Position Description
You will work as a Specialist in Risk and Investment Systems, partnering with CPPIB’s Quantitative Equities, Active Fundamental Equities and Thematic Investment teams to maximize efficiency of the investment lifecycle and value-add of technology within investment research. This means shepherding the architecture, design, development and support of both existing and new software and systems towards strategic directions while balancing trade-offs between several stakeholders.
Through close partnership with investment professionals and operations, you will see firsthand how your contribution is impacting trade activities and delivering long-term value to the CPP Fund for the benefit of 20 million CPP contributors and beneficiaries.
The opportunity:
- Work in colocation with CPPIB’s portfolio managers to build solutions enabling portfolio analysis activities, holdings management, trade submission and performance reporting.
- Design, develop, and support web applications, RESTful services, and holdings management systems using a variety of technologies including Java, Angular and Python.
- Influence and the shape of CPPIB’s future technology direction related to cloud platforms and related technology patterns.
- Develop solutions that are in line with CPPIB’s technology biases, deliver efficiency and scalability, and enable new trading activities.
- Promote development tools and Agile best practices through active team participation, knowledge sharing sessions, and maintenance of documentation on team wiki.
- Provide responsive business assistance while adhering to processes required for quality enterprise-level software development and support.
- Coach and influence members of your own team, as well as collaborate with other teams, to build reusable, scalable and predictable solutions.
- Mentor, motivate and teach other team members to improve their communication, technical and business skills.
- Produce and maintain small project management artifacts and execute related duties as required
- Work closely with team management to steer and facilitate multi-team initiatives
- Other duties as assigned.
Position Requirements
If you possess the following, we’d like to hear from you:
- University degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
- Strong interest in capital markets and eagerness to contribute to the systems that support them.
- Knowledge of software development best practices and patterns.
- Strong knowledge of python, with an interest in learning or expanding existing Java, Angular and JavaScript skills.
- Excellent communication, critical thinking and relationship management skills, with an ability to naturally influence others and sell ideas effectively.
- Passion to expand your domain knowledge both on the job and through continued education in online courses or accreditations such as the CSC and CFA.
- A background in open source software development or entrepreneurial activities.
- Commitment to CPPIB’s guiding principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.
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