Principal, Completion Portfolio Strategies

Principal, Completion Portfolio Strategies

Department: Total Portfolio Management, Investments

Type: Permanent

Location: Toronto (Hybrid)

Posting Date: June 5, 2025

At OPTrust, _paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow_ is our mission and business.

When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Everyone at OPTrust - in Toronto, London and Sydney - makes a meaningful impact. Our culture is driven by team members with different backgrounds and perspectives creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone. We work in a fast-paced environment, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community.

What OPTrust offers you- Unique culture rooted in our core values - collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence and continuous improvement.- A purpose-driven environment where we all work towards the common goal of paying pensions today and preserving pensions for tomorrow.- Comprehensive benefits focused on your health and wellness, including dental, vision and extended health benefits, as well as membership in our world-class defined benefit pension plan.- A flexible, hybrid work model.- A dedicated inclusion, diversity and equity strategy with meaningful opportunities to participate, including our employee-led resource groups.- Extensive professional development opportunities and learning initiatives including access to LinkedIn Learning, guest speakers, tuition reimbursement, professional association memberships, leadership development programs, a mentorship program, monthly professional development time and more.- A competitive vacation package with additional work-life balance day

About the role

Total Portfolio Management (TPM) is the group within the Investment Division responsible for capital market investment activities and managing public markets portfolios. Within TPM, the Completion Portfolio Strategies (CPS) team is mandated to internally develop dynamic quantitative strategies and invest in a wide variety of strategies with global top-tier asset management partners.

The Principal will lead the design, implementation, and continuous evolution of the technological and analytical infrastructure that powers the investment decision-making of the CPS team. This includes overseeing the production environment for systematic investment strategies, insuring proper handling and processing of financial data, the monitoring and automation of order generation and the improvement of our execution strategy across asset classes, driving the improvement of returns. The role integrates deep domain expertise in quantitative finance and software engineering to drive innovation and performance in a dynamic investment environment.

The Principal will lead end-to-end activities or concurrent workstreams, including systematic strategies implementation, portfolio monitoring, data management, and performance analysis. They will work on complex issues where analysis of data and situations requires in-depth evaluation of variables without clear precedent, assess investment risk, generate original research ideas, optimize solutions, and defend assumptions in high-stakes decision-making environments.

What you’ll do

Development of Trading Models- Responsible for all end-to-end monitoring of all systematic models.- Have oversight for the daily production process of all systematic models, ensuring smooth order generation and coordination with researchers.- Monitor models in production, proactively identifying operational risks and controlling deficiencies.- Collaborate with portfolio managers, researchers and traders to design, implement, and optimize systematic trading strategies for macro asset classes such as equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities.- Continuously refine algorithms and systems to improve execution efficiency and reduce latency in trading operations.- Lead end-to-end activities or concurrent workstreams, including systematic strategies implementation, portfolio monitoring, data management, and performance analysis

Data Management- Handle large datasets efficiently by developing robust data pipelines for acquisition, cleaning, and storage of financial data from multiple sources.

Algorithm Implementation- Translate mathematical models into high-performance code suitable for production environments while ensuring scalability and reliability.- Responsible for upholding and promoting software engineering best practices, ensuring all code is clean, maintainable, well-documented, and consistently aligned with team and industry coding standards.- Follow best practices for version control, code deployment and continuous integration to enhance team productivity and collaboration.

Infrastructure Maintenance- Build and maintain the technology stack, including computation frameworks and databases to support research and trading operations.

Investment Strategy & Portfoli