About Alpha Group
Alpha Group is a leading global consultancy to the financial services industry. Founded in 2003, Alpha has spent over 20 years bringing together specialists, sector-focused strategy, management consulting, and technology expertise to support the entire client transformation lifecycle. Having partnered with more than 1,200 clients worldwide across the asset and wealth management, alternatives, and insurance industries, Alpha is a trusted advisor for complex change programs.
We now have over 1,180 consultants working with clients across North America, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. In 2024, in recognition of our successful track record and strong growth prospects, Alpha was acquired by Bridgepoint, one of the world's leading quoted private asset growth investors.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Many of our team have built long and fulfilling careers with us, often staying for over a decade. Alpha offers a genuinely rewarding place to work: a meritocratic environment where your career can flourish, and a welcoming culture where you can be yourself, connect with others, and thrive.
As we look to the future, we’re excited to be looking for new Alpha colleagues—individuals who are collaborative, innovative, and ambitious. We hope you will join us and help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.
Why join Alpha?
- Flexibility that supports real life – We trust our team to manage their time and energy in the way that works best for them. Our hybrid and flexible working model allows you to balance client delivery with personal commitments — without sacrificing career progression.
- Inclusive parental leave & family support – We offer generous parental leave for all parents alongside a truly supportive return-to-work culture. Many of our team members transition smoothly back through flexible scheduling, ramp-up periods, and ongoing mentorship.
- Established yet entrepreneurial – Alpha combines the stability of a global consultancy with the agility of a high-growth firm, giving you autonomy, visibility, and the ability to shape your career.
- Learning built in, not added on – You’ll receive tailored training, structured mentorship, and up to 5 paid training days each year, plus on-the-job experience that accelerates your growth.
- A diverse culture and leadership team – We’re proud to have diversity within our senior leadership here at Alpha across North America and globally. We invest in developing all leaders through coaching, internal communities, and opportunities to work closely with partners.
- A truly supportive environment – We’re a meritocratic culture where your impact matters more than face time. We care about results, high standards, and collaboration.
About Alpha Tech Services
Alpha Tech Services is part of the Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (Alpha FMC) group, the leading global consultancy to the asset and wealth management industry. We are a boutique management consulting firm that offers the world’s top asset and wealth managers a competitive edge through our expertise and industry insight. Our team is of a uniquely high caliber and by focusing on asset and wealth management alone we build deep knowledge and experience within our industry. We work with a blue-chip client base, including 21 of the top 25 largest global asset management firms, and work with over 130 clients across the globe. We have our headquarters located the United Kingdom, as well as offices in major global financial centers across the United States, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Denmark, and Asia. Alpha Tech Services represents the technology implementation/business integration arm of the Alpha group, with deep expertise in delivering change and transformation programs centered around Asset & Wealth technology solutions. To clients, we are a trusted partner for creating programs, however, we are so much more to our employees. At Alpha, we pride ourselves in being a meritocratic environment perfect for building a career and meeting great people, as well as a rewarding place to work.
Role Responsibilities
- Define and lead delivery of enterprise-wide solutions on behalf of our clients, managing teams of experienced architects, developers and technical consultants.
- Partner with our clients to translate high level business and technology goals into roadmaps, technology architecture and operating models.
- Present to senior or executive client audiences on content-rich topics, while also explaining industry challenges and complex content areas simply, developing understanding in others.
- Support our clients in defining and delivering data, technology and resource strategy to meet their business goals.
- Use your knowledge of the vendor and tool landscape, both within our client’s technology stacks and the broader market to support definition of the stack across technology and data.
- Define and socialize architectural standards within Alpha and at our clients for your areas of expertise.
- Input to project definition, resourcing and timelines and objectives within large scale or multiple projects.
- Lead project team meetings and communicate effectively with internal and client peers, architects, system analysts, business analysts, project managers, quality control, and across other technology team boundaries, reporting project status as required.
- Lead Alpha’s internal IP accelerator development, across multiple areas of expertise.
- Take a lead in mentoring and coaching team members.
Role Requirements (Skills, Experience and Qualifications):
- 10+ years of experience in data analysis, engineering, or architecture roles, including cross-domain architectural alignment, enterprise integration patterns, and leadership of large transformation projects.
- Experience conducting current-state assessments, producing gap analysis against enterprise architecture patterns and practices, producing target-state operating models, and developing interim-state and target-state **data architectures** to drive data strategy and transformation efforts.
- Experience managing architectural vision against delivery goals, in alignment with business capability models; leading architecture workshops; managing decision logs; producing enterprise-level architectural diagrams and architecture artifacts (reference architectures, domain models, integration patterns); and delivering executive-level communications in the form of transformation roadmaps, sequencing plans, and dependency maps.
- Experience conducting vendor and platform evaluations, assessing key operating model decisions such as build vs buy, in-source vs out-source, and performing architectural tradeoff analysis across competing solution options.
- Hands-on expertise with Master Data Management (MDM) platforms, with preference for modern cloud-native solutions like Semarchy, Profisee, Reltio, Curioum, and CluedIn; experience with established enterprise platforms including GoldenSource, Eagle DM/PACE, and Gresham/S&P/Markit EDM is also valuable.
- Strong data modeling experience, including conceptual, logical, and physical modeling; experience with ERD tools like Erwin or ER/Studio is a plus.
- Hands-on experience leading complex integration initiatives, ETL/ELT design (AWS Glue, Talend, Azure Data Factory, Fivetran, dbt), API-driven integration (async/sync, webhook/callback, event-driven, bulk), event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Event Hub), and real-time data distribution in large business data environments.
- Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and experience with cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric/Synapse; familiarity with modern data architecture patterns such as data mesh, data products, and lakehouse architectures.
- Proficiency in data governance and metadata management, including stewardship models, business glossaries, lineage, and tools such as Collibra, Alation, or Informatica EDC.
- Strong grounding in data quality and lifecycle management, including profiling, monitoring, remediation workflows, and policy-driven controls.
- Ability to design scalable, secure, and reliable data architectures, incorporating best practices in access control, encryption, privacy, and regulatory compliance (e.g., SEC, GDPR, SOC2).
- Experience with data orchestration and transformation frameworks.
- Experience in the Asset & Wealth Management industry, with familiarity of investment data domains, operational workflows, and vendor ecosystems.
- Experience managing data engineering projects using Agile or other methodologies.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence senior stakeholders, manage expectations, and operate effectively in ambiguous client environments.
Compensation & Perks
The anticipated base salary for this role varies based on geographic location and is structured across three compensation zones. These zones reflect local market conditions and cost of labor. Geographic placement is determined by the employee’s primary work location.
Zone A | $196,000 – $239,400
Applies to candidates working in designated high-cost metropolitan areas, including: Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; and Washington, DC, as well as remote roles based in Massachusetts or the New York Tri-State Area.
Zone B | $178,000 – $216,600
Applies to candidates working in key metropolitan markets, including: Austin, TX; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Charlotte, NC; Denver, CO; and Philadelphia, PA, as well as remote roles based in Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Florida, or Colorado.
Zone C | $168,500 – $207,100
Applies to all other U.S. locations not listed above.
Toronto | CAD 216,500 - CAD 299,250
Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and work location. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for a discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package. We are committed to equitable and transparent compensation practices across all locations.
- Competitive salary with annual profit-sharing opportunity
- 401k/RRSP matching
- 25 days of annual paid time off
- Up to 7 days annually for sick leave
- Supplemented medical, dental and vision coverage
- Generous reimbursement for commuting, mobile phone, and home internet expenses
- North America team-wide training and retreats
- Sponsorship towards professional certifications / training supported with 5 days of paid training time.
We are committed to creating an environment where careers and families can thrive together. Our family-friendly benefits are designed to support employees through every stage of caregiving:
- Comprehensive parental leave for all parents, including 8 weeks of birthing leave and 8 weeks of bonding leave.
- Return with Care Program to support a smooth transition back to work after leave.
- Child Sickness Leave, providing up to 5 days of protected time for returning parents.
- Menstrual care support, offering employees time off as needed to manage menstrual-related illness.
- Pregnancy loss support, offering paid time off and resources to support employees through loss.
- Menopause support, ensuring employees have access to resources and flexibility during this stage of life.
- Flo subscription coverage for up to two memberships per year to support reproductive and hormonal health.
- Flexible hybrid schedules help balance work and family commitments.
- A supportive community of working parents that shares resources and fosters connection.
- Leadership that models healthy work–life integration, reflecting our belief that family and professional success go hand in hand.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At Alpha, diversity, equity and inclusion are critical to our success. Our priorities show a focus on fostering an inclusive, equitable workplace where individuals are treated fairly regardless of gender or background. We welcome applications from disabled people and are committed to making our recruitment process and workplace accessible and inclusive for everyone.
- Pregnancy loss support, offering paid time off and resources to support employees through loss.
- Menopause support, ensuring employees have access to resources and flexibility during this stage of life.
- Flo subscription coverage for up to two memberships per year to support reproductive and hormonal health.
- Flexible hybrid schedules help balance work and family commitments.
- A supportive community of working parents that shares resources and fosters connection.
- Leadership that models healthy work–life integration, reflecting our belief that family and professional success go hand in hand.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At Alpha, diversity, equity and inclusion are critical to our success. Our priorities show a focus on fostering an inclusive, equitable workplace where individuals are treated fairly regardless of gender or background. We welcome applications from disabled people and are committed to making our recruitment process and workplace accessible and inclusive for everyone.
