Director, Data Enablement, Data Platfoms

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. 

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:

Accountabilities

• Architect, design, and evolve reusable Data Enablement services with explicit outcomes (time-to-discovery, time-to-access, data trust signals) and measurable adoption targets

• Drive adoption of services through evangelization and advocacy: engage users, understand needs, and iterate the product roadmap to maximize value across departments

• Design for performance, scalability, resiliency, and security-by-design; implement DevSecOps principles, automation, and operational excellence (SLOs, observability, incident response)

• Create solution architecture artifacts (HLD/LLD, threat models where applicable) and obtain approvals through Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Information Security (Infosec) processes

• Partner with Cloud Foundation and Data Foundation teams to implement enablement solutions aligned to enterprise standards, shared services, and platform guardrails

• Set architecture standards for portal experiences, programmatic interfaces (APIs/SDKs), and consumption services, ensuring interoperability with the Enterprise Data Fabric and data catalog

• Own the operating model for consumer enablement services (product governance, usage/adoption dashboards, health metrics) and drive continuous improvement

• Establish talent development, coaching, and engineering excellence across Lead and Senior engineers; set expectations and raise the bar on delivery and operations

Leadership Expectations

• Enterprise Focus: Build durable relationships across Technology and Investment departments; align the pod’s roadmap to enterprise outcomes and stakeholder priorities while balancing risk, cost, and time-to-value

• Strategic Thinking: Translate federated data products and platform strategy into a coherent multi-quarter roadmap; make trade-offs explicit; design for scale, reuse, and sustainability

• Constructive Engagement: Influence without authority; drive alignment across Cloud Foundation, Data Foundation, domain pods, Architecture, and Infosec; communicate decisions clearly and manage competing priorities effectively

• Deliberate Execution: Establish operating rhythms, measurable adoption/SLO metrics, and delivery discipline; ensure high-quality solution architecture artifacts and governance approvals (ARB/Infosec) are obtained on time

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and operating enterprise platforms and shared services, including web portals and API ecosystems

• Strong experience with cloud platform engineering (AWS), including networking, security, and multi-account environments

• Solid understanding of identity and access management (IAM, authentication/authorization patterns)

• Experience with API and service-based architectures (REST/GraphQL, event-driven patterns, resiliency design)

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and DevSecOps practices (e.g., Terraform, CI/CD, security controls)

• Experience with observability and reliability practices (monitoring, alerting, incident response, continuous improvement)

• Strong experience in API design and standards (OpenAPI/Swagger, versioning, backward compatibility)

• Experience working with structured data formats and schema processing (e.g., JSON)

• Experience with platform governance, including solution architecture, ARB processes, and Information Security engagement

• Proven ability to lead cross-team delivery and align multiple stakeholders using an outcome-driven approach

Nice to have

• Experience with knowledge graph and semantic modeling (e.g., Neptune, RDF/Turtle, lineage, ontology design)

• Experience with agentic or orchestration frameworks (e.g., AWS Bedrock, LangChain, LlamaIndex)

• Understanding of retrieval approaches such as RAG and GraphRAG

• Experience with vector search technologies (e.g., OpenSearch, Pinecone, Weaviate)

• Familiarity with containerization and platform operations (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)

• Experience with data query and serving platforms (e.g., Redshift Serverless, Trino, StarRocks)

• Familiarity with distributed data processing and orchestration (e.g., Airflow, EMR, Spark)

• Experience with governed data access patterns (e.g., Lake Formation entitlements)

Preferred certifications
• AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate or AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty (or equivalent)
• AWS Certified Machine Learning (Specialty or equivalent); experience with SageMaker AI and SageMaker Lakehouse concepts in governed enterprise settings

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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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