Platform Engineering Manager

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group (CC&L); Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 198,751 - 227,144; Full time

Job summary

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group (CC&L) is seeking a Manager, Platform Engineering to lead a small engineering team focused on system integration and automation. This role requires strong hands-on experience in reliability engineering and observability, with responsibilities including design oversight and team mentorship.

The position operates on a hybrid model allowing flexibility between in-office and remote work. The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $160,000 with additional performance bonuses, reflecting CC&L's commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on depth in site reliability engineering or observability.
• Experience building production observability.
• Good understanding of distributed systems and integration patterns.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Experience designing automation for investment management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers.
• Set engineering standards for deployment safety.
• Design resilient system-to-system integrations.
• Build automation and AIOps capabilities.
• Take ownership of complex reliability issues.

Skills

Site reliability engineering

Observability

Platform engineering

Production data engineering

CI/CD

Containers and orchestration

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

ServiceNow

Airflow

Job description

We are looking for a Manager, Platform Engineering for an existing vacancy in our IS team. At CC&L Financial Group, technology platforms help our investment, operations, and client‑facing teams move with confidence. This role is a hands‑on engineering manager who leads a small platform engineering team focused on systems integration, control, and automation foundations that support systematic investment operations.

Our offices operate on a hybrid model with a combination of in‑office and remote working days throughout the week.

What You Will Do

• Lead and mentor a small team of platform system integration and reliability engineers while staying close to design and delivery.
• Set practical engineering standards for observability, SLOs, incident response, deployment safety, infrastructure as code, production readiness and integration control.
• Design and improve resilient system‑to‑system integrations across APIs, event streams, batch/file transfers, data workflows, vendor platforms and cloud or hybrid environments.
• Build quant‑grade infrastructure for systematic investment middle and back office operations, including workflow orchestration, data quality controls, reconciliations, exception handling, lineage and audit evidence.
• Build automation and AIOps capabilities that reduce manual work, improve detection and recovery, and are safe enough for production use.
• Take direct ownership of the most complex reliability, integration and production control problems, especially when incidents do not resolve cleanly.
• Partner with investment, operations, risk, data, application, infrastructure and vendor teams to solve problems and make reusable patterns stick.
• Improve observability signal quality, reducing noise and shortening time to detect and resolve incidents.
• Handle the most difficult reliability, integration and production control issues with calm, clear technical leadership.

What You Bring

• Strong hands‑on depth in at least two of: site reliability engineering, observability, platform engineering, systems integration, production data engineering, release engineering or production automation.
• Experience building or running production observability with tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ELK/OpenSearch, Azure Monitor or similar.
• Good understanding of distributed systems and integration patterns, including APIs, event‑driven design, batch/file processing, data flows, failure modes, idempotency and vendor workflows.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, orchestration and modern deployment patterns.
• Experience designing infrastructure, controls or automation for investment management, capital markets middle/back office operations, enterprise data/integration or another high‑availability regulated environment.
• Practical judgement on data quality, reconciliation, exception handling, lineage, audit evidence and release governance without creating unnecessary delivery friction.
• Experience leading engineers through design review, coaching, pairing and clear feedback.
• Experience with ServiceNow, Camunda, Temporal, Argo, Airflow, Dagster, dbt, Celonis or similar orchestration/process tools would be beneficial.
• Exposure to systematic investing, portfolio/trading workflows, middle/back office platforms, IBOR/ABOR, enterprise data platforms or vendor platforms such as SimCorp, BlackRock Aladdin, Arcesium or similar would be nice to have.
• Experience with Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, cloud‑native monitoring, operational data platforms, automation frameworks or practical AI/AIOps use cases are a bonus.

The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $160,000. The salary range provided reflects the base salary range for this position as required by legislation. In addition, there is an annual performance bonus which contributes to the total compensation for this position.

CC&L Financial Group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or expression, disability, or age.