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.

As an Senior Engineer in Private Equity Technology, you will be responsible for building and supporting end-to-end technology solutions to assist with all aspects of the investment lifecycle for the Private Equity business group and Investment Operations group supporting private investments.

Reporting to the Director of Private Equity Technology, 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 to support CPPIB 2025 Technology and Data Strategy. You will see the unique engineering challenges and how your software is impacting the investment activities and delivering long-term value to the CPP Fund for the benefit of 22 million CPP contributors and beneficiaries.

Major Accountabilities

• Design and build robust, resilient, and scalable technical solutions by working closely with peer Technology & Data teams and our business partners.
• Drive software delivery through prototyping exercises to solicit early user feedback and discover appropriate solutions.
• Maintain and enhance existing applications.
• Effectively unit test and perform integration testing on software components.
• Prepare and document design and program specifications.
• Provide operations support on a rotational basis.
• Provide knowledge transfer to team members and support staff through application demos, walkthroughs, and documentation.
• Provide responsive business assistance while adhering to processes required for quality enterprise-level software development and support.
• Help foster a positive team environment and maintain a good relationship with our business partners and peer teams in Technology and Data

• 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, JavaScript, Python, Java, SQL, databases) with strong mindset in DevOps and Agile delivery approach, and a passion to keep up to date in technology.
• 5+ years of experience in designing, building, and delivering cloud-based applications on AWS.
• Solid hands-on experience in cloud-native design, event-based microservices architecture.
• Results driven, effectively manage expectations and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Business domain knowledge and experience in the Private Equity Investments preferred.
• A university degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
• Commitment to CPPIB guiding principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance.

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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.