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 As the Director of CIBC’s Digital Banking API Development (eBanking) team, you will lead a high-performing team of designers, developers, and application consultants responsible for developing and supporting CIBC’s Online & Mobile middle-tier APIs. In this leader-of-leaders role, you will provide technical leadership to ensure the successful design, development, and delivery of Digital Banking API services for CIBC and Simplii Financial. You will oversee collaboration with other development teams to define integration contracts and ensure seamless interaction between services, aligning with business needs and technical standards. You will also ensure the security, scalability, and performance of Service APIs—including Cloud Native services, Akamai protection, and API security scans—while leveraging API management platforms to optimize API usage. This role demands maintaining a high standard of delivery, efficiency in execution, and strong documentation practices. We are seeking a highly technical leader with expertise in API development and integration who genuinely cares about the well-being and success of the team. You will foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement while championing high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions that align with CIBC’s digital priorities and enhance the client experience. 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 during your interview. How You’ll Succeed Strong Leadership: Be a bold and authentic leader who is passionate about developing and coaching others to bring out their best. Provide clear context when assigning work to align individual roles with business priorities and CIBC’s goals. Build team capabilities through development opportunities such as training, special projects, and job shadowing. Manage performance by offering fair feedback, removing obstacles, and ensuring expectations align with business objectives. Foster a positive work environment by championing CIBC’s mission, vision, and values, and ensure compliance with policies and controls. Hire and develop talent to align individual strengths with business needs. Relationship Management: Ability to establish and build healthy working relations and partnerships based on trust and competency with tech and business partners, vendors and peers. Technical Expertise: Leverage your extensive technical knowledge to influence architectural decisions, implement strong security practices, and foster innovation in the development of digital banking assets. Delivery Focused: Work closely with internal partners to determine, negotiate and manage projects to the agreed upon timeline. Monitor finances identify opportunities for improvement and recommend appropriate solutions. Under your leadership implement projects in a timely fashion that are of high quality, low cost and on budget. Who You Are You are a seasoned technical leader. You have 5+ years of demonstrated experience in a leadership role with a focus on technical architecture, application development and solutions design. You have Technical Depth and Knowledge: You bring a strong technical background in API development and design, as well as cloud-native services. You can guide architectural decisions and ensure the delivery of secure, scalable solutions. A minimum of 10+ years of hands-on Java development experience is required for this role. You're an experienced Leader of Leaders. You have experience leading large, diverse teams, including senior managers and technical specialists. You excel at developing leaders and fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability. You're a Strategic Thinker. You have a proven ability to align technology initiatives with business goals and drive long-term success. You're a Relationship Builder. You excel at building strong relationships with executives, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. You are a trusted advisor and effective communicator. You're a Innovative Problem Solver. You are adept at identifying opportunities for improvement and driving innovative solutions to complex challenges. You're a Values-Driven Leader. You bring your authentic self to work and live CIBC’s values of trust, teamwork, and accountability. #LI-TA 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 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 tests (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency, MS Office). 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, 19th Floor Employment Type Regular Weekly Hours 37.5 Skills Application Development, Coaching, Decision Making, Enterprise Technologies, Leadership, People Management, Project Management, Solutions Design, Stakeholder Management, Technical Architecture At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them. Our ability to create value for all CIBC stakeholders is driven by a business culture based on common values: Trust, Teamwork and Accountability. Working with CIBC makes you a part of a work environment committed to our clients, employees and communities - a place where you can excel. Every day, our 44,000 employees help our clients achieve their financial goals, because what matters to our clients, matters to us.
