Job Title: Technical Systems Analyst – (Canadian Wealth & Asset Management)
Location: Toronto, ON
Work Model: Hybrid
Experience: 8+ Years
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Technical Systems Analyst with strong knowledge of Canadian wealth and asset management systems, banking processes, and technology integrations. The ideal candidate will bridge business and technology teams, translate business requirements into technical specifications, analyze data and system integrations, and support application delivery and production operations.
Candidates with experience in Canadian banking, wealth management, brokerage, or investment operations are strongly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
•Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, developers, QA teams, operations, compliance, and vendors to gather and define business and technical requirements.
•Lead requirement-gathering sessions, process walkthroughs, and impact assessments; document user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specifications, and system workflows.
•Analyze wealth management applications, databases, APIs, batch processes, data flows, and upstream/downstream system dependencies.
•Create and maintain technical documentation, data mappings, interface specifications, business rules, process flows, and requirements traceability.
•Use SQL to perform data analysis, reconciliation, validation, testing, and production issue investigation.
•Analyze and support system integrations using REST/SOAP APIs, JSON/XML, batch processing, file transfers, and middleware technologies.
•Support Agile delivery, backlog refinement, solution design, system integration testing, defect resolution, release management, and production deployments.
•Provide Level 2/Level 3 application support, including incident triage, log analysis, root-cause analysis, vendor coordination, and service restoration.
•Support data conversion, release readiness, cutover planning, and transition of solutions into production support.
•Ensure solutions align with applicable regulatory, privacy, security, audit, and operational-risk requirements.
•Identify opportunities to improve data quality, system controls, automation, application resiliency, and operational efficiency.
Required Qualifications & Technical Skills
•8+ years of experience as a Technical Systems Analyst, Systems Analyst, or Business Systems Analyst.
•Strong experience in Canadian wealth management, asset management, brokerage, investment operations, or banking technology.
•Good understanding of Canadian wealth products and processes, including equities, fixed income, mutual funds, ETFs, managed portfolios, RRSP, RRIF, TFSA, RESP, and FHSA.
•Knowledge of wealth management workflows such as client onboarding, KYC/KYP, suitability, trading, settlement, holdings, fees, performance, and reporting.
•Proven ability to gather, analyze, and document business, functional, technical, data, integration, security, and non-functional requirements.
•Hands-on SQL skills for data analysis, reconciliation, testing, and troubleshooting.
•Experience with REST/SOAP APIs, JSON/XML, system integrations, batch processing, and file transfers.
•Familiarity with integration or middleware technologies such as MuleSoft, Kafka, Boomi, TIBCO, or SnapLogic.
•Experience working with Agile/Scrum, SDLC, Jira, and Confluence.
•Understanding of system testing, defect management, release management, and production support.
•Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder-management, and vendor-coordination skills.
Preferred Qualifications
•Knowledge of Canadian regulatory frameworks and industry requirements, including CIRO, CSA, NI 31-103, Client Focused Reforms, AML, privacy, audit, and operational-risk controls.
•Experience supporting business-critical financial services applications in production environments.
•Exposure to data migration, reconciliation, system modernization, and integration initiatives.
•Experience coordinating with cross-functional teams across business, technology, operations, and compliance.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate combines strong technical analysis capabilities with practical knowledge of Canadian wealth management processes. They should be comfortable working across business and technology teams, analyzing data and integrations, resolving complex application issues, and supporting solutions throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
