Senior Data Engineer, Data Integration

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This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced team, working to support our partners within OMERS Capital Markets, Total Portfolio Management, Treasury, and Corporate Finance, while performing functions to deliver on our pension promise. The team supports investment professionals on a day-to-day basis, as well as ongoing projects to deliver new capabilities, refine workflows, and align to the strategic platform roadmap. The incumbent will be responsible for providing solution design, development & maintenance support for investment applications and integrations. The incumbent will function in a team-oriented context with opportunities for interacting directly with platform teams, and investment professionals.
 

Scope of Position

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Technical Services, Capital Markets Finance, the Senior Data Engineer responsibilities include developing Informatica Data Quality checks, Power BI reports, database stored procedures and functions, integrating data between investment platforms, troubleshooting production issues, and configuring scheduled jobs. The role requires a solid understanding of investment business processes and experience maintaining & supporting investment applications combined with excellent analytical skills, including solution design and documentation, root cause analysis of production issues, testing of application or integration changes, and implementation change management. It requires strong interpersonal, organizational and project management skills combined with the ability to readily adapt to rapidly changing investment and technology environments.

We believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. Our hybrid work guideline requires teams to come to the office a minimum of 4 days per week.

This is a T4 Direct 12 month contract with OMERS with benefits and paid time off (not hourly rate, not incorporated)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate within cross-functional teams to deliver projects and enhancements

• Design, develop, unit test, and implement technical solutions that meet the needs of our internal partners

• Provide support to colleagues in the development of new reports, and the resolution of reporting and other data-related issues

• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance technical processes to deliver efficiencies, and/or reduce operational risk

• Work closely with IT Operations and platform vendors to ensure systems are optimized for performance and efficiency

• Develop and maintain technical documentation for all solutions

• Prepare implementation plans, define workflow solutions, and establish process controls and standards within investment platforms

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to data integration and solutions

• Expand knowledge of investment products (equity, credit, derivatives, alternatives) across lifecycle events

• Stay current on the latest trends and technologies in data integration and solution development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

• 5 years of experience in technology roles

• 3 years of experience with Informatica Data Quality checks and Power BI development.

• Demonstrated project skills and experience in all phases of solution development life cycle

• 5 years of experience developing database tables, functions, triggers, and stored procedures

• Experience with various database technologies (SQL, Oracle, others)

• Experience with ETL tools such as ADF, SSIS or Informatica

• Experience working with cloud technology; Microsoft Azure is an asset

• Ability to solve complex problems, consolidate and organize large amounts of data and information

• Ability to work on multiple assignments with competing priorities independently as well as in a team environment

• Analytical and detail-oriented with a high degree of accuracy

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex technical subjects to non-technical audiences

• Highly motivated to work in a fast-paced environment, and works well under pressure

• A sense of urgency for task completion and for members' experience are essential

• Experience working with investment applications is an asset: trading systems (CRD, Bloomberg), accounting systems (Calypso, SimCorp or Eagle PACE), data warehouse (Eagle PACE), and reconciliation systems

• Exposure with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power BI and Power Apps, is an asset

• Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps and Repos

• Experience with business process mapping, requirements gathering, analysis, design and documentation

• 3 years of work experience in the Finance industry; buy side investment management preferred

As one of Canada's largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our committee and employee recognition programs.