Overview of Forum:
Join us in delivering Extraordinary Outcomes™ through investment.
Forum Asset Management is a North American investor, developer, and asset manager with a 28-year track record of delivering long-term value through real estate, private equity, and infrastructure investments. We are a purpose-driven firm committed to sustainability, responsible investing, and making a positive impact in the communities where we invest.
With over $3 billion in AUM, Forum is one of Canada’s most dynamic investment platforms. In 2024, we completed the country’s largest real estate transaction through our acquisition of Alignvest Student Housing, making us the largest owner and developer of Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) in Canada. Our open-ended Real Estate Income and Impact Fund (REIIF) is now over $2.4 billion, backed by a $3.5 billion development pipeline that spans coast-to-coast.
Forum is also building one of the fastest-growing self-storage platforms in Canada, focused on acquiring, developing, and operating institutional-grade storage facilities in undersupplied urban markets.
Our growth is fueled by our ability to identify structural real estate themes and deliver strategies that balance income, impact, and long-term value creation.
Forum is a values-led, high-performance organization. We embrace agility and innovation, and we strive to foster a team culture grounded in integrity, collaboration, humility, and results.
Position Overview:
We’re looking for a Software Engineer – Data to design, build, and evolve Forum’s next-generation enterprise data platform using the Microsoft Fabric technology stack (or a suitable alternative). This role sits at the intersection of data engineering and software development; you’ll build software that relies heavily on data. From ingesting an cleaning complex datasets to developing full-stack applications that surface insights, you’ll architect the full data lifecycle: ingestion, transformation, modelling, analytics, and AI enablement.
You’ll play a key role in creating scalable, production-grade systems that turn raw data into business intelligence, powering Forum’s investment, real estate, and operational strategies. This is a rare greenfield opportunity to shape both the platform architecture and the suite of data-driven tools built on top of it.
This is a hands-on, in-office role with high visibility. You’ll act as a trusted advisor and technical authority, collaborating with investment professionals, business leaders, analysts, and software developers to design enterprise-grade systems and AI-powered workflows that drive measurable business value. Your work will lay the foundation of our long-term data strategy and the future of decision-making at Forum.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the end-to-end design and evolution of Forum’s Lakehouse architecture Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Synapse, ADLS, and related Azure services.
- Lead large-scale data initiatives, migrations, and integrations across diverse internal and external systems.
- Design and optimize enterprise-grade ETL/ELT pipelines for high-volume, high-complexity data.
- Develop AI/ML-powered workflows using tools like Azure OpenAI, Document Intelligence, and Azure ML.
- Create internal APIs and tools to enable self-serve analytics and data access across departments.
- Partner with business teams across real estate, private equity, and operations to identify data opportunities and implement tailored solutions.
- Promote best practices in data governance, automation, and AI application across Forum’s technology ecosystem.
Candidate Profile:
- 2-3 years of progressive experience in software engineering, data engineering, and/or data science, with a proven record of designing and delivering eneterprise-scale, data-driven software solutions.
- Experience within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Synapse, ADLS Gen2, and Power BI.
- Proficient in Python for data engineering, automation, API integration, and full-stack development workflows.
- Strong grasp of data lifecycle management – from ingestion and cleaning of raw, unstructured datasets to modeling, transformation, and visualization for decision making.
- Experience working with big data environments and optimizing pipelines for scale, performance, and reliability.
- Hands-on experience with web scraping and external data acquisition, transforming diverse public and private data sources into structured, usable datasets.
- Applied understanding of AI concepts and practical experience leveraging LLMs (e.g., Azure OpenAI, generative AI models, or document intelligence services) to automate data analysis, classification, or prediction tasks.
- Proven ability to evaluate, prototype, and deploy emerging AI/ML solutions that create measurable business value.
- Exceptional data presentation and storytelling skills, capable of conveying complex technical insights to non-technical stakeholders.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable operating in ambiguity and turning loosely defined problems into working, scalable solutions.
- Background in private equity, real estate, asset management, and/or startup experience preferred.
At Forum, we encourage diversity. We are committed to an inclusive workplace that reflects our belief that diversity is central to building a high-performing team. Forum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing accessible employment practices. Should you require an accommodation during any phase of the recruitment process, please let the recruitment team know. – recruiting@forumam.com.
