Senior Analyst, Technology Strategy & Innovation (Investment Technology, 12 Months Contract)

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Reporting to the Manager of Technology Strategy and Innovation, as the Senior Analyst of Technology Strategy and Innovation, your primary accountability is to support the relationship between Data & Technology (“D&T”) and Investment teams (Capital and Private Markets). You will be responsible for fostering strong relationships, supporting the technology business partner function, and aligning technology with business objectives.

You will play a key role in ensuring that investment teams achieve their desired outcomes while using D&T products and services. By acting as a liaison between business and technology teams, you will proactively engage with investment teams to understand their needs and challenges, identify solution options leveraging D&T products or vendor solutions, provide continuous support to ensure customer satisfaction, and work to bring innovation to customer teams.

This position requires an individual with strong understanding of technology, investment and/or banking industry business acumen, ability to build strong relationships, a strong communicator and experience of being in a customer focused technology team.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Business Partnering & Front Office Liaison

• Support the manager to develop and maintain customer technology roadmaps with the products and initiatives based on business impact, customer value, and technological feasibility.

• Support the Facilitation of Steering Committees (SteerCos): Support during executive-level meetings with business and technology stakeholders to align on roadmaps, manage expectations, and report on program health.

• Anticipate the technology implications of investment strategies (e.g., entering new asset classes) and proactively propose architectural solutions.

• Bridge the gap between business agility and IT governance, ensuring rapid delivery without compromising stability or compliance.

• Proactively engaging with our customers to understand and document their business objectives, processes, unique challenges, opportunities, and identify ways in which technology can address and enhance their operations.

• Gather and analyze customer feedback and usage data of various D&T services to understand customer needs and pain points

• Assist or lead with the development of recommendations and executive level presentations of various product and services applicable to customers based on their needs.

• Champion the adoption of core technology programs and AI tools to deliver on the D&T team’s collaborative priorities.

Technical Execution & Project Coordination

• Partner with developers to ensure the final build matches the specific nuance of the requirements gathered from business teams.

• Coordinate technology projects, working with different D&T stakeholders to implement solutions for the investment teams

• Support Proof of Concepts using technical and business analysis skills before handing off to core engineering teams

Innovation & AI Strategy

• Identify high-value use cases for Generative AI and Predictive Modeling to automate manual workflows or generate investment insights.

• Proactively engage with business leaders to identify innovative opportunities for technology to drive business growth and assist with the development of business-specific technology strategy maps that drive strategic direction.

• Stay current on FinTech trends and emerging investment technologies to keep the firm at the competitive edge.

• Synthesize findings and present clear recommendations to leadership

Collaboration

• Build and nurture strong relationships with the Data and Technology & Business teams

• Energized by achieving goals in a collaborative environment.

• Prioritize strong and effective cross-collaboration across Data and Technology.

• Collaborate with the Technology Product and Services team to drive our business goals forward.

• Leverage D&T’s technical expertise to ensure our technology programs are not only innovative but also strategically aligned with the evolving needs of the business.

• Share learnings with D&T to drive continuous improvement and operational effectiveness.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as engineering, computer science, business etc.

• 2-3+ years of experience in technology driven roles.

• 1-3 years of strategy, consulting, tech, product management, business systems analysis or other relevant experience within the financial services sector

• Excellent organization, communication, problem solving and prioritization skills

• Exceptional verbal and written communicator. Ability to create presentations and present complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in an environment with competing priorities

• Proven experience in a team where technology & business partner for a common objective

• Basic understanding of business operations, market dynamics, and technology trends.

• Demonstrate curiosity in business processes to challenge the established thinking and help generate new ideas and approaches to problem solving.

• Experience working with AI tools

• Experience or knowledge with different data platforms, data strategy, or data governance is an asset

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. In delivering on our pension promise, keeping us connected to our work and each other, our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come in to the office 4 days per week. 

You may also be eligible to receive an annual Incentive Award pursuant to our Short-term Incentive plan and our Long-Term Incentive plan (if applicable), and to participate in our group benefits and retirement plans – details on these elements of compensation are included within OMERS & Oxford offer letters.

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.

Note: OMERS uses artificial intelligence tools to assist in the recruitment process.