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.
Know someone at OMERS or Oxford Properties? Great! If you're referred, have them submit your name through Workday first. Then, watch for a unique link in your email to apply.
Under general direction of Manager - IT Pension systems - Analysis and Design, the successful candidate will be responsible for understanding the existing Pension Systems’ architecture and will be accountable for PL/SQL development, Unix shell script development and creating design documentation to be used for development and testing. The successful candidate will support the architects and team leaders, working closely with Product Owners, analysts, designers, developers and testers, utilizing leadership skills in delivering large and complex designs. In addition, the candidate will, occasionally, take the role of Pension System’s project leader or provide assistance to colleagues taking that role.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design complex software components and applications.
Maintain detailed understanding of OMERS pension and financial business, and the various systems and relevant operational processes.
Understand the Pension Systems’ application and Legacy data models. Cooperate with the Data Modeler when the model changes as necessary.
Develop large and complex designs, being accountable for the quality and timeliness of the deliverables.
Development and the delivery of the system changes, enhancements, new tools, modules, systems and subsystems that are to meet the business requirements. Communicate with other team members (Product Owners, business analysts, designers and Quality assurance) to cross-reference functionality back to systems specifications and develop solutions as problems or issues arise.
Developing and implementing design standards, guidelines and compliance criteria.
Performing design and code walkthroughs to assure better quality of the projects’ deliverables. Provide assistance and mentoring to the team members, as well as support to the developers and testers throughout the project lifecycle using established guidelines.
Creating conceptual designs. Working with analysts on the feasibility and workability of the conceptual designs by evaluating technical and business requirement specifications prepared by the analysts to meet the specific business needs.
Create detailed design documentation and design artifacts for specific projects or change requests, which may include UI screens, reports, back-end business logic designs/specifications, and possibly, Entity Models, Sequence diagrams, wire-frame screen prototypes and other various charts and diagrams that indicate the various components involved.
Ensuring processes and standards adherence, improvement and proliferation according to the industry best practices.
Responsible for coordinating and delivering Pension System projects from, and including, creation of the detail designs, to the delivery of the software and deployment artifacts into production.
Accountable for the overall quality and usability of Pension Systems design post-deployment.
Assisting in Testing phase for defect resolution and technical issues
Assisting in environmental and Support issues
QUALIFICATIONS
A team player with outstanding leadership, interpersonal and communication skills. Able to effectively direct the work of other designers when necessary.
University degree (Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics preferred), other University degrees will be considered.
A minimum of 8 years of experience with SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX shell scripting and Oracle Reports. Extensive general knowledge about Relational Database Management Systems.
Able to grasp complex concepts. Excellent analytical and problem solving ability. Detail oriented.
Highly competent with information technology tools and databases. Willing to actively maintain personal skills and knowledge of IT.
Experience with PowerBuilder development tool would be valuable.
Good pension and financial knowledge. Knowledge of transaction/business-process/e-business-request driven architectures and data models is valuable.
Proactive and results-oriented with good time management skills and the ability to work well under pressure.
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.