Sr. Director, Block-Chain Application Engineering

CIBC • Toronto, ON

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Digital Assets Technology is building secure, scalable capabilities that support CIBC's innovation in tokenized deposits and enterprise blockchain solutions. As a Sr. Director, Block-Chain Application Engineering, you'll lead the build-out of our digital assets engineering practice and oversee the end-to-end delivery of a complex, regulated technology program. You'll shape the engineering roadmap, establish delivery and quality standards, and guide architecture, security, and vendor decisions across multiple phases of implementation. You'll hire, develop, and lead a team of senior technical professionals while creating a strong engineering culture grounded in documentation, governance, and accountability. You'll work closely with business, risk, compliance, information security, and executive stakeholders to ensure solutions are delivered responsibly and meet internal and regulatory expectations. You'll also represent engineering decisions clearly at senior levels, helping drive progress in a fast-evolving and highly visible area of the bank.
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.

Requirements

• 12+ years of technology experience, including at least 5 years in senior engineering leadership in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience building and scaling high-performing teams and leading large, complex technology initiatives with full accountability for outcomes.
• Solid knowledge of enterprise blockchain architecture, smart contract design, permissioned networks, and tokenized deposit concepts.
• Understanding of the Canadian banking and risk landscape, including key regulatory expectations related to cybersecurity, third-party risk, outsourcing, and anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing obligations.
• Ability to work effectively with risk, audit, compliance, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Track record of turning business strategy and regulatory requirements into sequenced delivery plans, managing budgets, risks, and vendor ecosystems, and keeping complex programs moving with discipline and transparency.
• Ability to explain complex technical architecture clearly to executives, non-technical stakeholders, and external partners.
• Strong judgment, thoughtful decision-making, and credible leadership across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to bring your real self to work and live CIBC's values of trust, teamwork, and accountability in how you lead, make decisions, and support others.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to review technical decisions with confidence and ask the right questions on architecture, code quality, security tooling, and delivery readiness.

Responsibilities

• Build the engineering practice - Lead the creation of the Digital Assets engineering team by defining team structure, establishing hiring standards, partnering on recruitment, and creating onboarding and development programs for blockchain architects, senior developers, and infrastructure engineers.
• Drive delivery execution - Own the engineering roadmap and delivery model for the tokenized deposits program, ensuring milestones, budget, resources, and dependencies are managed effectively across all phases.
• Govern architecture and quality - Chair material architecture decisions, enforce documented review and approval processes, and define engineering standards for code review, testing coverage, audit readiness, deployment controls, and release quality.
• Strengthen security, risk, and compliance - Partner with Information Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure the platform meets enterprise security standards and regulatory expectations, including third-party risk, cybersecurity, audit requirements, and digital asset compliance obligations.
• Lead vendor strategy and oversight - Manage critical technology partner relationships, lead technical due diligence for new vendors, oversee service levels and delivery commitments, and support contract renewals, risk assessments, and escalation management.
• Communicate with impact - Provide clear executive reporting on progress, risks, and key decisions, and translate complex technical matters into concise updates for senior leaders, control partners, and regulators.

Benefits

• competitive salary
• incentive pay
• banking benefits
• a benefits program
• defined benefit pension plan
• an employee share purchase plan
• a 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed