Lead Engineer, Data Enablement, Data Platforms

**Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization**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 livesIf you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here.**Role Summary:**The Data Enablement Team enables the organization to derive value from enterprise data by building reusable platforms, tools, and services that help users and applications discover, understand, and safely consume trusted data products for production, analytics, and research use cases. The team owns the enterprise Data Portal and the FinSights BI Portal (one-stop shop for enterprise BI assets), builds low‐latency consumption services on top of the Enterprise Data Fabric and data catalog, and delivers product governance services, operational dashboards, and computational governance embedded into the platform. The team uses automation and agentic techniques as implementation tools to improve discovery, comprehension, and self‐serve user journeys across departments—while maintaining security, entitlements, and policy controls by design.**Accountabilities & Qualifications:**Design and build core platform services that power enterprise data discovery and consumption, including portal backends, APIs, governance workflows, and programmatic consumption interfaces on top of the Enterprise Data Fabric. Ensure services are secure, scalable, and adopted across departments.**Accountabilities*** Design, architect, and evolve Data Enablement services to improve data discovery, access, and trust across the organization* Drive adoption of services by engaging users, understanding needs, and iterating on solutions to maximize value* Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, and secure by applying DevSecOps practices, automation, and operational standards* Produce and maintain solution architecture artifacts (e.G., HLD/LLD, threat models) and support governance processes (ARB, Information Security)* Partner with Cloud Foundation and Data Foundation teams to align with enterprise standards, shared services, and platform guardrails* Build and operate backend services supporting enterprise data platforms and portals* Define and maintain API standards, including contracts, versioning, and compatibility* Contribute to workflow automation capabilities used within Data Enablement solutions under enterprise controls**Qualifications*** Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field (e.G. Engineering, Computer Science).* 6+ years of experience delivering production-grade software services* Strong programming skills in Python* Strong experience with AWS cloud platform, including networking, security, and multi-account environments* Solid understanding of identity and access management (e.G., IAM, Cognito, authentication/authorization patterns)* Experience building APIs and backend services (REST/GraphQL, event-driven architectures, resiliency patterns)* Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and DevSecOps practices (e.G., Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, automated security controls)* Experience with observability and reliability practices (logging, monitoring, alerting, incident response)* Strong API design experience (OpenAPI/Swagger, versioning, backward compatibility)* Experience working with data formats and schema validation/transformation (e.G., JSON)* Experience building and operating backend services for user-facing platforms* **Nice to have*** Experience with agentic or orchestration frameworks (e.G., AWS Bedrock, LangChain, LlamaIndex)* Understanding of retrieval approaches such as RAG/GraphRAG and vector search (e.G., OpenSearch, Pinecone, Weaviate)* Experience with containerization and platform operations (e.G., Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)* Familiarity with data query and serving layers (e.G., Redshift, Trino, StarRocks) and governed data access patterns* AWS Data & Analytics certification;
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or follow uson**.**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.#LI-ONSITE**Competitive benefits**
We offer a comprehensive package that goes beyond the basics. From health and wellness plans to performance-based bonuses, we aim to recognize your contributions in meaningful ways and support what matters to you, both at work and beyond.
**Career Development**
We take growth seriously: yours and ours. At CPP Investments, you’ll find opportunities to learn new skills, take on fresh challenges, and explore roles across teams and geographies. We support career paths that aren’t one-size-fits-all, because we know development looks different for everyone.
**Wellbeing**
We’re serious about supporting your wellbeing. That includes access to mental health resources, wellness programs, and work arrangements that offer flexibility where it makes sense. We know that when life and work are in balance, everyone benefits.For 25 years, we’ve proudly invested the Canada Pension Plan Fund, helping to secure retirement for more than 22 million Canadians.
Our success is powered by people. We support our colleagues with programs that promote well-being, encourage growth, and reward excellence—because impact begins with empowerment.
Guided by Integrity, Partnership, and High Performance, we keep our promises, own our setbacks, and collaborate for shared success.
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