Business Analyst, Data Integration & Performance Platform (12-Month Contract)

OMERS; Toronto; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

OMERS in Toronto is hiring an early-career Business Analyst to support a multi-year investment platform transformation, replacing the core investment book with BlackRock Aladdin and building a Snowflake-based data platform.

You will work in the Data Platform and Integration group, collaborating with senior analysts, engineers and architects, and move across Conversion, Data Integration, Data Platform, and Custom Solutions as priorities shift.

Qualifications

• This is an early-career role on a multi-year investment platform transformation.
• You will sit inside the Data Platform and Integration group and support work across four delivery areas.
• Growth mindset, genuine intellectual curiosity, and willingness to build your skills inside a fast-moving delivery environment.

Responsibilities

• Support requirements gathering and documentation for projects across the four delivery areas, contributing to user stories and acceptance criteria, business requirements documents, process flow diagrams and source to target mapping, and building toward independent ownership of smaller initiatives.
• Perform hands-on data analysis with support from senior team members. You will query source and target systems to profile data, investigate discrepancies and validate that what was built is correct, with growing independence over time.
• Participate in design sessions and workshops with investment, operations, risk, performance and finance stakeholders, and learn to translate between business intent and technical design.
• Support delivery, testing and quality activities.

Job description

Choose a workplace that empowers your impact.

Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and experience. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.

We are a purpose-driven, dynamic and sustainable pension plan. An industry leading global investor with teams in Toronto to London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe. We embody the values of our 665,000 members, placing their best interests at the heart of everything we do.

Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, and support the communities where we live and work.

Don’t just work anywhere — come build tomorrow together with us.

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The Opportunity

This is an early-career role on a multi-year investment platform transformation that is replacing our core investment book of record with BlackRock Aladdin and building a new cloud data platform on Snowflake. We are hiring deliberately at the Business Analyst level. You do not need an extensive resume to contribute here. You need a growth mindset, genuine intellectual curiosity, and the willingness to build your skills inside a fast-moving delivery environment.

You will sit inside the Data Platform and Integration group and support work across four delivery areas, working alongside senior business analysts, engineers and architects. The program is fast moving and priorities shift, so you should expect to move between these areas as the work demands:

• Conversion. Conversion of holdings, transactions and reference data from legacy platforms into Aladdin, including reconciliation and break resolution through parallel run.
• Data Integration. System and vendor integrations into and out of Aladdin across order management, treasury, private markets and market data providers.
• Data Platform. Build-out of our Snowflake based Integrated Data Platform using a medallion pattern, including data modelling, data quality controls and lineage.
• Custom Solutions. Design of capabilities that close gaps between Aladdin native functionality and what our investment, risk, performance and finance teams require.

This team also operates the current production investment data platforms, spanning performance, accounting, order management and integration. You will spend meaningful time in that environment, because the fastest way to become useful on the target state is to understand what today's platforms actually do, which business processes depend on them, and which behaviours must be preserved through the transition. That current-state work is a deliberate part of the role, not a distraction from it.

Joining now means working inside a live, complex technology change from the beginning. Navigating evolving requirements, cross-functional stakeholders and real delivery pressure early in a career builds instincts and adaptability that take others years to develop. The capital markets domain knowledge you build here travels well across the financial services industry, and for the right candidate this contract carries a genuine performance-based path to a full-time role.

This team is also embedding AI into how we work now, not as a pilot or a future initiative. We expect every member of the team to engage with it seriously, and this role will have a hand in identifying where AI can be embedded within our processes or used to redesign them.

What You Will Do

Analysis and Requirements

• Support requirements gathering and documentation for projects across the four delivery areas, contributing to user stories and acceptance criteria, business requirements documents, process flow diagrams and source to target mapping, and building toward independent ownership of smaller initiatives.
• Perform hands-on data analysis with support from senior team members. You will query source and target systems to profile data, investigate discrepancies and validate that what was built is correct, with growing independence over time.
• Participate in design sessions and workshops with investment, operations, risk, performance and finance stakeholders, and learn to translate between business intent and technical design.

Delivery, Testing and Quality

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