Sr. Consultant, Application Development

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.

To learn more about CIBC, please visit CIBC.com

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll contribute to CIBC’s Digital transformation by successfully delivering complex, enterprise-scale projects involving multiple systems.  As a Sr. Consultant within the Enterprise Payments Technology group you’ll build, implement, and enhance easy, flexible, and personalized solutions that enhance the client experience. This role turns business and architecture concepts into implementable designs and supports both the development & project management in delivering the product.  As you lead the solution and strategy for the technical design of these applications, you’ll help build the future of banking.

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

• Solution Design & Technical Consulting: Provide senior-level technical leadership to define end-to-end solutions across applications, platforms, infrastructure, interfaces, and integrations. Assess current-state systems, identify gaps, and recommend target-state architecture and implementation approaches.

• Architecture & Integration Leadership: Lead the design of complex integration solutions in a multi-application enterprise environment. Produce high-level design artifacts, resolve design challenges, and develop detailed system integration plans that align with business and architectural standards.

• Technology Evaluation & Innovation: Evaluate emerging tools, platforms, and external products/services, and recommend solutions that support strategic goals, operational efficiency, and long-term scalability. Contribute to business and technology proposals through effort estimation, cost analysis, and option assessment.

• Business Alignment & Requirements Definition: Work closely with Business Analysts and business partners to translate business needs into solution designs. Ensure functional and non-functional requirements are clearly defined, including performance, scalability, availability, resiliency, and security considerations.

Who You Are

• You can demonstrate experience with: A minimum of 8 years as a Solution or Technical Architect. You have experience leading technical teams, creating executive decks independently and are well versed at presenting to 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 through your career. Demonstrated expertise to design and deploy highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant systems on Microsoft Azure, including services such as Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Web Apps, API Management, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Traffic Manager, Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, Azure Entra ID, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, an Azure Cosmos DB. Proficient with Java Spring boot, Node.js, Python, Azure DevOps , GitHub Actions and authentication protocols such as SAML 2.0 and OIDC. Good understanding of OpenAI for building declarative AI agents to automate and optimize workflows. It’s an asset if:  You have previous expertise within Payments.

• You have a degree/diploma in: Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics or Technical discipline.

• You're digitally savvy. You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.

• Your influence makes an impact. You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You inspire outcomes by making yourself heard.

• 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. You are passionate about client service -  You want the work you do each day to result in a positive client experience.

• 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 Mailbox.careers-carrieres@cibc.com

• 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, 11th Floor

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

API Development, API Development, API Integration, API Management, Azure API Management, Azure Database For Postgresql, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Storage, Azure Virtual Machine, Cloud Architectures, Cloud Native, Collaboration, DevOps, DevSecOps, Full Stack Development, GitHub Actions, Identity Management (IdM), Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Functions, Microsoft Azure Load Balancer, Microsoft Azure SQL Database, Node.js, Programming Languages, RESTful APIs, Scalable Web Applications {+ 4 more}