Lead, Data Governance, Information and Corporate Security (12-month contract)

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CPP Investments is seeking a Lead, Data Governance for a 12-month contract onsite in Toronto. You will set the strategic direction for data governance, design Data Products in a data mesh, uphold standards, and maintain the data catalogue to ensure reusable, interoperable solutions that meet SLAs. The role partners with Data Owners and Stewards, collaborating with Investment Departments to drive data quality, metadata management, and stakeholder roadshows. Required: 6+ years’ experience, data modeling, ETL, data warehousing, cloud constructs, and the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences. How to apply: tailor your resume to governance outcomes with product examples and impact, highlight cross-functional leadership, include LinkedIn, and show a track record of improving data analysis workflows.

Company Description

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, San Francisco, 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. 

Job Description

Data Governance at CPP Investments is focused on enabling better decision-making through trusted, high-quality data.  The team maintains the enterprise-wide Data Governance Standard and works closely with Data Owners, Stewards, and Technical Area Leads (TALs) to ensure data products are fit for purpose, well-managed, and continuously improved.  We also partner with Stewards to ensure metadata is accurate, complete, and actionable, while providing guidance on implementing effective data quality rules and controls across the organization

Job Description

As a Lead, you are responsible for helping to set the strategic direction for data governance within the organization. This role involves collaborating design of Data Products, ensuring data trust, adherence of data governance standard, and the maintenance of the data catalogue. Ensures Data Products are reusable, interoperable, and meet data consumers’ needs. You will directly contribute to achieving business objectives by collaborating with stakeholders to understand their data needs and leading pieces of work to simplify and scale up our data solutions and capabilities.

Core Accountabilities:

• Lead the design and development of Data Products within a federated data mesh architecture, collaborating with data product owners and supporting internal business partners in the Investment Departments and Core Services.
• Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement within the team and influence similar improvements across teams, providing technical leadership and coaching
• Ensure Data Products are reusable, interoperable, and meet SLA adherence, while observing how they are used downstream to ensure self-service and a high degree of data comprehension and trust
• Develop and uphold data quality standards and policies, ensuring a thorough understanding of various internal and external data sets flowing through the systems.
• Provide strategic guidance and recommendations to stakeholders based on data analysis findings, helping inform business strategies, optimize operations, and drive organizational growth and performance.
• Act as a data steward, maintaining data accuracy and governance, and providing ongoing support for Data Governance capabilities such as metadata management, data quality, and reporting.
• Accountable for organizing roadshows for stakeholders to communicate updates and changes.
• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance data analysis methodologies, tools, and processes, driving continuous improvement initiatives to optimize data analysis workflows and deliver increasingly valuable insights.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to understand business requirements, align analytical efforts with organizational goals, and ensure the relevance and impact of data analysis initiatives.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field.
• 6+ years of relevant experience. 
• Experience working with a variety of analytical tools and visualization software’s.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the data lifecycle, including experience with data modeling, metadata, and data quality and governance.
• Experience in analyzing, manipulating, transforming, and interpreting datasets, and building data products in a data mesh architecture
• Exposure with data modeling, data architecture, data engineering, data analysis and data science (familiarity with ETL tools, data warehousing and big data architecture and cloud constructs).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Additional Information

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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.