The Vice-President, Data Platforms is accountable for building and operating CIBC’s enterprise data platforms as durable, reusable products. This role leads the Data Platforms team, owning platform strategy, reliability, cost efficiency, and adoption across the bank. Aligned to the “platforms over projects” principle, this role ensures that data platforms enable analytics, AI, regulatory reporting, and business outcomes with speed, safety, and scale, while embedding governance and controls by design.

As an organizational leader, this role champions:

CIBC employee experience principles:

• Always professional… so our team members can excel and be their best professional self.

• Radically simple… so our team members can focus on what they need to do and make an impact.

• Genuinely caring… so our team members can feel valued for who they are and what they contribute.

CIBC leadership capabilities:

• Envisions the future…to innovate purposefully to create new value and harness new capabilities in order to meet the evolving needs of our diverse stakeholders.

• Inspires hearts and minds…to build an inclusive culture where we make bold choices, collaborate, and empower others to take chances and do what’s right for our stakeholders.

• Drives action and impact, together…to align with urgency around what matters, making decisions with speed and always making a real difference.

What You’ll be Doing

Enterprise Data Platform Ownership

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of CIBC’s data platforms, including: cloud and hybrid data platforms, streaming and real-time data capabilities, and core analytics and Business Intelligence platform capabilities.

Platform Reliability, Scalability & Security

• Ensure high availability, performance, and resilience of enterprise data platforms.

• Embed security, privacy, and regulatory controls directly into platform guardrails.

• Ensure auditability and compliance by default.

Platform-as-a-Product Operating Model

• Operate data platforms as long-lived products with clear roadmaps, service levels, and adoption metrics.

• Drive enterprise reuse and reduce duplication across lines of business.

• Shorten time-to-value for analytics and AI teams.

FinOps & Cost Transparency

• Own Data Platform FinOps practices, including: cost visibility and optimization, capacity planning and usage-based chargeback, and balancing performance, resilience, and efficiency at scale.

Partnership with Chapters & Delivery Teams

• Partner closely with the Data Engineering Chapter to ensure platforms align with engineering standards.

• Enable business-aligned delivery teams with paved paths and self-service capabilities.

• Act as a force multiplier for enterprise delivery.

What We’re Looking For

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related field is strongly preferred.

• Extensive background in information technology disciplines with specific knowledge of technology, applications, mid-range computing, Internet, processing environments, and system development tools and methodologies sufficient to identify and evaluate new technological developments and gauging their appropriateness for the business.

• Extensive knowledge and experience in data management, analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, capability design and application within large, global corporate settings.

• Advanced knowledge of strategic, business and financial planning processes.

• Exceptionally strong influencing skills sufficient to significantly promote and/or negotiate on behalf of CIBC in situations that involve recognizing and responding to underlying concerns where others need to be persuaded to accept compromise solutions.

• Advanced presentation and communication skills sufficient to convey complex conceptual information/ideas on issues involving extensive interpretation and opinion, to communicate with and understand the needs of non-technical internal clients, partners and customers.

• Strategic orientation with ability to act tactically, as required.

• Ability to manage, prioritize, and balance the diverse needs of the environment, including risk objectives, front-line business revenue and customer objectives, enterprise-wide objectives, employee development needs, and budget constraints. Setting expectations appropriately.

• Excellent conceptual and critical thinking skills.

• Excellent problem-solving skills sufficient to creatively develop unique approaches and solutions to resolve complex problems.

• Exceptional problem solving skills to creatively develop unique approaches and solutions that are necessary to address complex problems.

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

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