Sr. Consultant, Solution Design

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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

As a Sr. Consultant- Solution Design, you will be accountable for creating the solution design for new initiatives and contribute to the overall design strategy of the Alternative Solutions Group and Simplii Financial line of business. Your mandate requires effectively and accurately translating functional and non-functional business requirements into technical solutions. This includes ensuring alignment of solution designs with low level app designs, and creating reasonable interim solutions of the various phases/workstreams, while considering the desired overall target state outcomes including ease of on-going support.  Additionally, you will be accountable for remediating any design and build issues that may arise.

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

• Design & Develop : Provide comprehensive senior level technical consulting to senior IT management and technical teams, working closely with multiple Technology groups and LOBs to identify and evaluate existing applications and determine the best and most relevant approaches and next steps.
• Technical Solutions: Define end to end technical solutions that take into account the enterprise architecture strategies, current state environment and constraints for enterprise payments systems including payments originating channels, Payment Services Hubs, Payment Engines and Payment rails. Analyze the viability of solutions to meet product timelines, budget and quality. Present the solution to different stakeholders as needed.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with business and technology partners to translate features and requirements to technical design and act as the lead designer for the program. Support business by helping drive solutions that meet the business goals and strategies.
• Design Council: Lead the design council, which will be a forum with key stakeholders to determine key aspects of the solution, ensure buy-in of the solution design from key stakeholders, and remediate any design issues that may arise
• Relationship Management: Establish and manage relationships with key stakeholders and executive management; interface and maintain communications with Business and Technology management; develop rapport with vendor stakeholders for vendor applications that will be in the target state solution.

Who You Are

• You can demonstrate experience: minimum of 3-6 years as a Solution or Technical Architect/Consultant. You have excellent knowledge of various types of technologies, deeply aware of new trends and new industry tech stacks. You have experience of providing guidance to technical teams, creating executive decks independently and are well versed at presenting to project teams as well as executives. Experience working with business and architecture teams to develop and design technology solutions is essential to this role. Ideally, you have progressed through application development, analysis and design Solid experience with a variety of technologies/frameworks including event-driven architecture, REST APIs, microservice architecture, CI/CD processes, DevOps pipelines, etc. Product & Domain knowledge Fintech, digital banking, Payments, Foreign Exchange, International Remittance would be a great asset.
• You have a degree / diploma in : Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics or Technical discipline; a Master’s degree or a PHD would be an asset
• You embrace and champion change: You’ll continuously evolve your thinking and the way you work in order to deliver your best.  You empower and enable your team to make continuous improvement, go above and beyond, and deliver results.
• You're driven by collective success. You know that collaboration can transform a good idea into a great one. You understand the power of a 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

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.

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