Director, Data Platforms, Reference, Total Fund Management & Risk

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable for generations of working and retired Canadians.

CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.

CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:

• Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
• A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
• An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here. 

Job Description

Reporting to the Managing Director, Data Platforms, the Director, Reference, Total Fund Management and Risk, Data Platforms leads the design and implementation of CPP Investments' data platforms, focusing on reference data management, total fund management, and risk analytics. In this role, you will lead a team of data engineers to build and operate high-quality reference data products across domains like Party, Security, Corporate Actions, and Pricing, ensuring stringent SLAs and fostering continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

You’ll be accountable for designing and implementing the end-to-end data platform needs from managing foundational processing and data storage, to building and maintaining scalable pipelines, to developing analytical tools, and enterprise reporting applications to support various usecases.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide technical oversight to a team of diverse data engineers/technologists to drive design and implementation of transformational data initiatives, plan team activities and priorities, provide coaching to technical aspect of work.
• Applies knowledge, leadership experience and be the data engineering technical leader to drive design and implement appropriate data architectures, infrastructure, data ingestion pipelines and enablement tools, processes, and controls to meet business needs and to help team to scale.
• Seeks and incorporates diverse perspectives to guide the team to resolve complex multi-dimensional problems and enhance overall business process or program value
• Drive team engagement, performance management, provide feedback and opportunities to help team members grow and achieve their professional development goals.
• Work collaboratively with business stakeholders, senior IT management, Data Engineering Teams, Data Architecture, Data solutions, and Data Operations
• Experience in hiring, organizing, and motivating teams and directing multiple priorities simultaneously serving multiple stakeholders
• Build clean software and systems abstractions, and understand that modular, reusable components are key to manageably supporting thousands of pipelines and beyond as we scale.
• Work cross-functionally: with upstream teams to guide and consult them on how to structure their data to expose good data contracts, and with downstream including data consumers and data teams to expose well-designed and well-documented data models and metrics.
• Promote an Engineering Excellence culture within the team to mature Product craftsmanship, Product Reliability, increase Customer satisfaction and improve Developer experience.
• Evaluate emerging tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, and mentoring other members of the engineering community
• Act as a role model, demonstrating the CPP Investments values, providing clear management support and development to the team, and following all CPP Investments people processes.

Qualifications

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

• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
• 8+  years’ experience in technology with experience in architecture/engineering
• Hands-on experience with Airflow, EMR, PySpark, S3, Lambda, IAM, Glue, DMS, Iceberg, Hudi, AWS Glue DQ, Great Expectations, Athena, LakeFormation, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail
• Strong understanding of modern data concepts: Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Products
• Experience in data modeling, data architecture, data engineering, data analysis and familiarity with ETL tools, data warehousing & big data architecture and business intelligence reporting/analytics.
• Must have experience in data modeling, data visualization design and development including legacy ETL and modern ELT constructs and BI tools like AWS Quicksight, Tableau, etc.
• Experience with DataOps and various continuous delivery practices to deploy, support and operate data pipelines
• Strong knowledge of software development best practices and patterns.
• Demonstrate strong facilitation, communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of partnership, integrity 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:

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.