Partner, Data & Technology Solutions

About the Company:

Hazelview Investments is an active investor, owner, and manager of global real estate assets. Founded in 1999, Hazelview currently manages over $12.2 billion in total assets across two key investment strategies: direct investments in real estate and investment in publicly traded companies that own investment-grade real estate. We use our global knowledge and expertise to make insightful real estate investments and to actively create value for our team, clients, residents, and tenants. We are committed to a diverse and sustainable future. We see value potential that others have missed. We bring the same philosophy to human investment that we bring to asset investment; focus on the underlying value, commit to maximizing its potential; work at it; be patient; take personal responsibility; share in the rewards. We’re driven to create value for people and places.

Vision:“We create value for people and places”.

Our Core Values:

• Trust
• Ambition
• Collaboration
• Ownership Mindset
• Having Fun

About the Position:

Hazelview’s technology department supports investment management (Hazelview Investments) in addition to the property management arm (Hazelview Properties). Hazelview Investments is an active investor, owner, and fund manager of global real estate assets in direct real estate and publicly traded real estate assets. Hazelview Properties consists of property management teams who support multi-family residential apartments across Canada.

The Partner will be working in various capacities such as application and automation development, data solutions management and development, technical business analyst, project leadership and management, and contributing to technology innovation by staying on top of the ever-evolving technology landscape. This role will need to have the business acumen and project management skills to drive stakeholder communications for successful project intake and delivery, technical prowess to handle the development and administration of new and existing application or data solutions, and the communication and organization skills to implement change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with IT leadership to set the strategy of tech and data solutions and the appropriate processes to maximize the success of business and tech initiatives in alignment with the overall IT strategy and overarching corporate strategy.
• Engage with internal stakeholder groups to identify opportunities for supporting departmental objectives through technology-driven process optimization, actionable data & insights, and/or digital services.
• Demonstrate technical and project leadership when collaborating with internal technology team and stakeholders and drive the planning, design, selection, and/or development of new applications and enhancements to existing applications.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and BI report builders to translate cross-functional stakeholder needs into viable application or reporting solutions.
• Implement and lead a formal data governance approach and increase the maturity of the enterprise data capability and data quality.
• Collaboratively build and maintain an inventory of business systems and integrations to ensure reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Be the owner of several business systems from a technology perspective and provide administrative support. Systems include but not limited to SAP Concur,
• Hands on development and maintenance of internal business tools, automations, and applications (C#, VBA, MS Power Automate) and/or engage/manage 3rd party vendors/consultants on the technical work.
• Develop and implement business systems integration solutions as needed.
• Create and maintain documentation of all technical aspects of developed applications and integrations.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of all components of data solutions from queries, stored procedures, ETL process (SSIS, Azure Data Factory), to report building (SSRS / Power BI).
• Assess and cultivate long-term strategic goals for data warehousing in conjunction with data users, department leaders, clients, and other key stakeholders.
• Provide design and technical optimization for existing data warehouse implementation and participate in the on-going development of new data elements.
• Participate in the research, planning, selection and implementation of emerging technologies that can be incorporated to successfully deliver on the IT strategy such as GenAI.

Job Requirements:

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND/OR 8+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling or data engineering work
• 8+ years of experience with business analyst processes, frameworks with documenting processes and data flows
• 5+ years software engineering in MS full stack development (web or desktop apps) in C# and/or VB
• 5+ years experience developing in Power BI with advanced knowledge of data modeling, dax, and visualizations.
• 7+ years of MS/Azure SQL stack – TSQL, SSIS/SSRS and Azure Data Factory, DataBricks, Synapse Analytics, Data Lake
• 5+ years using Python for data analysis (Pandas, Dask, Numpy, etc.)
• 3+ years of leadership responsibilities, including strategy, project management, and budgeting.
• Proven experience in overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products.
• Proven experience in BI/data warehousing design and development
• Experience in data science and big data is a big plus.
• Experience in MS Power Automate and Power Apps is a plus.
• Experience in administering systems such as Salesforce, Bloomberg, Ultipro, SAP Concur, Yardi Voyager, is a big plus.
• Proficient in building secure architecture using: Encryption, azure key vault, Access control, Network security.
• Knowledge in APIs, web services concepts, standards and JSON, XML, XML Schema
• Finance sector experience and fundamental knowledge of finance and accounting is a big plus.

Qualifications:

• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong teamwork skills to collaborate and build strong relationships with co-workers and internal clients to support development and implementation of business solutions.
• Self-motivated to solve problems and able to work collaboratively with other team members.
• Demonstrated ability to participate in the execution and coordination of multiple projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated success engaging, leading, and supporting various stakeholders at all levels of the enterprise.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely both in oral and written form using a variety of communication techniques and tools to ensure the appropriate flow of information, collaborative efforts, and feedback.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and visualize technical concepts to non-technical people to enhance understanding and drive decisions that lead to positive outcomes.
• Displays original thinking and creativity, meets challenges with resourcefulness, generates suggestions for improving work, develops innovative approaches and ideas, presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention.
• Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, changes approach or method to best fit the situation, able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
• Previous work experience in the investment management, property management, or real estate tech industry is highly advantageous.

Hazelview Investments is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer. If you require a disability–related accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know. We will accommodate your needs as required under applicable legislation. Information related to accommodation requirements will be addressed confidentially. While we appreciate all applications, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. All selected candidates will be asked to complete pre-employment criminal & background checks. Any offer of employment is conditional upon satisfactory results of all applicable checks. We thank all applicants for their submissions.