Director, Real Asset Technology - Old Toronto, ON, Canada - Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

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, São Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investmentsattracts 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
• 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.

Job Description

We are actively seeking a Director, Real Asset Technology who can lead a diverse and talented team of software engineers, analysts, and quality engineers. As a leader, you will play a pivotal role in driving business capabilities and shaping our modern cloud-native applications supporting products related to asset management and portfolio analytics for private asset investment groups. Reporting to the Managing Director of Alternative Asset Technology, you will have end to end accountability for implementing technology solutions in collaboration with our Real Asset Product Owner.

Major Accountabilities:

• Lead agile software delivery and provide technical oversight of product solutions supporting business capability enablement
• Foster a DevOps/ Quality Engineering mindset and strong understanding of the Real Assets with focus on Real Estate, Infrastructure and Sustainable Investing businesses within your team to ensure agility and meet current and future business needs.
• Collaborate closely with the Investment Department Product Owner to shape the product roadmap, leveraging your deep understanding of the business domain and its context within CPPIB.
• Encourage an entrepreneurial mindset, constructively driving continuous improvement within your team and across teams
• Ensure strategic alignment of products across the CPPIB ecosystem and architecture/delivery alignment to industry and T&D best practices and standards
• Manage vendor relationships, optimizing efficiency and meeting budgetary needs to maximize business value
  

Qualifications

If you have the following qualifications, we encourage you to apply:

• A minimum of 8 years of senior software engineering experience, demonstrating strong knowledge of modern development and architecture practices.
• Ability to build strong relationships, influence and communicate effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders, including business leaders, operational staff, and technical engineers
• People leadership experience and strong knowledge of software development best practices
• Proven experience leading and collaborating with diverse technology teams and business partners, building strong relationships, and effectively communicating with stakeholders.
• Possess good judgment, a collaborative spirit, curiosity, and strong communication skills.
• Ability to quickly understand the technology needs of business groups and quickly translate complex business needs to technology solutions
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• Additional assets include CFA designation and/or knowledge of private market investment domains.
• Familiarity and experience with Alternative Asset technology is considered a plus.

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.