Data Scientist, Alternative Data Engineer

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic investment organization that values integrity and high performance. As a Senior Associate in the Investment Research team, you'll leverage your data management skills to drive impactful investment decisions. Collaborate with talented colleagues in a stimulating environment that emphasizes innovation and teamwork. With a focus on alternative datasets, your analytical expertise will help shape investment strategies that positively affect lives. This role offers a hybrid-flexible work environment, ensuring a balance between collaboration and independence. If you're ready to make a difference in the investment landscape, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

Hybrid work environment

Diverse and inspiring colleagues

Accelerated exposure and responsibility

In-person collaboration emphasis

Culture of integrity and partnership

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of relevant experience in data analysis.
• Strong passion for data management and analysis.
• Ability to produce high-quality work with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop pipelines for processing large datasets with data scientists.
• Manage cloud infrastructure and process automation.
• Ensure data quality through rigorous testing.

Skills

Python

SQL

Big Data workflows

Analytic tools (Airflow)

Statistical modeling

AWS

Databricks

Data management

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Airflow

Job description

Data Scientist, Alternative Data Engineer

• Full-time
• Function: Investments

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. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability 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 $3.6 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
• 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.

We are recruiting for a Senior Associate to join the Investment Research team in AE-NA.

The Active Equities North America Group (“AE-NA”) within the Active Equities department invests in mid-large market capitalization public equities in North America. The strategy employs bottom-up and deep fundamental research insights to create a concentrated beta-neutral portfolio of high conviction long and short investments. The Investment Research team identifies opportunities to utilize alternative datasets to inform fundamental investment questions posed by sector-specific investment teams.

Reporting to the Portfolio Manager of the Investment Research team, the Senior Associate is responsible for identifying applicable data and conducting analytical experiments to isolate the drivers of current and future business performance of companies under coverage. The position is based in Toronto.

Position Requirements

Role specific accountabilities include:

• Work with a team of data scientists to develop pipelines for processing large structured and unstructured datasets and optimize for the team’s specific use cases
• Manage cloud infrastructure and process automation to achieve maximum results in a cost-effective manner while continually enhancing the codebase and productionizing processes
• Ensure data quality through a rigorous and thoughtful testing process
• Troubleshoot issues as they arise with systematic root cause analysis
• Generate innovative ideas for new forms of data collection
• Work directly with Investment partners to develop, test, integrate, and implement solutions for transformational initiatives

The minimum requirements include:

• An undergraduate degree
• Up to 3-6 years of relevant work experience
• A deep passion and interest in data management and analysis
• High academic performance and intellectual curiosity
• Core technical skills: strong in Python and SQL, exposure to Big Data workflows and analytic tools such as Airflow
• Knowledge of advanced statistical modeling software packages is a plus but not required
• Experience with AWS environment and Databricks is a plus but not required
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Knowledge or experience with active investment management or asset allocation is a plus
• Highly detail-oriented with the ability to produce high-quality work
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities
• Team-oriented and collaborative
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Exemplify CPP Investment’s Guiding Principles: Integrity, Partnership, and High Performance

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:

We are dedicated to building a diverse workforce and fostering an inclusive and accessible environment. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies or head-hunters not in a contractual arrangement with us. Resumes from unauthorized suppliers will be considered unsolicited and will not be reviewed.