Job Description

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, S\xc3\xa3o 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\xe2\x80\x99 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\xe2\x80\x99s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.



The Director, Automation Center of Excellence will lead a team of engineers and analysts providing software development leadership with a specific focus on building and supporting automated solutions solving for heavily manual business processes across all CPP Investments\xe2\x80\x99 business departments, leveraging RPA and Workflow business process automation tools.

Reporting to the Managing Director, Enterprise Systems, you will have end to end accountabilities for all aspects of technology solution implementation working in partnership with the Product Owner.

Role Specific Accountabilities:

• Provide technical oversight and lead the software development life cycle from analysis, development, to testing, and apply architectural best practices to solve complex problems while driving continuous improvement.
• Partner with the product owner to detail the product roadmap and acts as a driver of \xe2\x80\x9chow\xe2\x80\x9d the business capabilities should be delivered by providing technology architecture solutions and drive implementation.
• Partner with product owner to translate strategic product priorities and directions into integrated team specific implementation tasks and manage product technical inter-dependencies with other upstream/downstream teams.
• Lead all technical deliverables; continuously improve upon governance, transparency, and communication on priorities and influence business architecture to identify process improvements.
• Develop strong partnerships with a variety of different end-users and build a deep understanding of their investment and operational processes to identify opportunities to enhance technology experience of departments.
• Build, coach and retain a team of talented technology professionals focused on meeting the current and future business needs
• Manage vendor relationships for both products and external resourcing needs to ensure efficiency and budgetary needs are met while delivering maximum business value.

Qualifications

If you possess the following, we\'d like to hear from you:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or any other quantitative field
• 8+ years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in technology with experience in software development
• People leadership experience and strong knowledge of software development best practices
• Knowledge and working experience of business process automation and/or tools such as UiPath and Mendix would be an asset
• Ability to quickly understand the technology needs of various investment strategies and quickly translating complex business needs to technology solutions
• Ability to build strong relationships, influence and communicate effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders, including business leaders, operational staff, and technical engineers
• Ability to handle changing problems and solve for \xe2\x80\x98how\xe2\x80\x99 in support of the business department needs.
• Experience working in an Agile and product delivery environment would be an asset
• Adaptable to new technologies and challenges not previously encountered
• Proven project management experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to work with both technical and business users
• Self-motivated with acute attention to detail
• Innovative and proactive
• Exemplify CPP Investments\xe2\x80\x99 Guiding Principles of Integrity, High Performance and Partnership

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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.

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, Sydney and Hong Kong 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.

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