Company Description
Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization
When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney.
CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:
- Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
- Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
- Accelerated exposure and responsibility
- Global career development opportunities
- Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
- A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
- A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance
If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.
Job Description
Reporting to the Director Risk & TFM Technology, the Lead Engineer will build, evolve, and support technology solutions that enable Finance and Operations departments. You will partner with business and technology departments to deliver on strategic priorities and business outcomes using agile methodologies. The Lead Engineer will see the unique engineering challenges faced by one of the largest global institutional investors and apply cutting-edge technologies to inform very large investment decisions.
Through close partnership with investment professionals and operations, you will see firsthand how your software is impacting trade activities and delivering long-term value to the CPP Fund for the benefit of 20 million CPP contributors and beneficiaries.
Major accountabilities:
- Lead the software development life cycle from analysis, development, to testing, and apply architectural best practices to solve complex problems while driving continuous improvement
- Effectively unit test and perform integration testing on software components.
- Design and build robust, resilient, and scalable technical solutions by working closely with peer Technology & Data teams and our business partners
- Lead technical deliverables; continuously improve upon governance, partner with a end-user to build a deep understanding of their investment and operational processes to identify opportunities to enhance technology experience of departments.
- Drive software delivery through prototyping exercises to solicit early user feedback and discover appropriate solutions
- Provide knowledge transfer to team members and support staff through application demos, walkthroughs, and documentation.
- Provide on-going operational and system support to Investment Operations Applications. Engage in production issue resolution, root cause analysis and implementation of controls to prevent reoccurrence. Provide post-implementation support to measure and ensure business benefits were realized.
Qualifications
- University degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred
- Extensive Experience in Software Backend Development: Over 8 years of robust experience in backend development across various programming languages.
- Proficient in Python Backend Development: More than 3 years of specialized experience in backend development using Python.
- Expertise in AWS Services: Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS services, including Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, and more.
- DevOps and Infrastructure as Code: A strong DevOps mindset with practical experience in using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for deployments, ensuring efficient and repeatable infrastructure management.
- Ability to build strong relationships, influence and communicate effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders, including business leaders, operational teams, and technical engineers
- Ability to quickly understand the technology needs of business groups and quickly translate complex business needs to technology solutions
- Demonstrate understanding of issues relevant to the broad organization and business strategic goals
- Collaborative team player with a willingness to “get it done together” sharing practices and ideas across functions
- Agent of change and continuous improvement in business processes and solutions
- Exemplifies CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance.
Additional Information
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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.
We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process.
Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:
In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Disclaimer:
CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered. CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.
What We Do
CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization with a vital purpose: to help provide a foundation on which Canadians build financial security in retirement. To help maximize the CPP Fund for generations to come, we invest across all major asset classes: public equities, private equities, real estate, infrastructure and fixed income instruments.
With an international reputation as a leading institutional investor, our governance structure is recognized worldwide as a best practice for pension fund investment management. Headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney, we leverage our global reach and on-the-ground knowledge to continually diversify, build and grow the CPP Fund.
Our investment professionals partner with top core services specialists in finance, human resources, information technology, legal, public affairs and communications, investment operations, data management, treasury services and investment risk.
