CIBC

Agile Coach

CIBC$90K — $120K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in agile coaching and business agility
  • Expertise in agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban
  • Strong skills in facilitating workshops and agile ceremonies
  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders
  • Possessing relevant agile certifications (CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP) is a plus
  • Excellent problem-solving and data interpretation skills

Responsibilities

  • Coach and mentor teams and stakeholders on agile principles
  • Promote data-driven decision-making and process refinement
  • Identify and resolve obstacles to enhance business agility
  • Foster collaboration between cross-functional teams
  • Support leadership in managing roadmaps and resource plans
  • Nurture relationships with internal and external partners to promote agile practices

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career growth and development
  • Recognition programs including banking benefits and wellness support
  • Defined benefit pension plan and employee share purchase plan
  • Flexible hybrid work arrangement
  • Paid day off for personal growth (Purpose Day)
Full Job Description
What you’ll be doing As a member of the Enterprise Capabilities and Organizational Agility team, you’ll play a key role in shaping how we deliver value at CIBC by championing agile principles and practices. As an Agile Coach, you’ll empower leaders and teams through guidance and mentorship, fostering a culture rooted in agility, continuous improvement, and client-centricity. You’ll work to address organizational challenges and drive meaningful change, accelerating business agility and the achievement of strategic objectives. At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 1-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote. How you’ll succeed - Coach and Empower Teams – Provide expert coaching and mentorship to Squads, Crews, and senior stakeholders on advanced agile principles and practices. Influence leaders to build empowered, high-performing teams and embed agile mindsets across the organization. - Champion Continuous Improvement – Advocate for data-driven decision-making, prioritization frameworks, and ongoing refinement of processes to achieve sustained enhancements in agile delivery and business outcomes. - Remove Barriers and Foster Collaboration – Identify and address systemic challenges that hinder business agility and effective delivery. Promote cross-functional collaboration to enhance agile capabilities and support enterprise-wide scalability. - Partner and collaborate – Work closely with leadership, stakeholders, and Product Owners to drive culture change, embed agility, and improve delivery of valuable outcomes. This includes supporting them to manage roadmaps, create resource plans, and facilitate agile ceremonies. Cultivate strong relationships with internal and external partners to advance agile adoption. Who you are - Agile/Adaptable- You embrace and advocate for change. You continuously evolve your thinking and the way you work in order to deliver your best. - Technical skills- You have deep expertise in agile coaching, organizational change, and business agility, with a demonstrated ability to influence and partner with senior stakeholders, as well as advanced facilitation, mentoring, and advisory skills. You possess proven experience with agile techniques and frameworks such as User Stories, Sprints, Continuous Integration, and Testing, as well as other agile approaches including XP, Kanban, and Design Thinking. You are skilled at introducing these practices to the appropriate teams at the optimal time. You are experienced with agile tools (i.e., Jira, Confluence). - Certified Professional- It would be an asset if you hold certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or PMI-ACP highlighting your expertise and commitment to agile coaching. - You give meaning to data. You enjoy investigating complex problems and making sense of information. You communicate detailed information in a meaningful way. - You're motivated by collective success. You know that teamwork can transform a good idea into a great one. - You’re outcome oriented. You’re motivated by accomplishing desired outcomes and developing actions plans to do so. You track progress to help inform next actions. - Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values—trust, teamwork, and accountability. What CIBC Offers At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck. - We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program. - Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients. - We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development. *Subject to plan and program terms and conditions Job Location Toronto-81 Bay, 5th Floor Employment Type Regular Weekly Hours 37.5 Skills Agile Adoption, Agile Learning, Agile Management, Agile Team Practices, Continuous Improvement, Critical Thinking, Data-Driven Decision Making, Enterprise Agile Coaching, Prioritization, Results-Oriented, Scrum, Systems Thinking

About CIBC

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The bank is headquartered at Commerce Court in the city's Financial District. CIBC's Institution Number is 010, and its SWIFT code is CIBCCATT. It is one of two Big Five banks founded in Toronto, the other being the Toronto-Dominion Bank. The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was formed through the June 1, 1961, merger of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and the Imperial Bank of Canada, the largest merger between chartered banks in Canadian history. The bank has four strategic business units: Canadian Personal and Business Banking, Canadian Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, U.S. Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, and Capital Markets. It has international operations in the United States, the Caribbean, Asia, and United Kingdom; Globally. CIBC serves more than eleven million clients, and has over 40,000 employees. The company ranks at number 172 on the Forbes Global 2000 listing.
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