What you'll be doing

The Application Development team builds and supports scalable, secure, and modern technology solutions that help deliver strong outcomes for our clients and teams. As a Chapter Lead, Application Development, you'll lead and develop a team of software engineers while providing hands-on technical leadership across the software development lifecycle. You'll help shape an inclusive, accountable, and high-performing engineering culture by coaching team members, supporting workforce planning, and promoting continuous learning and engineering best practices. You'll partner with product, architecture, security, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, maintainable solutions that align with enterprise standards. You'll also champion modern engineering practices, including continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), automated testing, observability, DevSecOps, and responsible adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve delivery quality and team effectiveness. In this role, you'll balance strategic leadership with day-to-day execution, helping teams navigate change and deliver across multiple priorities.

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

• Lead people and build capability - Lead, coach, and develop software engineers across varying levels of experience. Set clear performance expectations, provide regular feedback, and support hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and career development.
• Drive technical excellence - Provide technical leadership across application design, coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, deployment, and support. Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Enable modern engineering practices - Champion CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and DevSecOps to strengthen delivery quality and efficiency. Encourage knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across the chapter.
• Advance practical AI adoption - Identify opportunities to responsibly use AI-assisted development tools, automation, and analytics throughout the software lifecycle. Guide engineers on appropriate use cases, governance considerations, and sound engineering judgment.
• Lead through change - Translate strategic direction into actionable priorities for engineering teams. Support adoption of new tools, technologies, and ways of working with clarity, empathy, and accountability.
• Manage delivery and partnerships - Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and external partners to deliver complex technology solutions. Provide transparent updates on progress, risks, dependencies, timelines, and team capacity while overseeing vendor performance and outcomes.

Who you are

• You can demonstrate experience in application development, software engineering leadership, agile or product-oriented delivery environments, the full software development lifecycle, and modern engineering tools and cloud or platform environments. It's an asset if you have experience with AI-assisted development tools, observability practices, and DevSecOps.
• You are a caring and accountable leader. You have experience developing and implementing strategic team goals. You have experience coaching employees and inspiring successful team performance.
• Your influence makes a difference. You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You inspire outcomes by sharing your expertise.
• You embrace and advocate for change. You continuously evolve your thinking and the way you work in order to deliver your best.
• You're digitally savvy. You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.
• You have a degree/diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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, 25th Floor

Employment Type
Regular

Weekly Hours
37.5

Skills
Application Development, Coaching, Decision Making, Enterprise Technologies, Leadership, People Management, Project Management, Solutions Design, Stakeholder Management, Technical Architecture