The Company
Univeris, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is a privately held company and is the leader in enterprise wealth management for the Canadian market. Founded in 1991, Univeris has over 75 staff and 15 leading financial services clients representing over 17,000 financial advisors on the platform. It offers the most comprehensive wealth management solution for financial advisors in the credit union, banking, insurance, and investment dealer sectors.
Univeris is a world-class technology platform that boasts a number of firsts in Canadian mutual fund distribution including real-time processing, web access, built-in compliance, plus GIC and segregated funds processing capabilities. Technology innovation is one of the cornerstones of Univeris’ product development strategy and through its Evergreen approach to technology, new features and capabilities transparently integrate into the platform.
At Univeris, when we are faced with new problems we work together to find solutions, we do what we say, and we are lifelong students.
The OpportunityAt Univeris, we are at a pivotal moment in our technological evolution.
We are transforming our industry-leading wealth management platform from a monolithic book-of-record system into a distributed, cloud-enabled ecosystem powered by microservices and advanced analytics. As our Data Architect, you will not just manage data; you will define the future of how wealth management data is mastered, secured, and leveraged at Univeris.
Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Architecture, you will take full ownership of theData Governance Framework, translating it from policy into practice.
You will champion the shift away from “poor documentation”by overseeing the creation of a definitive
Data Catalogand Business Glossary, ensuring our data assets are understood and trusted. You will be the architect behind our strategy to decouple complex data dependencies, enabling us to safely offload processing and unlock high-value capabilities like AI-driven insights and automation, and real-time business intelligence.
If you are passionate about turningdatainto a strategic asset and building a culture of “Privacy by Design”and innovation from the ground up, this role is your canvas.
The successful Candidate will serve as the technical authority on data strategy, modeling, and governance, acting as the primary bridge between Enterprise Architecture and engineering execution. The successful candidate will define concrete architectural patterns, and assist with their application, ensuring the evolution of our data assets is built on a secure, scalable, and compliant foundation. The role will entail:
Strategic Architecture & Modernization: Lead the architectural design for decoupling data from our monolithicsystems into domain-specific services. You will define patterns for data synchronization and consistency in a distributed environment.
Analytics & Pipeline Architecture: Architect and oversee the evolution of ourdata pipeline, ensuring seamless replication of transactional data into our domain service and analytic environments. You will architect solutions with future use-cases in mind, such as advanced BI analytic dashboards, RAG systems, and AI model training .
Data Ops: Collaborating with Platform Engineers to establish Data Ops best practices to ensure data reliability.
Data Pipeline Productization: Champion a “Data-as-a-Product” mindset for our ingestion and transformation pipelines.
You will oversee the evolution of our Data Pipeline and Analytic environment, ensuring these pipelines are not just internal utilities but robust, governed, and marketable assets capable of supporting external integrations and client-facing analytics.Cloud Data Optimization (Fin…
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