CPP Investments | Investissements RPC Looking for Director, Technology & Data at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Full Time

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

Job Description

CPP Investments is looking at proven technology and people leader, to lead teams in an agile delivery environment for a quality outcome. The leader should have hands on technology experience, in addition to excellent execution capability, experience in building and developing teams, global mindset, collaborative and demonstrated experience in remote working setup across time-zones. Thought leadership in technical and functional aspects like public markets, alternate assets or risk. Accountable for ensuring end-to-end complex project or program delivery as well as providing technical leadership to others.

Role-specific Accountabilities:

• Interpersonal effectiveness to drive impact within area of responsibility, including: – Compelling communications with senior leadership – Builds relationships with leaders internally
• Owns performance management, development and engagement of one or more junior direct reports
• Demonstrates Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership and performance, and also promotes them in own team
• Acts inclusively with all colleagues, and also sets inclusive environment within the team
• Collaborates within and across groups to facilitate effective execution and partnerships, also promotes culture of collaboration within own team
• Critical thinking to deliver workstream/process/ program/project insight and recommendations
• Self driven with the ability to lead and solve complex problems
• Integrates organizational understanding into work by considering impact beyond own team
• Drives workstream/ process/program excellence with practicality and effectiveness
• Demonstrates resilience in the face of change and can effectively manage competing demands
• Effective delegation and supervision of specific output
• Build software solutions enabling end-to-end investment lifecycle support including pre-trade activities, trade submission and execution, reporting and post-trade activities. Work in partnership with CPP Investments’ professionals
• Drive design, integration and implementation, working as technology lead within an internal engineering team. Contribute to the development of long-term system target state, plan and drive system advancements towards strategic target
• Contribute to engineering excellence by proactively identifying and prioritizing opportunities to improve process agility, delivery efficiency, and implement DevOps & agile development principles.
• Support innovation and promote Agile best practices through active team participation, knowledge sharing sessions, and maintenance of documentation on team wiki.

Qualifications

• Overall, 19 plus years of experience over 7 years of relevant experience.
• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
• Proven leadership skills to build and lead teams.
• Interest in Investment Management and eagerness to contribute to the systems that support them, especially knowledge of Total Fund Management / Capital Markets / Alternate investment instruments like real estate and infrastructure investments, private equity.
• Demonstrated execution capability in technical areas like Python or Java, Angular, SQL, Cloud native applications. Experience with technologies: C++, FIX protocol will be a plus
• Demonstrated track record of Critical Thinking/Judgement, Drive/Initiative, Leadership, Teamwork. Excellent communication and relationship management skills
• Experience in architecting and developing cloud-native solutions on AWS (or other cloud provider) preferred.
• Proven attention to accuracy and detail, highly organized with the ability to prioritize and multi-task
• Exceptional (written and verbal) communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a high performing culture, under pressure and with time-sensitive deadlines.
• Personable, easily interacts with all types of personalities and at all levels with a high degree of professionalism.
• Proven ability to work independently as well as to perform effectively in a team-oriented and open-concept environment.
• Commitment to CPP Investments’ 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.