Lead Engineer, Total Fund Management Trading, Public Markets Technology

CPP Investments | Investissements RPC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment management organization seeks a Lead Engineer for Trading Technology, focusing on creating solutions for trading activities. The role involves collaborating with traders and operations to enhance trade systems. Candidates should have significant experience in software development and a solid understanding of trading environments.

Benefits

Hybrid-flexible work environment

Access to diverse and inspiring colleagues

Accelerated exposure and responsibility

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience in Trading Technology.
• Extensive experience with various programming languages.
• Good understanding of trading and trade life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on development of trading solutions.
• Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Conceptualize, design, and support technology solutions end-to-end.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

Agile

Education

Undergraduate degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Bloomberg

Murex

FIX protocol

Job description

Lead Engineer, Total Fund Management Trading, Public Markets Technology

Lead Engineer, Total Fund Management Trading, Public Markets Technology

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Company Description

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.

Company Description

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.

Job Description

You will work as a Lead Engineer in Trading Technology, Public Market Investments team, partnering with CPPIB’s traders, investment professionals and operations staff to design and implement solutions enabling trading and post trade activities. You will be responsible for leading developers and hands on development of solutions covering a number of asset classes including equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC and FX.

Through close partnership with traders, investment professionals and operations, you will see firsthand how your software is impacting trade activities and delivering long-term value to the CPP Fund for the benefit of 20 million CPP contributors and beneficiaries.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will guide and participate in building and supporting value-add technology solutions and products end-to-end. You will also demonstrate leadership and drive engineering excellence within your team and influence the same across the Technology & Data department.

Accountabilities

• Conceptualize, design, build, test and support technology solutions end-to-end, to enable complex business capabilities, in an Agile environment that includes business and T&D partner teams.
• Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement within the team and influence similar improvements across teams, providing technical leadership and coaching
• Demonstrate and apply advanced understanding of technical landscape and the business capabilities it supports to guide others
• Foster and enable agility and innovation through experimentation and early feedback ensuring responsiveness to evolving business needs
• Succinctly frame problems, engage appropriately with colleagues to think deeply about broad problems and gain buy-in on well-reasoned recommendations
• Facilitate root-cause-analysis involving multiple teams
• Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required.
• Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growth
• Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science).
• 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Extensive experience working with various programming languages (Python, C++, Java, etc.)
• Experience with software development concepts, including version control, testing methodologies, and agile development practices
• Extensive experience writing clean, readable, and well-documented code, while paying attention to details and adhering to coding standards
• Good understanding of trading, derivatives, trade life cycle with an eagerness to contribute to the systems that support them.
• Knowledge of Bloomberg and / or Murex trading platforms is a bonus.
• Knowledge of FIX protocol is preferred
• Passion to expand your domain knowledge both on the job and through continued education in courses such as the CFA, CSC and DFC.
• Knowledge of technologies for Cloud development. Experience working with AWS is must.

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.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Information Technology

Investment Management

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