Lead, Portfolio Engineering

Job title: Lead, Portfolio Engineering

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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 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

Portfolio Engineering (PE) is a team within the Data & Advanced Analytics department. PE acts as the intersection between business activities and the analytics and data of CPP Investments. PE interacts with investment operations and engineering to ensure that business logic is implemented to specifications and abstracts the analytics and data piping away from the Investment Departments (IDs) – in effect expanding ID’s strategy scope.

PE is actively growing its presence as supportive partners in core service teams such as FAR by pro-actively understand the business needs from a financial analytics and reporting perspective through on boarding capabilities to a centralized platform.

CPP Investments adopts a hybrid working environment.

As a Portfolio Engineer – Specialist, you will

• Will work directly with IDs to develop, test, and implement quantitative models and strategies.
• Develops user interfaces to provide value-added insights and analytics to support portfolio management decision making.
• Get hands-on, implementing analytical tools in Python and Spark
• Add your voice to planning and brainstorming sessions to find the best solutions
• Innovate new ways to improve all aspects of what we do
• Guide junior members of the team

Qualifications

• An interest in computing, finance, mathematics or related fields
• Comfortable in an agile environment, where we try new things and experiment
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, computer science or the equivalent
• Experience working in an agile environment with proven experience in product management and working in agile delivery teams
• Experience with the capital markets would be a benefit but not required
• Seeking candidates with entrepreneurial spirit and creative thinking

Technical Qualifications:

• Spark, Python and pandas programming experience
• Experience in with cloud-based applications on AWS
• Drive software delivery through prototyping exercises to solicit early user feedback and discover appropriate solutions
• Experience with productivity tools such as JIRA or Confluence.
• Knowledge of leading and implementing change management

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

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

Effective November 1, 2021, all employees in the Toronto, New York and San Francisco offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.

Company: CPP Investments

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 23:43:07 GMT

Job Source: Careerjet.ca

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