Lead Engineer, Risk

3 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada CPP Investments Full time
Job Description

The Investment Risk Technology is hiring a Lead Engineer to build cloud solutions and services for the next-generation Risk Management system.  This is an opportunity to demonstrate leadership and software engineering excellence as you work with a team of agile developers transforming CPP Investments Risk systems to a cloud-based technology stack.

The Opportunity:

  • Provide technical leadership and coach team members on cloud technology and best practices
  • Implement financial product specific processing in the cloud for CPP Investments’ next-generation Risk Management system
  • Design and build robust and scalable cloud solutions by working closely with our internal business partners, cloud providers and GitHub community, and fellow IT teams
  • Develop, maintain, and support cloud software solutions, micro-services, and user interfaces to allow future innovations to be used by the firm
  • Apply cloud technology and build components through rapid prototyping exercises to solicit early user feedback, discover appropriate solutions, and implement incremental improvement
  • Support innovation in the cloud and contribute to sustainable development and automated deployment practices, including DevOps, continuous integration and delivery, orchestration, and infrastructure as code
  • Participate in the project life cycle from analysis, to development and testing, and applies best practices and hands-on expertise as required
  • Provide troubleshooting support and knowledge transfer to the application support team

Qualifications

This role demands proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help deliver and maintain robust, scalable solutions to the Risk Systems team.  Specific requirements for the Lead Engineer include:

  • Exceptional technology skills; recognized by your peers as an expert in your domain
  • Experience in software engineering for Capital Markets and/or Risk Management preferred
  • Possess a passion for technology, stays sharp in the craft by keeping on top of new technologies, tools, and trends
  • Demonstrated experience with Amazon Web Services Serverless technologies is essential, including S3, Lambdas, Apache Airflow, etc. or equivalent Google Cloud or Azure
  • Solid Python programming skills to cleanse, manipulate, and present data preferred
  • Strong knowledge of both relational and NoSQL databases
  • Experience in utilizing the modern SDLC platforms such as GitHub Enterprise (Source Control), Jenkins (CI) and IBM UrbanCode (DevOps)
  • Experience modelling complex data structures, patterns, and relationships
  • Experience setting up deployment automation, automated unit testing, code repositories
  • Excellent written verbal communication skills and ability to manage cross-functional and business expectations
  • University degree, preferably in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
  • Exemplifies our 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.

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, Sydney and Hong Kong 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.


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