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Fengate Asset Management

Director, Digital Platforms

Toronto , Canada
full-time

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Drive application portfolio strategy and innovation to support growth objectives and deliver value in a dynamic IT leadership role.

OPPORTUNITY

Fengate’s Information Technology team is seeking an experienced Director of Digital Platforms. This role will partner with the business to shape the application portfolio strategy, optimize existing strategic platforms, and lead the intake and onboarding of new platforms. Acting as a trusted IT business partner, the Director will ensure that technology solutions deliver value, support growth objectives, and enable innovation.

The role will also involve collaboration with IT operations and security teams, as well as providing advisory support to portfolio companies on platform best practices and integration strategies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Application Strategy and Portfolio Management

  • Support the firm in developing and executing a strategy for software platforms and applications to meet the evolving needs of the business and their objectives, partnering with business units to ensure alignment and collaboration.
  • Lead application portfolio management to identify applications to retire, sustain, replace, or
  • optimize, ensuring alignment with business needs and cost efficiency.
  • Partner with business units to define, prioritize, and deliver enterprise applications that enhance productivity and enable strategic outcomes.

Business Partnership and Stakeholder Management

  • Act as a trusted IT business partner, collaborating across business units to understand their strategic goals and technology needs.
  • Facilitate the gathering of business requirements to inform IT solutions, ensuring that application and data initiatives align with business priorities.

Application Selection and Implementation

  • Guide and support the evaluation, selection, implementation and optimization of enterprise applications to ensure value delivery and scalability.
  • Oversee implementation projects, ensuring solutions are delivered on time, on budget, and meet stakeholder expectations.
  • Experience in application architecture, including designing, integrating, and implementing scalable enterprise solutions across diverse platforms.

Portfolio Company Support

  • Provide technology advisory and consultation to portfolio companies on best practices for application and data management.
  • Enable scalable and standardized technology solutions to support portfolio companies' operational and growth strategies.

Innovation and Emerging Technologies

  • Identify and champion opportunities to modernize and streamline the application landscape by assessing and integrating AI capabilities, leading the development of a strategic roadmap for technology advancement.
  • Drive innovation by staying abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and industry standards in asset management.

Requirements

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline.
  • 5-7+ years of experience in IT leadership roles with a focus on applications and SaaS platforms.
  • Strong experience in alternative asset management and related industries such as private equity, infrastructure, and real estate.
  • Demonstrated business analysis skills, with the ability to translate business needs into effective technology solutions.
  • Demonstrated expertise in application portfolio management, including selection, implementation, and optimization of enterprise applications.
  • Experience with industry-specific applications such as Yardi, Argus, Workday, DealCloud, and portfolio monitoring/analytics platforms.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships and act as a strategic advisor to business leaders.
  • Strong project management skills, with a track record of delivering complex initiatives on time and within budget.
  • Proven experience managing third-party vendors, including evaluating vendor performance, negotiating contracts, and ensuring alignment with business objectives and service-level agreements (SLAs).
  • Experience with leading discussions, establishing outcomes, and negotiate paths forward with stakeholders.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with senior leadership and key stakeholders in all departments.
  • Proficiency in project management and successfully delivering complex initiatives
  • Excellent communication and relationship management skills with business stakeholders.

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • Being Authentic – Inspiring trust and being courageous.
  • Focusing on Performance – Being accountable and driving results.
  • Understanding Stakeholders – Knowing the needs of those who rely on you.
  • Building Effective Relationships – Collaboration and communication.

LOCATION

This position will work out of our Oakville or Toronto office and is required to be in office 3 – 4 days a week.

Fengate is an equal opportunity employer, we strive to attract and retain a diverse workforce and are committed to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace. It is a core priority at Fengate to create, operate with, and continuously grow and sustain an inclusive culture that respects and connects the diversity of our team, our clients, our partners, and the communities we work in.

We are committed to providing accommodation for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

We thank all applicants for their interest in this position; however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Fengate Asset Management

Fengate Asset Management (Fengate) is a leading alternative investment manager focused on infrastructure, private equity, and real estate strategies. Founded in 1974 in Hamilton, Ontario, and currently with offices in Ontario and Texas and 190+ team members across North America, Fengate has built success and a trusted reputation with investors and industry partners. The firm currently manages over C$7 billion in capital commitments in support of more than C$35 billion in gross asset value, on behalf of over 50 institutional investors across North America, Europe, and Asia. The firm believes that acting responsibly to its stakeholders and communities is fundamental. Fengate is a signatory of both the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) Diversity in Action initiative and the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles into all stages of the firm’s investment process. In 2021, Fengate established its ESG Committee and its EBID (Equity, Belonging, Inclusion and Diversity) Think Tank, consisting of leaders and employees of all backgrounds and levels throughout our firm, to advance and govern our ESG and EBID objectives. Fengate has achieved Platinum Club member status as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, retaining this designation since 2007, and has been certified as a Great Place to Work®. Over the past year, Fengate was named one of Canada’s Best Workplaces™ and as a Best Workplace™ for Financial Services & Insurance, Inclusion, Women, Today’s Youth, Professional Development, and Ontario, and as one of Best Workplaces™ with Most Trusted Executive Teams. The firm has also been recognized with Waterstone Human Capital’s 2022 Most Admired Corporate Cultures™ award. This program recognizes best-in-class organizations for having cultures that have helped them enhance performance and sustain a competitive advantage. Only 50 organizations are awarded this prestigious corporate culture award each year. AREAS OF BUSINESS1. Real EstateSince 1974, and with 20 years of experience managing institutional capital, Fengate Real Estate has been developing and managing real estate assets across commercial and residential asset classes and the risk-return spectrum. To-date, Fengate Real Estate has completed over 75 property and investment transactions, which total more than C$11 billion of competed value, including C$4 billion under development.2. InfrastructureIn 2006, Fengate established its first infrastructure fund with a mandate to invest in infrastructure investments in Canada. Today, Fengate has invested in over 45 assets which total more than C$25 billion of gross asset value in the social, transportation, energy transition and digital infrastructure sectors in Canada and the United States. 3. Private EquityIn 2016, Fengate launched its private equity platform to provide growth capital and partner with entrepreneurs to create lasting positive change in their businesses by realizing their growth ambitions. To-date, Fengate Private Equity has made seven investments, 20 add-ons and exited three businesses delivering top-quartile performance.

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