Systems Developer- It (Investment Analytics)

Why you’ll love working here:

• Our commitment that equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our work environment and business success, which helps employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves
• High-performance, people-focused culture
• Membership in HOOPP’s world class defined benefit pension plan, which can serve as an important part of your retirement security
• Optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%
• Access to an annual wellness reimbursement program for health and wellness-related expenses for permanent and temporary employees
• Yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars
• The opportunity to make a difference and help take care of those who care for us, by providing a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers
• Learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events and access to LinkedIn Learning, that support employees’ career growth
• Competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team's diversity and mental health (e.g., gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, and newly extended maternity/parental leave top of 26 weeks)

Job Summary:

The IT Investment Analytics team are technical and financial professionals who provide technical solutions for Investment Management that support their research, data engineering, trade workflow, analytics, and reporting. We deliver technical leadership including architecture, infrastructure, implementation, service, and support to drive alpha and investment risk mandates.

We are looking to hire a System Developer who has a strong educational background and technical skills.

What you will do:

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop custom technical solutions and employ industry best practices to build and support Front office applications and platforms
• Actively participate and contribute to Agile/ Scrum practices such as daily standups, backlog refinement, planning and sprint retrospectives
• Design and develop data workflow, data engineering and data mining on time-series market data and trade signals, under the direction of team leaders
• Design and develop data warehousing, data pipeline and ETL for Front office Aladdin market risk analytics

What you will bring:

• Comfortable working in an environment with a high rate of change and, when appropriate, willingness to step outside of primary role in order to facilitate successful outcomes
• Experience in automation scripting would be an asset
• Familiar with Java/C# and SQL, knowledge about Python is a plus
• Passionate about improving your own skills as well as those of your colleagues through knowledge sharing and mentoring
• Solid knowledge of software development principles, practices, and design patterns.
• Experience with data warehousing, database design, data pipeline and ETL
• Effectively communicate with end users who may not be technical proficient and present ideas in simple but effective manner and translate them into actionable workplans
• Able to handle stress and manage expectations from different business/technical stakeholders in this fast-paced environment
• Able to interact with and build strong working relationships with Traders and technology Teams (Analysts, Developers, Coaches)
• Comfortable working in a multidisciplinary team of varying skill levels
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a similar field
• Minimum one year of back-end or full stack software development, preferably in capital market, investment management and/or financial risk management function
• Azure DevOps experience (or similar work item tracking tool such as Jira) would be an asset.