Lead Engineer, Alternative Investment Engineering

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 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

As the Lead Engineer, Alternative Investment Engineering, you will be responsible for building and evolving end-to-end technology solutions for the Alternative Investment business groups including Real Assets, Private Equity, and Credit Investments. The initial focus will be with the Private Equity engineering group focusing on implementing a deal pipeline and customer relationship management system along with enahancements of other Private Equity analytics and asset management systems.

Reporting to the Manager of Alternative Investment Engineering, and in partnership with peer Technology & Data team and a variety of business departments, this role will have a unique opportunity to work as part of a multi-year initiative transforming our technology landscape in the Alternative Investment space in order to support CPPIB 2025 Technology and Data Strategy. You 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.

To be successful in this role, you need to have solid experiences in delivering scalable full-stack engineering solutions, implementing and managing vendor systems, meeting business needs and aligning with architectural best practices and Technology & Data strategy. You will also need to build a strong understanding of existing processes and how to apply best engineering practices to reduce operational costs, improve operational efficiency by simplifying and scaling up the technology solutions.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Design and build robust, resilient and scalable technical solutions by working closely with peer Technology & Data teams and our business partners
• Implement and support a 3rd party deal pipeline and CRM product including developing custom middleware to integrate with both in-house and vendor solutions in the capacity of team lead working with a group of 3 to 5 software developers
• Drive software delivery through prototyping exercises to solicit early user feedback and discover appropriate solutions
• Take initiative to improve the way we do things, and to ensure that we work smart and build quality into everything we do
• Effectively unit test and perform integration testing on software components.
• Help foster a positive team environment and maintain a good relationship with our business partners and peer teams in Technology and Data
• Provide troubleshooting support on a rotational basis

Qualifications

• A proactive, high energy attitude with a history of implementing quality code and best practice
• Excellent communication, attention to details and relationship management skills, with an ability to naturally influence others and sell ideas effectively to stakeholders at various levels
• 5+ years of experience as technology lead driving full stack development including front-end and backend (e.g. Angular, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Java, Tableau, databases) with strong mindsets in DevOps and Agile delivery approach
• 5+ years of experiences in designing, building and delivering cloud-based applications on AWS
• Solid hands-on experiences in cloud-native design, event-based microservices architecture
• Experiences in front-end development (Angular, micro-frontend design)
• Knowledge and experience working with QlikView is a bonus
• Results driven, effectively manage expectations and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Business domain knowledge and experience in the Credit Investment preferred
• Solid tracking records to challenge status quo and continuously drive system and process improvements
• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred
• Commitment to 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:

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Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Sydney, and Sao Paulo offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.