Lead Engineer, Alternative Investments Technology

Purpose. Performance. People. 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.

The Role

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.

The Team

Core Accountabilities

• Conceptualize, design, build, test and support technology solutions end-to-end, to enable complex business capabilities, in an Agile environment that includes business and T&D partner teams.
• Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement within the team and influence similar improvements across teams, providing technical leadership and coaching
• Demonstrate and apply advanced understanding of technical landscape and the business capabilities it supports to guide others
• Foster and enable agility and innovation through experimentation and early feedback ensuring responsiveness to evolving business needs
• Succinctly frame problems, engage appropriately with colleagues to think deeply about broad problems and gain buy-in on well-reasoned recommendations
• Facilitate root-cause-analysis involving multiple teams
• Adhere to Agile SDLC and execute related duties as required.
• Foster collaboration and mentorship promoting a culture of feedback, learning and professional growth
• Maintain strong relationships with business partners, peer IT teams and vendor partners.

Core Qualifications (Education and Experience)

• Undergraduate degree in related fields (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science).
• 12 + years of relevant experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Angular and AWS Cloud.
• Strong software engineering skills including microservices, version control (Git), testing methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and Agile delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, well-documented, and secure code while adhering to coding standards, engineering best practices, and architectural guidelines.
• Experience leveraging Generative AI throughout the SDLC using tools such as GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, or similar AI-assisted development platforms to improve developer productivity.
• Experience with EKS, Terraform, AWS services, Python, Kafka, Redis, ELK.
• Experience building Gen AI solutions using LLMs, AWS Bedrock, AgentCore, RAG, Agentic AI workflows.
• You are 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.

We provide colleagues with cutting-edge AI tools, dedicated learning time, and practical support to help them deliver with greater impact.

Inclusion & Accessibility

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.

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