Lead Software Engineer, Total Fund Management Technology

Make an Impact as a Lead Software Engineer, Total Fund Management Technology at CPP Investments

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, 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
• Global career development opportunities
• 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.

Team Description

The Total Fund Management Technology team supports the enterprise-level investment structure and processes for managing CPP Investments’ Total Portfolio. The team collaborates across investment, risk, and operations groups to integrate and optimize portfolio management workflows using modern, cloud-native technologies.

The TFM PM Engineering team builds platforms and analytical capabilities that enable portfolio construction, monitoring, and decision-making at scale, supporting the long-term objectives of the CPP Fund.

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.

Major Accountabilities

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Lead the end-to-end software development lifecycle for complex initiatives, from problem framing and solution design through development, testing, deployment, and support
• Own technical designs and architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards
• Drive delivery accountability for technical outcomes, proactively managing risks, dependencies, and trade-offs
• Apply and promote engineering best practices, including clean code, automated testing, CI/CD, and cloud-native design patterns

Solution Design & Engineering Excellence

• Design, build, test, and support high-quality backend, data-centric, and user-facing solutions in an Agile environment
• Partner closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate complex portfolio management needs into effective technology solutions
• Drive experimentation and prototyping to validate ideas early and incorporate user feedback into solution design
• Lead root-cause analysis of production issues and implement sustainable fixes to improve platform stability and reliability

Leadership, Mentorship & Collaboration

• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to engineers, fostering a culture of learning, feedback, and continuous improvement
• Influence technical direction beyond your immediate team through collaboration with peer engineering and data teams
• Build strong, trusted relationships with investment professionals, business partners, and technology stakeholders
• Act as a role model for CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership, and High Performance

Qualifications

Required

• Undergraduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including leading complex technical initiatives
• Strong experience designing and building enterprise-grade systems using languages such as Python, Java, or C++
• Hands-on experience across the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and support
• Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS, and modern DevOps practices
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (unit and integration), and Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred / Assets

• Experience building data-intensive or analytical platforms in an investment or capital markets context
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools, including LLM-based coding assistants and agent-based or automated development workflows, to augment software design, development, and testing.
• Experience with frontend technologies such as Angular, React, or Dash
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform
• Familiarity with BI and visualization tools such as QuickSight

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity

At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. 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.

Key skills/competency

• Software Engineering
• Technical Leadership
• Cloud-Native Design
• Python / Java / C++
• AWS Cloud Services
• CI/CD & DevOps
• Agile Methodologies
• System Architecture
• Portfolio Management
• Data-intensive Platforms