Senior Quant Engineer
Mackenzie Financial Corporation8 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate AWS-based services using MWAA, Lambda, and Fargate for portfolio workflows.
- Develop and extend GenAI infrastructure to accelerate research and portfolio management workflows.
- Design, develop, and support software and systems for systematic investment decisions across equities, options, bonds, currencies, commodities, and derivatives.
- Implement and support holdings and position management, trade submission, and reporting systems.
- Build and maintain market-data, alternative-data, and investment-signal pipelines.
- Own the reliability, observability, and operational health of production investment systems.
- Partner with investment professionals and technology teams to build tools supporting their work.
- Evaluate emerging cloud, GenAI, quantitative-library, and data-platform technologies and share recommendations through write-ups, pilots, and mentoring.
- Support day-to-day portfolio management activities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in financial services or another quantitative domain.
- A degree in a relevant field with experience using technology to solve quantitative problems.
- Strong interest in capital markets and the systems that support them; prior experience is an asset.
- Advanced knowledge of Python and experience using Pandas.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including Git, code review, automated testing, and system design.
- Hands-on AWS or equivalent cloud experience, particularly with MWAA, Lambda, and Fargate.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.
- Experience with GenAI infrastructure such as Amazon Bedrock or SageMaker, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt orchestration, or LLM application frameworks is an asset.
- Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and help teammates adopt them through technical talks, write-ups, or mentoring.
- High-performing team-player mindset and excellent communication skills.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, performance-weighted bonus, education and career support, and an employee share purchase plan with employer matching.
- Health and dental coverage, flexible family benefits, and short-term and long-term disability plans.
- Voluntary Group RRSP with employer matching.
- Paid volunteer days, competitive time off including 10 wellness days, and WorkPerks discounts.
- Hybrid and flexible work arrangements, with three days per week in the office.
- Inclusive, accessible workplace with employee-led Business Resource Groups and recruitment accommodation support.
About Mackenzie Financial Corporation
Mackenzie Financial Corporation (Mackenzie Investments) provides mutual funds, ETFs, private markets, and institutional asset‑management services for Canadian retail investors and advisors, as well as institutions. It earns fees for managing investment funds and mandates and distributes products largely through financial advisors and platforms. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Toronto, it operates as part of IGM Financial Inc., a Canadian wealth and asset management group.