Description:
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.
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