Director - Total Fund Management, Investment Analytics

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan • Toronto, ON

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As Director, Total Fund Management Investment Analytics, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of analytical solutions that support TFM portfolio construction, funding, and global trading capabilities. You will combine strategic direction with hands-on product engineering leadership to build scalable solutions that deliver transparency, insight, and execution excellence across the Total Fund. This role integrates advanced analytics, modern engineering practices, and product operating discipline to enable data driven decision making at enterprise scale.

Requirements

• Minimum 15 years of relevant application/platform/solution management experience, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience; Master’s or professional degree preferred.
• Excellent knowledge of advanced analytics disciplines (e.g., Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing) and industry leading AI models / tools.
• Proven experience building and leading advanced analytics and/or data science teams.
• Demonstrated excellence in talent management, communication, and delivering analytics solutions within financial services or investment fund management.
• Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the country where this role is located.

Nice To Haves

• Designations in AI, Machine Learning, and/or Analytics are considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute an analytics and AI strategy aligned to Total Fund priorities
• Translate portfolio and funding strategies into scalable analytics and AI capabilities
• Deliver roadmaps that improve transparency, attribution, capital allocation insight, and execution efficiency
• Build and scale capabilities across data integration, visualization, predictive modeling, optimization, and scenario analysis
• Lead aggregation and modeling of public market portfolio data
• Develop AI models and agents / systems supporting risk analytics, liquidity analysis, leverage monitoring, and cross-asset exposures
• Lead cross-functional teams of data scientists, ML engineers, analysts, and BAs
• Establish model development standards, validation frameworks, and performance monitoring
• Ensure scalability, reliability, explainability, and strong model governance
• Manage external data providers and AI vendors
• Oversee budgets, resource planning, and squad capacity
• Partner with TFM leadership to prioritize analytics and AI use cases
• Align solutions to portfolio insight, asset allocation, and liquidity management needs
• Report on delivery progress, model performance, and value realization
• Advise on AI-enabled innovation in portfolio construction and investment analytics
• Build and lead high-performing analytics and AI teams
• Attract, develop, and retain senior data science talent
• Promote accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Champion responsible, high-quality AI practices within Investment Analytics

Benefits

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
• Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage
• Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan
• The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program
• A flexible work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• Competitive time off
• Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year
• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director