Principal Engineer, Fund Management Trading, Public Markets Technology

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 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.

Technology at CPP Investments is not a support function. It underpins how capital is allocated, how risk is measured, and how performance is evaluated across a global portfolio. The systems we design and operate directly influence high-consequence decisions that shape long-term outcomes at scale.

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to define architectural direction and elevate engineering standards across critical systems and data capabilities. This is a senior, hands‑on individual contributor role operating at Director level. You will not only shape what we build, but how we build it.

Your influence will extend beyond a single team. You will guide high-impact technical decisions, strengthen Dev Ops and security practices, improve data product maturity, and enable responsible adoption of emerging technologies such as Generative AI.

If you are motivated by complex systems, consequential trade‑offs, and raising the technical bar across an organization, this role offers uncommon scope and impact.

Public Markets Technology (PMT) at CPP Investments is responsible for building and maintaining a portfolio of applications related to trading in FX, Fixed Income, Equities among other asset classes. The portfolio of trading applications is core to the Fund’s activity, and the target of a modernization project aimed at creating a platform that can support the our future growth.

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the development and delivery of a modernised trading platform. As a Director level contributor, you will shape the architecture and development approach in creation of high‑impact trading platform, foster cross-team alignment, and act as a multiplier by mentoring engineers and raising the bar on quality, reliability, and performance. This is an opportunity to shape how CPP Investments builds and scales key systems that support investment decision‑making, portfolio analytics and insights across teams.

• Define and evolve architectural direction across systems and data capabilities.
• Align domain‑level architectural direction and engineering practices with enterprise design principles, lifecycle standards, and decision frameworks defined by the Technology Architecture & Practices function.
• Make and validate consequential trade-offs across scalability, resilience, performance, cost, and security.
• Ensure solutions are designed for operability, observability, and long‑term sustainability.
• Exercise senior architectural judgement on complex cross‑team initiatives and high‑impact…