Associate, Data Platforms

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

We are hiring an Associate within Data Platform team of the Technology and Data department. In this role, you will combine your expertise in data analysis in the financial industry to support new data and analytics initiatives. You will be called on to find solutions to complicated data issues related to a variety of short- and long-term projects focused on bringing new data capabilities at CPPIB.

• Offer the team specialized knowledge and expert insights within the Data Domain.
• Support internal business partners (Investment Departments and Core Services) in the development and execution of new data capabilities.
• Perform analysis and transformation of various internal and external data sets.
• Conduct Data Profiling to assist the team in recognizing any potential impacts.
• Establish and sustain data models and mappings. Optimize performance.
• Collaborate with the Data Owner to define SLA/SLO, Data Quality Standards, Consumption Patterns, and Data Contracts.
• Help conduct and coordinate proof-of-concepts with external vendors alongside multiple internal stakeholders
• Test and integrate APIs from external vendors.
• Provide ongoing support for Data Governance capabilities such as metadata management, data quality and data stewardship/reporting.
• Pro-actively communicate and collaborate with internal business clients to analyze functional requirements and deliver the appropriate artifacts as needed: business requirement documents, functional specifications, data specifications, use cases, workflow analysis, metrics, reports and user-interface layouts and designs.
• Ensure that new enhancements address immediate business needs, while ensuring system alignment with data strategy and roadmaps.
• Leverage data visualization tools to represent the data in a business-friendly manner.

Qualifications

• Graduate or undergraduate degree in business and finance or other quantitative discipline (e.g. applied mathematics, financial economics, statistics, physics, engineering or computer science)
• Programming experience in SQL, Python technologies.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the data lifecycle, including experience with data modeling and data quality
• Experience working with AWS.
• Experience in analyzing, manipulating, transforming, and interpreting large and complex datasets including time series and panel data.
• Experience with market data vendors including Bloomberg, IDC, Refinitiv and alternative data vendors an asset.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as AWS QuickSight is an asset.
• Experience that demonstrates data knowledge across the following domains is an asset:
  • Securities: listed securities and derivatives, market indices, alternative assets
  • Pricing: market available pricing and evaluated pricing
  • Corporate actions and associated lifecycle events
  • Legal entities: parties, investment vehicles
  • Reference data: asset classifications, geographic designations, industry classifications
  • Data used in the investment process: fundamentals, estimates, industry KPIs, economic indicators, alternative data sets.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work individually as well as in a team environment
• Commitment to CPPIB’s guiding principles of integrity, partnership 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.