Job Overview
Location
Remote - Alberta, Canada
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data Science
Date Posted
July 2, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Design, develop, and optimize scalable dimensional data models and data marts using dbt to support Forward Financing’s analytics and AI initiatives.
- • Build and extend Forward’s semantic layer and metrics standards to ensure key business KPIs are defined once, governed clearly, and consumed consistently across dashboards, AI agents, and downstream products.
- • Contribute to the AI-ready data foundation by delivering high-quality data models, metadata, and governance that enable trustworthy Snowflake Intelligence, agent-based use cases, and machine learning applications.
- • Advance the company’s data centralization vision by collaborating with BI, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Product teams to consolidate sources of truth and eliminate fragmented business logic.
- • Serve as the primary liaison with the Data Science team to translate model features into production-ready data variables for training and validating predictive models.
- • Partner with the Data Engineering team to ensure robust, reliable deployment and orchestration of data variables that feed production machine learning models.
- • Collaborate with Core Technology teams on internal application schema changes and data migrations, ensuring rigorous data accuracy validation and minimal disruption to analytical models.
- • Work with the DevOps team to monitor, maintain, and enhance independent, high-performance streaming pipelines tailored for real-time analytics use cases.
- • Elevate team code quality by serving as a technical reviewer for Analytics team pull requests, coaching junior members, and enforcing strict adherence to internal standards for style, maintainability, performance, and best practices.
- • Evaluate, integrate, and operationalize high-value third-party data sources to strategically enrich and expand the overall data ecosystem.
- • Champion data governance and quality across the platform through automated dbt tests, comprehensive data cataloging, lineage tracking, and compliance with security and regulatory standards.
- • Ensure stakeholders and AI systems can rely on accurate, consistent, and well-documented data by maintaining rigorous documentation and validation processes.
- • Operate and optimize Forward’s modern analytics platform stack, including dbt, Fivetran, Snowflake, Datafold, and Tableau.
- • Support the delivery of production-grade data products that drive innovation and informed decision-making across the organization.
- • Maintain alignment with regulatory and security requirements in a data-intensive, fintech environment.
🎯 Requirements
- • 4+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or Business Intelligence
- • 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining production-level data transformation pipelines using dbt or equivalent scripting experience in Python
- • 2+ years of experience with a cloud-based data warehouse such as Snowflake or Redshift
- • Advanced proficiency in SQL and dimensional data modeling, with a track record of building durable, well-tested, and user-friendly models
- • Demonstrated ability to translate complex business needs and ambiguous requirements into robust, scalable technical data solutions
- • Experience working in a fintech, lending, or other regulated, data-intensive industry (preferred)
🏖️ Benefits
- • Annual targeted salary of $145,000–$165,000 CAD
- • Annual targeted bonus of 10%
- • Comprehensive total rewards package including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- • Flexible time-off policy and paid parental leave
- • RRSP match
- • Wellness reimbursement and volunteering days
- • Annual professional development budget
- • Charitable donation match
- • Remote-first work culture with optional access to premiere office locations
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About Forward Financing, LLC
Forward Financing, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, provides working capital to small and medium-sized businesses across the United States through merchant cash advances and short-term loans. The company uses proprietary technology and data analytics to offer fast approvals and funding, typically within one business day, without requiring collateral or perfect credit. Serving over 35,000 businesses, Forward Financing focuses on industries such as retail, restaurants, and services. It emphasizes transparent terms and dedicated customer support to help clients manage cash flow, purchase inventory, expand operations, or address unexpected expenses.
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