Technical Lead, Portfolio Management in Winnipeg

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of systems for portfolio management and trading, including portfolio construction, rebalancing, order generation, execution support, post-trade analysis, and monitoring.
• Work closely with portfolio managers and traders to understand where current tools, data, and workflows break down, and design better systems that improve speed, accuracy, control, and scale.
• Translate investment and trading problems into concrete technical systems: optimization pipelines, portfolio analytics, risk tooling, execution logic, forecasting, and decision-support platforms.
• Define the technical direction for the team across modeling, data architecture, research infrastructure, and production systems.
• Help build and guide models and algorithms for portfolio construction, exposure management, liquidity-aware trading, anomaly detection, scenario analysis, and workflow automation.
• Supervise and mentor engineers and data scientists, with a high bar for mathematical rigor, technical quality, and production reliability.
• Ensure systems are production-grade, with strong standards for testing, observability, auditability, and controlled change management.
• Define and operationalize figures of merit tied to investment and trading outcomes, such as portfolio drift, execution quality, rebalancing timeliness, operational error rates, and workflow cycle time.

You could be an especially great fit if:

• You are deeply quantitative and enjoy working at the intersection of mathematics, data science, and real-world investment systems.
• You have strong technical taste and care about building systems that are accurate, robust, and extensible.
• You think from first principles and can move cleanly from trading or portfolio problem to model, system design, and production implementation.
• You are excited by AI and advanced modeling, but you apply them with discipline and only where they create real leverage.
• You are comfortable bringing structure to ambiguous problems involving markets, constraints, noisy data, and operational complexity.

Our five values:

• Innovation: You bring new ideas, challenge the status quo, and find better ways of building. You don’t wait for permission to experiment.
• Courage: You speak up when something isn’t working, take difficult stands on technical quality, and act with conviction even when it’s uncomfortable.
• Owner’s Mindset: You take full accountability for your squad’s outcomes. You treat the platform, the team, and the business as your own.
• Client Focus: You place client outcomes at the center of every architectural and delivery decision.
• Winning Through Individual and Collective Growth: You invest in your own development and actively contribute to the growth of every engineer around you.

We believe in innovation and a vibrant culture - work for an innovative, people-first, financial services firm that values entrepreneurialism.

We believe in a flexible work structure - A flexible hybrid work model that empowers you to do your best work whether at home or the office.

We care about your rewards - Competitive compensation including equity program.

We care about your health - comprehensive group health and dental benefits and life insurance at little to no cost to you. We also offer a Lifestyle Spending Account for all your wellness needs.

We care about your quality of life - flexible paid time-off policy with unlimited vacation days, and flexible sick and mental health days.

We care about your family - Paid parental leave for eligible employees with a top-up.

We care about your future - Generous Group RRSP matching and an optional TFSA program.

We care about your development - We offer training opportunities and tuition support year-round.

Purpose Unlimited is an equal employer and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and barrier-free work environment for all employees and candidates. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply and if accommodation is required during any stage of the recruitment process, please contact any member of the People & Culture team.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Our work philosophy is a hybrid model allowing for flexibility and collaboration.

Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada. Immigration sponsorship is not offered for this role.

We may use artificial intelligence technology to assist in screening, assessing, or selecting applicants for this position. Final hiring decisions are made by qualified human reviewers.