Payments Canada is at the forefront of the Canadian payment ecosystem. Our purpose is to make payments easier, smarter and safer for all Canadians. Every day we are working diligently to ensure your payments are cleared and settled. In 2025 alone, our systems cleared approximately $103 trillion or $411.9 billion every business day If you are passionate about payments and want to help ensure that these financial transactions in Canada are carried out safely and securely, working with us is for you

Who we are

We Are a Public Purpose, Non-profit Organization Situated At The Center Of Canada’s Payment Ecosystem. We Own And Operate Payment Systems That Process Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars’ Worth Of Payment Transactions Every Business Day. We Convene Ecosystem Participants To Discuss Their Multiple And Diverse Interests And Ideas And To Navigate Industry-level Challenges. We Adhere To a Set Of Values That Are Our North Star

Inspire trust, build community and enable change.

Payments Canada - where our country connects

Our culture

With our people in mind, we have created a culture that fosters authenticity, collaboration, innovation and development. We empower one another, make meaningful contributions that not only impact the organization, but our country We develop and nurture meaningful connections that drive innovation in our ecosystem. We are Payments Canada

You need to work here if

- You love working with passionate, ambitious and collaborative colleagues.
- You want to be challenged and lead unique initiatives.
- You want to grow, develop and become a subject matter expert in your field.
- You want your work to make an impact in your community and country.

Come and join us - where payments meet purpose





What we are looking for

The Senior Analyst: Payments Data Intelligence (PDI) serves as the senior technical lead and quantitative subject matter expert responsible for the hands-on design, execution, and validation of PDI’s analytics engine and predictive modeling workflows. Positioned strategically between analytical support and the PDI Manager, this role owns the technical and statistical integrity of multi-rail payment datasets.

The Senior Analyst operates with full technical autonomy over codebases, complex SQL transformations, Python feature engineering, GCP data pipelines, and MLOps back testing suites. This role transforms high-level business queries and scenario specifications into production-ready analytical pipelines, automated data quality controls, and validated quantitative outputs. Acting as a genuine analytical thought-partner who understands the statistical significance and underlying data structures behind feature choices, this role ensures data readiness, maintains the analytics environment, validates model inputs, and supports repeatable workflows across multi-rail payment data (Lynx, ACSS, RTR, and other external payment rails). This individual is a self-directed, highly curious qualified capable of bridging technical execution with strategic product goals,



working cross-functionally with Data Engineering and Product teams to transform multi-source payment data into trusted, production-ready assets.

Technical Data Ingestion Automated Quality Control (Data Layer Ownership)

- Own the technical design and execution of complex SQL/Python scripts to ingest, transform, and normalize multi-rail transaction data and exogenous feeds.
- Design and maintain automated data validation pipelines, schema enforcement, anomaly flags, and reliability score tagging prior to modeling ingestion.
- Build and optimize clean, scalable, and documented multi-rail data structures within Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery) to support ongoing cross-rail intelligence.

Data Preparation and Modelling Readiness

- Assemble and prepare multi-rail payment data (Lynx, ACSS, RTR) and relevant external/exogenous datasets so they are structured for time-series and modelling work.
- Perform data cleansing, normalization, and reconciliation to ensure model inputs are consistent, accurate, and trustworthy.
- Build repeatable, automated checks for model input quality, completeness, consistency, and anomaly flags so issues are identified prior to modelling.
- Establish clean, well-documented, repeatable workflows for bringing new internal and external data sources into the PDI modelling pipeline.

Data Analytics

- Develop an understanding of the payments business to produce business insights, discover patterns and interpret trends stemming from data analysis.
- Lead hands-on time-series decomposition, cross-rail migration analytics, correlation mapping, and advanced feature engineering.
- Develop and code reproducible analytical pipelines that model

📌 Senior Analyst, Payments Data Intelligence (Ottawa)
🏢 Payments Canada
📍 Ottawa