Senior Director, Enterprise Data Engineering

We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients.

At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

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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

What you need to know

• CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact [email protected]

• CIBC is committed to clarity in our hiring process. All roles posted are opportunities we’re actively recruiting for, unless stated otherwise.

• You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.

• We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills test (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency).

• We use artificial intelligence tools during the recruitment process. Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.

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