We're honoured to be recognized as a 2026 Best Workplaces in Canada by Great Place to Work Canada.
• We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification, the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work, for prioritizing employee well-being, fostering a positive work culture, and achieving excellence in mental health.
• Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health - mental, physical, and financial
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
• As a hybrid organization, you and your leader use business and Client need to choose where you work, at home or in the office

This role requires Reliability Security Clearance. In addition to a law enforcement inquiry and a credit check, as part of your application, the Government of Canada will ask if you lived or travelled outside of Canada for 6-consecutive months during the last 5 years, and you must account for all activities during this time.

Must be able to satisfactorily complete applicable background checks prior to the start date and during employment, in accordance with Sun Life's policies and practices.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

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 are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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