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\' 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.



You will work as a Lead/ Senior Engineer, partnering with CPP Investments\' front office and investment operations departments to design, develop, and support data analytics systems that will help address the disparate analytics needs in the investment lifecycle.

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.

The opportunity:

• Work in partnership with CPP Investments\' trading professionals to conceptualize, design and implement analytics systems that enhance the trade analytics capabilities in Public Markets.
• Gain exposure to trading activities across a wide breadth of financial products
• Be a part of CPP Investments\' Public Markets Technologies, gaining hands-on experience with AWS technologies, employing DevOps and leveraging patterns and best practices defined to deliver scalable, maintainable, and flexible solutions.
• Assist with software solution architecture, manage timelines/deliverables and work closely with other developers on enhancement projects.
• Participate in the development life cycle from start to completion - requirements analysis, development, testing, and deployment.
• Promote Agile best practices through active team participation, knowledge sharing sessions, and maintenance of documentation on team wiki.
• Provide responsive business assistance while adhering to processes required for quality enterprise-level software development and support.
• Work closely with team management to contribute to multi-team initiatives.
• Coach junior team members and provide technical guidance
• Proactively find improvement opportunities to streamline business processes, automate manual processes where appropriate.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

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

• University degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
• Hands-on experience building data exploratory interfaces using Notebooks (JupyterHub/Lab, Spark/Livy, matplotlib, Plotly/Dash, etc.)
• Hands-on expertise with building data pipelines and applications, Databricks, leveraging Kubernetes and Python
• Deep proficiency in Python with experience using Spark, Pandas or PySpark.
• Experience of ETL pipelines, managing multiple datasets and providing necessary support.
• Ability to work in an entrepreneurial environment and be a self-starter.
• Familiarity with financial products including derivatives also a plus; interests in trading, equities trade life cycle with an eagerness to contribute to the systems that support them.
• Strong knowledge of software development best practices and patterns.
• Knowledge of R language is preferred
• Excellent communication, critical thinking and relationship management skills.
• Commitment to CPP Investment\' guiding principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.

Additional 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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