Tuesday, February 13, 2024

ABOUT UPP

UPP is the first pension plan of its kind in Ontario's university sector, proudly serving over 39,000 members across four universities and 12 affiliate 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 (EDIR). We believe diverse teams, perspectives, and lived experiences contribute to better decisions and a better workplace.

As a long-term investor, we recognize that environmental, social and governance ("ESG") factors support risk management and value creation. As stated in our Responsible Investing Policy , we are committed to incorporating ESG considerations into our investment management activities and we collaborate with other industry participants in the promotion of a sustainable economy and society.

Join us in building a bright future for our members, our organization, and each other.

THE ROLE

We are seeking a Senior Integration Engineer, with a proven track-record of building integration solutions across enterprise applications and data sources.

Reporting directly to the Director, Technology Enablement , the individual will partner with key technology partners to provide consultation and expertise to drive, execute 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, system and data integration, automation, 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 Integration Engineer to join a team of high-performing professionals to make a great impact.

UPP is based in Toronto's downtown and has a hybrid work model (~2 days / week in office).

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

The Integration engineer will be responsible for a variety of duties, including but not limited to the following:

• Standardization, automation, and operationalization of data and system integrations across our environment leveraging our integration platform Informatica Intelligent Cloud Service (IICS).
• Building data connections and reusable pipelines in Informatica across a variety of connection types (SFTP, API, FlatFile, ODBC/JDBC/OLEDB).
• Developing data mappings, validation, data cleansing, data masking, transformation, and pre-processing rules adherent to data platform best practices (Medallion architecture).
• Provide advisory services for integration requests and managing the intake/delivery of data connectivity and ingestion requirements to the UPP Data Engineering team.
• Evaluate integration requirements and develop Proof of Concepts.
• Managing data architecture within GCP services including Google Cloud Store, BigQuery, CloudSQL, etc.
• Effectively communicating technical decision-making processes and solution designs to various audiences.
• Applying SDLC principles (Design/Documentation, Build, Testing) including environment management (Dev/UAT/Prod) with transparency for all changes.
• Active maintenance of up-to-date documentation on integration patterns and processes.
• Own & operate critical back-end Informatica platform services such as agents, networking, security, policies, common utilities, etc.
• Implement tools and design processes that help improve monitoring and system resiliency. Monitoring integration pipelines for failures.
• Automate integration artifacts to source code management system and deployment to different environments with either a CI & CD tool or programmatic scripting.
• Actively monitor and address any issues related to the integration platform and integration tasks.
• Design service-level objectives and report on corresponding service-level health indicators.
• Guiding peers across technology and business on platform development in Informatica best practices
• Research and understand industry trends and their applicability to support operational efficiencies for the enterprise.
• Contribute to UPP's reputation as a respectful employer, partner, and participant in the financial sector.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Diploma, undergraduate or graduate degree in Engineering, IT Management or related field.
• 5+ years of experience as an Integration Engineer or Data Engineer in a production environment.
• 3+ years of experience with Informatica, MuleSoft, Talend, Boomi, Kafka, RabbitMQ or equivalent integration platforms.
• 3+ years of ETL or integration orchestration experience.
• 2+ years of experience in working with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and their data services – (Azure Storage (Blob), Azure Data Lake, AWS S3, GCP Cloud Storage).
• Ability to articulate integration and data architecture designs to technical leadership.
• Experience with creating and testing Disaster Recovery and High Availability integration strategies.

ATTRIBUTES:

• Proven leadership skills, with the ability to drive results while cultivating a culture of collaboration and teamwork.
• Self-motivated with a hands-on attitude.
• A lifelong learner with a keen interest in learning, applying new business practices, and leading technologies.
• A strong communicator both in written and verbal communication.
• Strong commitment to innovation and continuous improvement.
• Ownership mindset.
• Commitment to excellence.

LIFE AT UPP

Do work that matters . We are duty-bound to serve our members' interests, and it's a responsibility we don't take lightly. That's why we've ingrained sustainability in our work from day one—to ensure our members have a resilient future to retire into, both today and for generations to come.

Stronger together . Collaboration is how UPP was born, and it's how we work with each other and our partners day in, day out. No one at UPP is just a number (even if they are excellent at math) and every win is a shared win.

Grow every day . You'll have the opportunity to work on unique, once-in-a-career projects that maximize your skill set and probably teach you some new ones—at any stage in your career.

Prioritize wellness . At UPP, wellness takes many forms. Ultimately, it's about ensuring our people are cared for in the ways that matter to them. Check out some highlights of our inclusive employee-focused benefits program including:

• Work from abroad up to eight weeks/year
• Extended paramedical and mental health service coverage
• Health care and lifestyle spending accounts
• Fertility treatments, paid parental leave, and gender affirmation coverage
• Education Assistance program

UPP enthusiastically welcomes applications from all qualified applicants and especially invites people with lived experience as an Indigenous person, a person with a disability or as a member of another Human Rights Code protected group that faces barriers to employment to apply. Our goal is to create a barrier-free experience for every candidate throughout the recruitment process, so if you require accommodation at any point during the process, please let us know so that we can make the appropriate arrangements. It would be our honor to work with you to adapt our processes to ensure that you can meaningfully participate.

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