About the Role
Define architectural direction and elevate engineering excellence across critical investment technology platforms and data capabilities. Operate as a senior individual contributor at the Director level, influencing enterprise-wide technical decisions, strengthening engineering practices, and ensuring technology platforms remain scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with long-term investment objectives. Shape how technology enables investment decision-making, risk management, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve architectural direction across critical technology platforms and data capabilities, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and engineering standards.
- Provide technical leadership on complex, cross-functional initiatives, making informed trade-offs across scalability, resilience, performance, security, cost, and operational sustainability.
- Partner with Technology Architecture & Practices and peer Principal Engineers to establish architectural consistency and long-term platform sustainability.
- Raise engineering standards across the organization by mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical decision-making through sound architectural judgement.
- Strengthen DevOps maturity, deployment reliability, observability, and secure-by-design engineering practices across technology teams.
- Advance data product maturity by improving ownership, interoperability, integration, and trusted consumption patterns.
- Guide the responsible adoption of Generative AI and automation while reducing unnecessary technology proliferation and architectural fragmentation.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading architecture and engineering strategy across complex enterprise technology environments.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, cloud technologies, software engineering, and modern engineering practices.
- Strong understanding of DevOps, platform engineering, security-by-design, observability, and operational resilience.
- Experience designing and enabling scalable data platforms, data integration, and data product capabilities.
- Ability to influence senior technical leaders and business stakeholders through sound technical judgement and collaborative leadership.
- Proven ability to mentor senior engineers and drive engineering excellence across multiple teams.
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies, including Generative AI, and applying them responsibly within enterprise environments.
- Motivated to contribute to something larger than yourself, approach complex challenges with rigor, and hold yourself to high standards in a collaborative, performance-driven environment.
Skills
- Distributed systems architecture
- Cloud technologies
- Software engineering
- Modern engineering practices
- DevOps
- Platform engineering
- Security-by-design
- Observability
- Operational resilience
- Data platforms
- Data integration
- Data product capabilities
- Generative AI
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Principal Engineer
- Director level
- Senior individual contributor
Benefits
- Cutting-edge AI tools
- Dedicated learning time
- Practical support
About the Company
- Joining CPP Investments means joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors to drive a single mandate: to deliver strong, sustainable returns for generations of Canadians.
- With a long-term horizon and global reach, we deploy capital at scale across public and private markets.
- Our size, stability, and disciplined investment philosophy allow us to pursue complex opportunities and build enduring partnerships worldwide.
- For our people, this means meaningful work with tangible impact, real opportunity, and collaboration with exceptional colleagues who value partnership and performance.
- Here, you’ll contribute to outcomes that matter alongside team members committed to excellence and shared success.
Equal Opportunity
- CPP Investments is committed to equitable access to employment and building a workforce that reflects diverse talent and perspectives.
- If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
- CPP Investments is committed to a secure and transparent recruitment process.
- We will never ask candidates for payment or financial information at any stage of hiring.
- All legitimate opportunities are posted on our careers page, and communications will come from our applicant tracking system, Workday.
- CPP Investments may use AI tools to help screen and assess applicants by analyzing resumes and applications for relevant skills and experience.
- These tools support, but do not replace, human decision-making.
