What You’ll Be DoingYou’ll be joining the Banking Centre Application Development team at CIBC, supporting our frontline business and the critical applications that enable exceptional client and employee experiences. As a Solution Designer, you’ll lead technical design and delivery, support technology strategy and roadmap development, and help modernize and maintain core Banking Centre applications. You’ll design solutions for business partners that may span multiple platforms, working closely with technology teams across CIBC to deliver integrated, enterprise-scale outcomes. In this role, you’ll translate business needs into effective technical solutions, guide delivery for complex initiatives, and help shape the future of our application landscape. You’ll also play an important role in advancing innovation by identifying opportunities to improve processes, delivery practices, and solution quality.
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
- Solution Design & Delivery - Lead complex solution design activities by translating business requirements into scalable system and application designs aligned to CIBC’s technology roadmap. Design and document technical functionality, infrastructure, interfaces, and integrations to support effective delivery.
- Technology Strategy & Innovation - Contribute to technology roadmaps that support the bank’s vision, strategy, and business objectives. Develop innovative, cost-effective solutions that improve operational efficiency, encourage continuous improvement, and strengthen platform consistency.
- Leadership & Enablement - Guide the team in adopting modern practices and technologies, including the thoughtful use of artificial intelligence (AI), to improve processes, deliverables, and overall effectiveness.
- Stakeholder Collaboration - Act as the solution design lead by facilitating design review sessions, engaging stakeholders across teams, and ensuring solutions align with business requirements and architectural direction.
- Coaching &Knowledge Sharing - Support and mentor junior designers and developers through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and practical problem-solving to help build team capability.
Who You Are
- You have deep technical experience. You bring 10+ years of experience designing large-scale enterprise applications, ideally using technologies such as Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and JavaScript. You have a strong ability to assess technical information and develop solutions that meet business needs while improving operational effectiveness.
- You have strong architecture and integration expertise. You have hands-on experience with microservices architecture, cloud-native design, and integration patterns, along with strong knowledge of standards such as OAuth. You’re also experienced with Java/Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Spring, Spring Boot, web services including Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Representational State Transfer (RESTful) services, event messaging, and API gateways. Knowledge about Microsoft desktop environment is a plus.
- You’re skilled in modern engineering practices. You have working knowledge of tools and concepts such as GitHub, Microsoft Azure, Docker, cloud development, security principles, Agile delivery, and DevOps. Familiarity with Agile methodologies and cloud environments such as Kubernetes, Azure, Red Hat OpenShift (OCP), or equivalent platforms is considered an asset.
- Your influence makes an impact. You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You inspire outcomes by making yourself heard.
- You’re digitally savvy. You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.
- 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, 23rd Floor
Employment Type
Regular
Weekly Hours
37.5
Skills
Azure Stack, DevOps, Docker Container, J2EE Architecture, J2EE Platform, JavaScript, Java Spring, Leadership, Microservice Framework, Microservices Architecture, SOAP APIs, SOAP Services, Spring Boot, Technical Solution Design