CIBC

Consultant, Solution Design and Strategy

CIBC$90K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of overall experience, with 4+ years as a Solution or Technical Consultant.
  • Proven guide to technical teams with experience creating executive presentations independently.
  • Expertise in technology solution development with business and architecture teams.
  • Strong knowledge of high-value payments ecosystem (SWIFT/Lynx wire payments).
  • Familiarity with Industry Payments Modernization initiatives and ISO20022 payment standards.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop comprehensive technical consulting for senior IT management and technical teams.
  • Define end-to-end technical solutions considering enterprise architecture strategies and payment systems.
  • Lead the design council to ensure stakeholder buy-in and address design issues effectively.
  • Evaluate and select new technologies to support business and technology proposals.
  • Present solutions to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with timelines, budgets, and quality.

Benefits

  • Personalized recognition through competitive salary and incentive pay.
  • Comprehensive benefits program including banking benefits and defined benefit pension plan.
  • Employee share purchase plan and vacation offerings.
  • Wellbeing support and social recognition programs such as MomentMakers.
  • Opportunities for personal growth with initiatives like Purpose Day, a paid day off for development.
Full Job Description
What you'll be doing

Enterprise Wires Modernization (EWM) is a multi-year program that will implement a new modernized wire payment platform in several phases and workstreams. As Solution Consultant for EWM, you will be accountable for creating the solution design of the new modernized wire payments platform. This includes ensuring alignment of interim solutions of the various phases/workstreams, while considering the desired overall target state outcomes including ease of on-going support. Additionally, you will be accountable for remediating any design and build issues that may arise.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How You'll Succeed

  • Design & Develop : Provide comprehensive level technical consulting to senior IT management and technical teams, working closely with multiple Technology groups and LOBs to identify and evaluate existing applications and determine the best and most relevant approaches and next steps.
  • Technical Solutions: Define end to end technical solutions that take into account the enterprise architecture strategies, current state environment and constraints for enterprise payments systems including payments originating channels, Payment Services Hubs, Payment Engines and Payment rails. Analyze the viability of solutions to meet product timelines, budget, and quality. Present the solution to different stakeholders as needed.
  • Design Council: Lead the design council, which will be a forum with key stakeholders to determine key aspects of the solution, ensure buy-in of the solution design from key stakeholders, and remediate any design issues that may arise .Perform evaluation as well as selection of new and emerging tools and techniques and support the development of business / technology proposals by estimating implementation costs and evaluating options.


Who You Are

  • You can demonstrate experience: Overall 8 years of experience with at least 4+ years as a Solution or Technical Consultant. Have experience of providing guidance to technical teams, creating executive decks independently and are well versed at presenting to executives. Experience working with business and architecture teams to develop and design technology solutions is essential to this role. It's an asset having previous client facing consulting experience. Strong knowledge of high-value payments ecosystem (SWIFT/Lynx wire payments). It's an asset having knowledge of Industry Payments Modernization initiatives (Global and Canadian) Solid experience with a variety of technologies/frameworks including event-driven architecture, REST APIs, microservice architecture, CI/CD processes, DevOps pipelines, etc. Knowledge of ISO20022 payment standard and payment processing platforms (Payment Services Hubs, payment engines) considered an asset .
  • You have a degree/diploma: Computer Science, Engineering or Technical discipline;
  • You embrace and champion change. You'll continuously evolve your thinking and the way you work to deliver your best. You empower and enable your team to make continuous improvement, go above and beyond, and deliver results.
  • Your influence makes an impact. You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You inspire outcomes by making yourself heard.
  • 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, 11th Floor

Employment Type
Regular

Weekly Hours
37.5

Skills
Analytical Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Application Development, Application Firewall, Applications Programming, Azure Database For Postgresql, Data Solutions, Data Standards, Emerging Technologies, IBM App Connect Enterprise, IBM WebSphere MQ, ISO 20022, IT Strategic Planning, Java (Programming Language), Microsoft Azure, Oracle, Payment Handling, Payment Services, Red Hat Ansible, Redhat Linux Server, Red Hat OpenShift, RESTful API Design, Software Development, Solution Architecture, SQL Databases {+ 2 more}

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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