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 Engineer in Real Asset 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 Real Asset business group and Investment Operations group supporting private investments.

Reporting to the Director of Real Asset 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 CPP Investments’ 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 20 million CPP contributors and beneficiaries.

The opportunity:

• Work in partnership with CPP Investments’ professionals to build software solutions enabling end-to-end investment lifecycle support including portfolio management, investment due diligence and analysis activities, deal tracking and execution, reporting and ongoing investment operations activities.
• Gain exposure to investment lifecycle for direct and in-direct private equity investments.
• Be a part of CPP Investments’ Digital Transformation, 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.
• 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 product owner and team to contribute to multi-year initiatives.
• Proactively find improvement opportunities to streamline business processes, automate manual processes where appropriate.
• Other duties as assigned.

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

• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
• 1-2 years of practical experience with Python or Java, SQL, and a passion to keep up to date in technology.
• Frontend dev experience in Angular or React is a plus but not mandatory.
• DevOps experience is a plus but not mandatory.
• Experience working and developing cloud-native solutions on AWS is an asset.
• Experience working using an Agile framework (e.g. scrum) is an asset.
• Involvement in resolving production issues in fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of software development best practices and patterns.
• Excellent communication, critical thinking, and relationship management skills.
• Willingness to wear different hats as needs change is a must (e.g. switching among frontend dev, devops dev, java dev, python dev, acting as scrum master, BA work, etc.)  – resources available for you to learn and acquire any new skills as needed.

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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.