We have a lot to be proud of at Nicola Wealth. Our sophisticated financial planning, our diversified private investment funds and their exceptional performance, our 98% client retention rate and our award-winning culture, combine to position us as a national leader in wealth management. Recognized as a Best Managed Company and one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are dedicated to upholding our firm’s values through this phase of significant growth.
By bringing together smart, dedicated and supportive colleagues from diverse backgrounds, we deliver extraordinary client service in a values-driven work environment. The collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit we were founded on provides the opportunity for you to make a real impact and build a rewarding career. We are passionate about our business, our culture and investing deeply in your growth and development to build for the future. If you have this same drive, then let’s talk!
The SimCorp Dimension Platform & Integration Administrator is responsible for supporting the operational stability, administration, and controlled evolution of Nicola Wealth’s SimCorp Dimension platform and its connected integrations. This role ensures secure, reliable, and auditable processing across investment operations by monitoring platform health, managing technical integrations, supporting controlled deployments, and maintaining effective access and environment governance.
Working closely with Investment Management Operations, external custodians, counterparties, vendors, and SimCorp Support, this role plays a critical part in maintaining platform integrity, resolving integration and connectivity issues, supporting upgrades and releases, and enabling continuous improvement across operational workflows, automation, and service quality.
Core Responsibilities:- Monitor the stability, performance, capacity, and overall health of SimCorp Dimension environments, including development, testing, and production. Support environment management, system sizing, platform availability, and operational continuity.
- Manage and monitor technical integrations between SimCorp and internal and external systems, including FIX, SFTP, DFS, APIs, trading platforms, custodians, counterparties, downstream reporting, and other data or service providers.
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve communication server issues, connectivity failures, integration defects, file transmission issues, workflow breaks, and data pipeline disruptions impacting operational workflows.
- Govern environment and deployment processes to ensure system configuration changes, updates, and enhancements are promoted in accordance with change management standards and operational controls.
- Support system configuration changes, unit testing, deployment activities, data migrations, and environment setup to ensure updates are implemented accurately and with appropriate validation.
- Monitor automated workflows, job scheduling, queues, and data processing activities. Adjust routing rules, schedules, and workflow configurations as operational processes evolve.
- Implement and maintain user access controls, platform security policies, and related governance processes across SimCorp and connected platforms, ensuring appropriate access, segregation of duties, and auditability.
- Plan, coordinate, and support SimCorp upgrades, environment maintenance, technical releases, and platform improvements in partnership with internal Technology teams, SimCorp Support, and other vendors.
- Partner with Investment Management Operations teams to resolve operational issues, coordinate system or configuration changes, and support evolving business needs.
- Work with custodians, counterparties, trading platforms, SimCorp Support, technology vendors, and external data or service providers to resolve file delivery, connectivity, platform compatibility, and technical integration issues.
- Identify and implement improvements to integration reliability, workflow automation, monitoring, and operational support processes to enhance platform performance and service quality.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 5 years experience administering, supporting, or governing enterprise investment management platforms; direct experience with and strong understanding of SimCorp Dimension required.
- Strong understanding of platform administration, environment management, configuration management, and controlled deployment practices.
- Experience supporting technical integrations, data feeds, file-based interfaces, APIs, SFTP, FIX connectivity, or other system-to-system communication protocols.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot connectivity failures, integration defects, communication server issues, data pipeline disruptions, and automated workflow failures.
- Experience working within change management, incident management, release management, and environment governance processes.
- Familiarity with user access management, security controls, auditability, and system administration best practices.
- General knowledge of investment operations workflows, including trading, settlement, reconciliation, corporate actions, portfolio management, and reporting, is an asset.
- Strong communication, documentation, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively with internal business and technology teams, external vendors, custodians, counterparties, and platform support providers.
This position comes with a competitive base salary hiring range of $105,000 - $125,000, dependent on experience, skills, qualifications and internal equity.
At Nicola Wealth, our people grow our business, delight our clients, and live our values every day. Our comprehensive compensation and benefits package reflects our appreciation for this commitment. Whether it’s participating in our profit sharing and benefit programs on day one, or the opportunity to participate in our share ownership program, our people are able to go beyond a conventional salary and bonus structure. To learn more about our complete package, visit: www.nicolawealth.com/total-rewards.
This role is a current vacancy within Nicola Wealth.
Please include both a cover letter and resume in support of your application. We are an inclusive, equal opportunity employer. For more information about this and other roles: www.nicolawealth.com/careers.
It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. Should you require reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process please contact us at [email protected] and we will work with you to meet your needs. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Nicola Wealth policies.
Thank you for your interest in a career with Nicola Wealth!
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Finance, or a related field
- Minimum 5 years experience administering, supporting, or governing enterprise investment management platforms
- Direct experience with and strong understanding of SimCorp Dimension
- Strong understanding of platform administration, environment management, configuration management, and controlled deployment practices
- Experience supporting technical integrations, data feeds, file-based interfaces, APIs, SFTP, FIX connectivity, or other system-to-system communication protocols
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot connectivity failures, integration defects, and workflow failures
- Experience working within change management, incident management, release management, and environment governance processes
- Familiarity with user access management, security controls, auditability, and system administration best practices
- General knowledge of investment operations workflows is an asset
- Strong communication, documentation, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills
What We Do
Nicola Wealth is a full-service Wealth Management firm with offices across Canada. More than a financial planning firm, we offer sophisticated financial advice and investment management to affluent families, foundations and institutions across North America
