OUR COMPANY BACKGROUND & CULTURE

UPP is the first pension plan of its kind in Ontario’s university sector, proudly serving over 41,000 members across five universities and fourteen sector organizations. Our purpose is to bring greater retirement peace of mind to the university sector by investing with integrity and serving members with care. As a sector-wide plan designed for growth, our doors are open to all Ontario universities.
Together, we’re a team of progressive thinkers and agile doers operating within a fast-paced culture of collaboration and respect. We believe in bringing smart and capable people together to create, solve, and grow with a clear shared vision and values of integrity, inclusivity, ingenuity, and impact. Our culture is intentionally welcoming and purposefully rooted in equity, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation (EDI&R). We believe diverse teams, perspectives, and lived experiences contribute to better decisions and a better workplace.
As a pension plan, UPP approaches investing through a long-term lens to generate and safeguard value. Our commitment to investing responsibly accounts for material risks that impact our investment portfolio to generate sufficient risk-adjusted returns to meet the pension needs of our members.
Join us in building a bright future for our members, our organization, and each other.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

The Senior Technical Analyst, Investments will be responsible for a variety of duties, including but not limited to the following:

• Ability to create solutions from functional requirements.
• Work with third-party development teams and system stakeholders to design and develop effective programming and software changes.
• Responsible for integrating the product with other services through APIs.
• Design and execute automated regression tests throughout QA and UAT phases in each sprint.
• Perform bug and performance testing throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
• Review and provide feedback on technical designs and code developed by other team members.
• Create documentation for reference and reporting.
• Provide on-call or after-hours support as needed to resolve critical issues.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Degree or Diploma in either Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business/Commerce, and/or relevant experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience developing software with Python, C#, SQL, JavaScript, and CSS (or comparable languages/technologies).
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable regarding client needs and technology.
• Understanding of the agile methodology and DevOps (CI/CD) principles.
• Capable of prioritizing multiple projects and still meeting deadlines.

THE ROLE

We are seeking a Senior Technical Analyst, Investments with a proven track-record to help us build and support the ever-expanding Investment technology portfolio. The ideal candidate must be able to deliver smart, scalable solutions that support UPP’s investment operations and long-term goals.
Reporting directly to the Director, Technology Enablement, the individual will partner with key technology partners to collaboratively engage, model, drive, and operationalize solutions across the organization. You will be extremely motivated, hands-on, subscribe to a continuous learning mindset, and apply leading practices and technologies to your work. You will bring in-depth experience in cloud engineering, automation, system configuration and cybersecurity. You also possess deep experience in medium-to-large enterprise-level complex technology environment(s).
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Technical Analyst to join a team of high performing professionals to make a great impact.
This role is based in downtown Toronto under a hybrid work policy, allowing employees the flexibility to work remotely and in-office (approximately two days per week in-office).

The Senior Technical Analyst, Investments will be responsible for a variety of duties, including but not limited to the following:

• Ability to create solutions from functional requirements.
• Work with third-party development teams and system stakeholders to design and develop effective programming and software changes.
• Responsible for integrating the product with other services through APIs.
• Design and execute automated regression tests throughout QA and UAT phases in each sprint.
• Perform bug and performance testing throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
• Review and provide feedback on technical designs and code developed by other team members.
• Create documentation for reference and reporting.
• Provide on-call or after-hours support as needed to resolve critical issues