Independent asset and wealth management firm offering global investment strategies
CI Financial operates a multi-brand wealth and asset management platform (Global Asset Management, Assante Wealth Management, Investment Services, Direct Investing) serving individuals and institutions. The tech stack reveals a firm mid-transition: heavy Excel/VBA/SQL legacy, but actively adopting containerization (Docker, Terraform, ArgoCD) and cloud CI/CD tooling (AWS CodeSuite, CodeBuild) while migrating Jenkins pipelines away. Finance and operations dominate hiring (57 roles combined), with engineering and data teams scaling to support new platform builds (middle office, reconciliation, onboarding automation), yet data integrity and process automation remain top friction points across teams.
CI Financial is a Toronto-based publicly traded firm operating four wealth and asset management lines of business. The company serves both retail and institutional clients with investment management, advisory, and direct investing services. With 1,001–5,000 employees, the firm is running parallel modernization efforts: building a next-generation middle office platform, refining data governance, automating advisor onboarding workflows, and shifting infrastructure tooling toward containerized, cloud-native deployments on AWS. Current hiring (148 active roles, 50 posted in the last 30 days) is concentrated in finance, operations, and support functions, with smaller but active engineering and data teams focused on compliance automation, portfolio operations, and reconciliation systems.
Enterprise Microsoft Office suite (Excel, VBA, Outlook, Teams, 365), Salesforce, SQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, and RPA automation via UiPath. Development: Python, C#, VB.NET, GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins. BI: Amazon QuickSight.
Yes. 18 active engineering roles and 15 data roles across 148 total open positions. Hiring is concentrated in finance (33), ops (24), and support (20), with most postings at mid and senior levels.
New middle office and reconciliation platforms, compliance workflow automation, advisor onboarding systems, data governance programs, pipeline migration from Jenkins to AWS CodeSuite, and portfolio operations enhancements.
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