What you'll be doing

The Global Technology, Data and Artificial Intelligence (GTDAI) team at CIBC is responsible for delivering scalable, secure, and modern technology solutions that enable innovation across the enterprise. This team plays a critical role in advancing enterprise data capabilities that support analytics, operational efficiency, and AI initiatives across the bank. As the Senior Director, Enterprise Data Engineering, you'll lead the development and evolution of enterprise data engineering capabilities, standards, and platforms across CIBC. You'll provide strategic leadership to multiple engineering teams responsible for building scalable and reliable data solutions that support business and technology objectives. Working closely with business leaders, technology partners, architecture, and platform teams, you'll help drive modernization, operational excellence, and trusted enterprise data capabilities across the organization.

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

• Leadership - Lead and mentor multiple high-performing data engineering teams while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Data Engineering - Drive the design, development, and evolution of enterprise data engineering frameworks, standards, pipelines, metadata, and platform capabilities.
• Strategic Delivery - Partner with business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable enterprise data solutions supporting analytics and AI initiatives.
• Engineering Excellence - Champion modern engineering practices including observability, monitoring, reliability engineering, automation, and platform modernization.
• Stakeholder Management - Collaborate with enterprise architecture, platform, infrastructure, governance, and delivery teams to align technology solutions with business priorities.
• Transformation - Support enterprise-wide modernization initiatives by enabling scalable, governed, and trusted data capabilities across the organization.

Who you are

• You can demonstrate 10+ years of progressive experience in. data engineering, enterprise data platforms, data architecture, or technology leadership roles. You have strong expertise in enterprise data engineering, ETL/ELT frameworks, distributed data processing, metadata management, and scalable data platform solutions. You can demonstrate hands-on experience with technologies such as Python, Java, Scala, SQL, and modern cloud-based data ecosystems. You understand modern engineering and operational practices including monitoring, observability, automation, platform reliability, and operational support models.
• You're passionate about people. You have strong leadership and stakeholder management skills with experience leading large-scale engineering teams and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• You act like an owner. You're passionate about building scalable and trusted enterprise data capabilities that enable business outcomes and innovation.
• Values matter to you. You bring your real self 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, 20th Floor

Employment Type
Regular

Weekly Hours
37.5

Skills
Application Development, Coaching, Decision Making, Enterprise Technologies, Leadership, Long Term Planning, People Management, Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Technical Architecture