Intern - Portfolio Engineering, Capital Markets, CMIA (January 2027 - 8 months)
About The Position
We are Capital Markets Investment Analytics (CMIA), an innovation-driven and centralized technology team within Capital Markets at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. We manage a broad and diversified set of portfolios and systematic applications. Development and maintenance of these applications require a unique combination of strong software skills and investment knowledge. We are looking for an intern to join our team this winter for an 8-month term. We are a team of software engineers that work closely with portfolio managers to help implement and support various portfolios and applications. Our applications consist of back-testing, execution, and attribution.
Requirements
- To be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program in quantitative discipline such as Engineering or Computer Science.
- Solid understanding of software engineering concepts and techniques, including design patterns, object-oriented programming, database, and version control systems.
- Strong interest in financial markets.
- Strong motivation to learn about systematic investment strategies and automated trading systems.
- Strong programming skills in a variety of modern programming languages, with a preference for Python, MATLAB, and JavaScript.
- Highly creative, entrepreneurial, and resourceful.
- You should be returning back to your studies after the work term is completed
Responsibilities
- Improve and work on our internal proprietary investment strategy codebase under the guidance of senior colleagues in CMIA.
- The code you will work on directly supports investment functions including but not limited to: proprietary investment strategies, automated algorithmic trading, portfolio management, order management, risk analysis, automated reporting, profit and loss analysis, performance attribution, portfolio analytics, quantitative strategies research & implementation, regression tests, investment reporting.
- Proactively look for areas of improvement and bring new ideas to the team through analysis and research.
- Investigate and attribute portfolio profit and loss to various strategies and factors.
- Work on a variety of datasets (e.g., sourcing, cleaning, visualization).
- Gain experience in one or several asset classes, including equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities.
- Contribute to the development and optimization of our portfolio implementation infrastructure and analytical tools.
Benefits
- Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development, including lunch and learns
- Student led team building events on a monthly basis
- Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
Associate degree
