What you'll be doingThe Data & Artificial Intelligence Office is at the forefront of transforming how CIBC leverages data and AI to deliver exceptional experiences for our internal clients and drive business outcomes. As a Senior Consultant, Application Development, you'll lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade AI solutions, including our generative AI platforms and CIBC AI initiatives. You'll guide architectural decisions across agentic AI, cloud-native services, and full-stack engineering, while mentoring senior technical leaders and partnering with executives and cross-functional teams. You'll drive technical strategy that aligns with business goals, championing innovation through modern AI frameworks, agentic architectures, and DevOps best practices. This is an opportunity to shape the future of AI at CIBC while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
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
- Technical leadership & architecture - Lead architectural decisions for AI application development, ensuring secure, scalable, and enterprise-grade solutions across agentic AI, cloud-native services, and full-stack engineering for our generative AI platforms and CIBC AI initiatives.
- Hands-on engineering excellence - Drive development using Python, FastAPI, JavaScript, Vue.js, and modern AI frameworks, while establishing best practices for large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures, and prompt engineering.
- Team leadership & development - Build, mentor, and inspire large, diverse teams that include senior managers and technical specialists, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
- Internal client partnership - Establish trusted relationships with executives, internal stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to align technology initiatives with long-term business objectives and deliver solutions that empower our internal clients.
- Innovation & problem solving - Identify opportunities to drive innovative solutions to complex challenges using agentic frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, LangSmith) and modern DevOps practices.
- Operational excellence - Implement observability, monitoring, and quality assurance frameworks to ensure the reliability and performance of AI agents in production environments.
Who you are
- You demonstrate experience in Python, FastAPI, JavaScript, Vue.js, and modern AI frameworks, with 7+ years of demonstrated experience in a leadership role focused on technical architecture, application development, and solutions design. It's an asset if you have hands-on experience with LangGraph, LangChain, LangSmith, Azure Cloud services, SQL, Redis, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent), and QA automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium).
- You put our clients first. You engage with purpose to find the right solutions for our internal clients. You go the extra mile, because it's the right thing to do.
- 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 excel at building strong relationships with executives, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. You are a trusted advisor and effective communicator who thrives in fast-paced, agile environments.
- You look beyond the moment. You align technology initiatives with business goals and drive long-term success through innovative thinking and strategic foresight on platforms like generative AI and CIBC AI.
- You have a degree/diploma in Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
- 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
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, 21st Floor
Employment Type
Regular
Weekly Hours
37.5
Skills
Analytical Thinking, Application Development, Database Management Systems (DBMS), Emerging Technologies, Project Management Technology, Technical Consulting, Technical Leadership, User Requirements, Work Collaboratively
