Senior Director, Data Platforms & Engineering
About The Position
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, Data Platforms & 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.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, enterprise data platforms, data architecture, or technology leadership roles.
- Strong expertise in enterprise data engineering, ETL/ELT frameworks, distributed data processing, metadata management, and scalable data platform solutions.
- Hands-on experience with technologies such as Python, Java, Scala, SQL, and modern cloud-based data ecosystems.
- Understanding of modern engineering and operational practices including monitoring, observability, automation, platform reliability, and operational support models.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills with experience leading large-scale engineering teams and enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Passion for building scalable and trusted enterprise data capabilities that enable business outcomes and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor multiple high-performing data engineering teams while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Drive the design, development, and evolution of enterprise data engineering frameworks, standards, pipelines, metadata, and platform capabilities.
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable enterprise data solutions supporting analytics and AI initiatives.
- Champion modern engineering practices including observability, monitoring, reliability engineering, automation, and platform modernization.
- Collaborate with enterprise architecture, platform, infrastructure, governance, and delivery teams to align technology solutions with business priorities.
- Support enterprise-wide modernization initiatives by enabling scalable, governed, and trusted data capabilities across the organization.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Incentive pay
- Banking benefits
- Benefits program
- Defined benefit pension plan
- Employee share purchase plan
- Vacation offering
- Wellbeing support
- MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program
- Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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