Director, Enterprise Systems Technology

2 months ago


Old Toronto, Canada Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Full time

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
  • 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

The Director, Enterprise Systems will lead a team of engineers, analysts and quality engineers providing software development leadership with a specific focus on advancing and supporting the products for the Enterprise Systems HR, Legal & Compliance and Public Affairs and Communications departments.

Reporting to the Managing Director, Enterprise Systems, you will have end to end accountability for all aspects of technology solution implementation working in partnership with the Product Owner.

Major Accountabilities:

  • Build a high performing team with appropriate competencies (technical and business domain) to deliver services that meet and strive to exceed business expectations.
  • Lead agile software delivery and provide technical oversight and guidance.
  • Drive and empower your team to design, build and support technology solutions according to product roadmaps.
  • Ensure DevOps/Quality Engineering for supported products.
  • Ensure architecture/delivery is aligned to industry and T&D best practices and standards.
  • Build a culture of continuous learning and improvement within your team and across the organization.
  • Proactively identify and highlight risks/issues and own accountability to resolve.
  • Demonstrate thoroughness in recommendations and drive well thought-out solutions.
  • Coach and provide regular feedback to people within your team and across T&D.
  • Focus on career development for your team.
  • Foster a culture of transparency and model the behaviour of building bridges and trust within the team and organization.
  • Instill a focus of responsiveness/sense of urgency and ensure all actions are outcome driven.
Stakeholder Engagement
  • Effectively communicate to and influence peers and senior stakeholders, ensuring messages/materials can be comprehended by audiences of varying technical acumen.
  • Build network/relationships with business partners to understand business domain and needs to be valued as a trusted partner.
  • In partnership with the Product Owner, build and align on strategic roadmaps, priorities and corresponding quarterly OKRs.
  • Build network/relationships across T&D to connect the dots to broader strategy, avoid silo’d thinking and drive synergies.
  • Effectively manage multiple stakeholder groups simultaneously.
  • Manage vendor relationships, optimizing efficiency and meeting budgetary needs to maximize business value.
Metrics, Reporting and Continuous Improvement
  • Develop relevant metrics/scorecards to monitor KPIs.
  • Leverage a data-driven approach to drive continuous improvement and improve behaviours and performance across products, teams, and processes.
  • Manage team financials to budget (forecasts, invoices for vendor software/contractors)
Qualifications

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

  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or any other quantitative field
  • 8+ years’ experience in technology with experience in software development
  • People leadership experience and strong knowledge of software development best practices
  • Knowledge and working experience of HR, Legal, Public Affairs and Communications business and systems would be considered an asset
  • Ability to quickly understand the technology needs of various investment strategies and quickly translating complex business needs to technology solutions
  • Ability to build strong relationships, influence and communicate effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders, including business leaders, operational staff and technical engineers
  • Ability to handle changing problems and solve for ‘how’ to support of the Enterprise Systems business needs.
  • Adaptable to new technologies and challenges not previously encountered
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to work with both technical and business users
  • Self-motivated with acute attention to detail
  • Innovative and proactive
  • Exemplify CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of Integrity, High Performance and Partnership

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.

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