Senior Business Analyst, Data Integration & Performance Platform (24 month contract)

OMERS; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A large Canadian pension plan provider seeks a Senior Business Analyst in Toronto to lead data integration and performance platform initiatives. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, designing investment reporting, and ensuring data accuracy. Candidates should have a minimum of 6 years in business analysis, expert SQL skills, and a Bachelor’s degree in a related field, such as Computer Science or Finance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in business analysis roles.
• Expert knowledge of business analysis strategies.
• Hands-on experience delivering complex data assets.

Responsibilities

• Lead Agile and Waterfall projects.
• Gather and analyze requirements for data warehouse.
• Design and develop complex investment reporting.

Skills

Business analysis

SQL

Data warehouse platforms

ETL/ELT tools

Investment performance measurement

Communication skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Power BI

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

Job description

Overview

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 600,000+ 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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This is an opportunity to join a forward-looking team to progress a digital transformation that will enable OMERS Capital Markets businesses and supporting functions to deliver on our pension promise. Our team is at the early stages of defining a strategic roadmap, and the selected candidate will work with internal partners to understand their needs and deliver outcomes, with excellence. This role joins a team on a journey, with significant future potential in a global, sophisticated, and complex enterprise.

Scope of Position

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Data Integration & Performance Platform, the Senior Business Analyst will support and deliver a variety of initiatives to mission critical data and investment performance platforms. The incumbent will ensure that platforms align to department objectives, and the needs of our internal partners by delivering high value solutions and resolving issues.

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 24 month fixed term T4 contract (not hourly, not incorporated)

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in both Agile and Waterfall projects related to data and performance platform enhancements, system integrations, and process improvements that benefit OMERS investment teams, Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Finance
• Ensure that project scope, objectives, deliverables, and timelines are clearly documented and communicated
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements for projects impacting the OMERS investment data warehouse, and performance measurement platform (e.g. user stories, business requirements documents, BPMN, data flow diagrams, etc.)
• Design and develop complex investment reporting (SQL, SSRS, OLAP, Power BI etc.)
• Define and execute business test plans, including performance and integration tests
• Ensure change management principles are considered throughout delivery, including the early capture of stakeholder impacts, end user training, and communications
• Partner with technology teams to implement system enhancements, upgrades, and patches
• Act as a subject matter expert for the data warehouse and performance measurement platforms
• Develop and maintain support documentation, including troubleshooting guides and knowledge base articles
• Ensure data accuracy, integrity and availability by monitoring and resolving production data and platform issues, ensuring minimal disruption to investment teams
• Develop and maintain data documentation, including data dictionaries, data lineage, and metadata
• Develop relationships among partners by supporting a culture of transparency, collaboration, and service excellence

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in business analysis roles supporting data warehouse platforms, including production support, change initiatives and/or large transformation programs
• Expert knowledge of business analysis strategies (requirements elicitation, business process modeling, user stories, source to target mapping etc.)
• Expert knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Expert knowledge of ETL/ELT tools and design patterns
• Knowledge of investment performance measurement and attribution methodologies for fixed income and equity strategies
• Knowledge of the investment lifecycle and data domains for exchange traded and OTC products, including exotic instruments
• Hands-on experience delivering complex data assets, and a proven ability to manage multiple projects
• Experience implementing and delivering changes to leading investment applications (e.g. Eagle, SimCorp, FactSet, Bloomberg, Aladdin)
• Experience with the Azure cloud platform and/or Snowflake are nice to have
• Excellence in all types of communication and facilitation with colleagues at all levels
• Thrives in highly collaborative environments with a focus on team success
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Accounting, Finance, and Economics.
• CFA and CBAP certifications are considered an asset
• Possesses drive, optimism, and a desire to deliver with excellence and dedication to continuous improvement
• Experience with using generative AI tools and prompt engineering a nice to have

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 Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.