CIBC

Senior Analytics Engineer, Borrowing Solutions

CIBC$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of progressive experience in data engineering or analytics engineering, preferably in financial services.
  • Proficient in Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, and Spark SQL with modern data platforms.
  • Skilled in dimensional modeling, data quality controls, and performance optimization practices.
  • Experience with Power BI semantic models and understanding of self-serve analytics.
  • Practical AI/ML literacy, particularly with LLMs and generative AI for business insights.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to translate business needs into technical data solutions.
  • Commitment to values of trust, teamwork, and accountability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead data modernization initiatives by building and maintaining Databricks Lakehouse architectures.
  • Develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to ensure data quality across multiple layers.
  • Create reusable Gold-layer data models for analytics and reporting.
  • Deliver Power BI datasets and dashboards for scalable, role-based reporting.
  • Design AI-driven insights features that provide business value.
  • Act as the technical lead for migration workstreams and operational readiness.
  • Establish engineering standards for Databricks and Power BI environments, promoting best practices.

Benefits

  • Recognition through meaningful, personalized incentives including a competitive salary and banking benefits.
  • Access to a defined benefit pension plan and employee share purchase plan.
  • Offering a vacation and wellbeing support to enhance employee experience.
  • Opportunity for growth through Purpose Day, a paid day off for personal development.
  • Innovative spaces and technology to foster collaboration and creativity.
Full Job Description

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Analytics Engineer, Borrowing Solutions, you'll be a key member of the AI, Data & Analytics Office, reporting to the Director, Frontline Analytics & Insights - Borrowing Solutions.  You’ll support Borrowing Solutions and Alternate Channels within Personal Banking by transforming, modelling, testing, and organizing data so analysts and business partners can rely on trusted datasets to make informed decisions.  You'll play a critical role in driving data modernization initiatives that enable outcome-based, data-driven decision-making across frontline business functions. You'll design and build scalable data pipelines, modernize backend data models, and deliver AI-driven capabilities that empower analysts and business partners to self-serve insights. Your focus will be on automating and scaling solutions that transform fragmented, manual reporting into governed, reusable data products and reporting solutions. You’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders to ensure data assets are accurate, well-structured, and aligned to enterprise standards, while helping enable more proactive, outcome-based decision-making across the business.

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

  • Lead Data Modernization Initiatives – Build and maintain Databricks Lakehouse architectures, migrating manual reporting processes into automated Delta Lake pipelines.

  • Develop Scalable ETL/ELT Pipelines – Design, implement, and own transformation logic across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers, ensuring data quality, reconciliation, and maintainability.

  • Build Governed Data Models – Create reusable Gold-layer data models that support frontline analytics and self-serve reporting, applying dimensional modeling and performance optimization practices.

  • Enable Self-Serve Reporting – Deliver Power BI semantic models, datasets, and dashboards, supporting scalable reporting and role-based data access.

  • Integrate AI-Enabled Capabilities – Design and implement practical AI-driven insight features, including automated narrative generation and natural-language querying, where they add measurable business value.

  • Act as Technical Lead – Lead migration workstreams, drive technical planning, documentation, and operational readiness, ensuring solutions are supportable and scalable.

  • Establish Engineering Standards – Promote reusable patterns, coding standards, and CI/CD practices suitable for Databricks and Power BI environments.

  • Bridge Business and Engineering - Translate business questions and reporting requirements into technical data solutions, partnering closely with stakeholders to ensure models and datasets reflect business priorities and decision-making needs.

Who you are

  • You bring strong data engineering / analytics engineering experience. You have 5+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related field, ideally within financial services or another regulated, data-intensive environment.

  • You have experience with modern data platforms. You’re proficient in Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, Spark SQL, and medallion architecture, with the ability to develop scalable solutions that support both analytics and engineering outcomes.

  • You’re highly skilled in data modeling and analytics. You apply dimensional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, data quality controls, reconciliation, and performance optimization at scale.

  • You understand reporting and self-serve analytics. You have experience supporting Power BI semantic models, datasets, DAX, and role-based data access, with an understanding of how trusted data foundations enable strong reporting experiences.

  • You have practical AI/ML literacy. You know when to apply machine learning or deterministic logic and have experience with LLMs and generative AI for business insights.

  • You’re a strong communicator and collaborator.  You can translate business requirements into effective data solutions, communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical partners, and help ensure data products are practical, usable, and aligned to decision-making needs.

  • Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work, and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.

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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, 28th Floor

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Analytical Thinking, Business Effectiveness, Client Service, Communication, Detail-Oriented, Process Improvements, Professional Presentation, Relationship Management, Teamwork

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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