CIBC

Director, Design and Solutions

CIBC$125K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in technical architecture and solutions design.
  • Proven experience in project management and stakeholder engagement.
  • Strong background in identifying and exploiting IT opportunities.
  • Ability to guide teams from concept to delivery with clarity.
  • Exceptional analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated capacity to lead diverse, high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

  • Drive application delivery and solution architecture for strategic initiatives.
  • Develop scalable and secure technology solutions.
  • Manage cross-project dependencies, risks, and impacts.
  • Facilitate alignment across multiple project workstreams.
  • Challenge existing delivery approaches to improve outcomes and costs.
  • Explore opportunities for AI, automation, and modernization.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and incentive pay.
  • Employee share purchase plan and defined benefit pension plan.
  • Vacation offerings and wellbeing support.
  • Recognition through personalized programs and initiatives like Purpose Day.
Full Job Description

What you'll be doing

As a member of CIBC’s team, the role is a seasoned professional in leadership and coaching responsible for providing direct application delivery, design, and solutions. The role applies leadership skills and technical expertise to direct, manage and support large and critical applications.  Responsible for shaping solution design and architecture across strategic initiatives and planned projects. This role drives key technology decisions, develops scalable and secure solutions, and brings multiple projects together into a clear, aligned technology roadmap. You’ll partner closely with business and delivery teams to assess feasibility, define solution options, remove roadblocks, and ensure implementation meets design specifications. The role also challenges delivery approaches, vendors, and costs to improve outcomes, while identifying opportunities for artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and modernization. As a trusted technology partner, you’ll connect business priorities to execution, manage cross-project dependencies and risks, and bring emerging technology trends into strategic decision-making.

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

  • Advance innovation - Keep an eye on emerging technologies and use your insight to help the organization explore practical opportunities in artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and modernization.

  • People Leadership – Lead and coach a high performing group team of individuals. Direct, motivate, and develop your team, maximizing their contributions and professional growth. Share knowledge and collaborate to come up with effective solutions to problems.

  • Relationship Management – Work closely with project teams, executives,  stakeholders and business partners to develop, and implement application programs. Impact and improve the business by advising application owners on the technology implementation possibilities and requirements. 

  • Moderate the Solution Creation Process: Lead, facilitate and coordinate the solution design, including ensuring alignment across multiple workstreams.

Who you are

  • You are a seasoned technical leader. You have 10+ years of demonstrated experience in: technical architecture, solutions design, project management, and senior executive stakeholder management. Influence strategic direction - Build trusted relationships with business and technology leaders to guide decisions that balance business value, technical feasibility, risk, and long-term sustainability. Connect planning to execution - Turn complex business ideas into clear solution pathways, helping teams move from early concept and feasibility assessment through to delivery with confidence. Enable enterprise alignment - Bring consistency across initiatives by identifying shared opportunities, surfacing interdependencies, and helping stakeholders make informed priority and investment decisions. Strengthen solution quality - Promote thoughtful, well-governed technology outcomes by evaluating options, challenging assumptions, and encouraging approaches that improve resilience, security, and operational effectiveness. Reduce delivery friction - Anticipate issues early, support teams through complex decisions, and help remove barriers that could slow progress or affect implementation quality. It's an asset if you have fulfilled leadership and advisory roles for major functions and/or initiatives with the responsibility, authority and discretion for decision-making. You also have a technical background, sufficient depth and breadth to be able to recognize and successfully exploit opportunities for effective development or usage of IT, and lead/guide fully experienced technical specialists.

  • You have highly developed analytical and conceptual skills. You are adept at developing efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex problems.

  • You are a bold and authentic leader. You're passionate about developing and coaching to bring out the best in people. You have led diverse, high performing teams.

  • You embrace and champion change. You'll continuously evolve your thinking and the way you work in order to deliver your best.

  • You're driven by collective success. You know that collaboration can transform a good idea into a great one. You understand the power of an inclusive team that enjoys working together to create a shared vision

  • 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

API Design, Collaboration, Emerging Technology Trends, Leadership, Strategic Direction, Team Development

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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