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CIBC Digital Transformation Lead Engineer in Toronto, Ontario
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 (https://www.cibc.com/en/about-cibc.html)
What You’ll Be Doing
You will be joining CIBC’s Infrastructure Technology team. As a Digital Transformation Lead Engineer you will bring experience specifically in working with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. This role is for you if you are passionate about building innovative solutions with new challenges and technologies while making an impact.
As a Digital Transformation Lead Engineer you will be responsible for providing technical recommendations and subject matter expertise to ensure stable, reliable production and non-production environments for complex sharing initiatives in compliance with established controls, standards, policies, and procedures. In this role, you will collaborate with and act as an advisor to the senior management, utilizing a solid understanding of business dynamics to analyze and protect production and non-production environment integrity and mitigate risks, present and recommend solutions using available resources for complex initiatives with key dependencies. You will provide technical leadership, interpreting complex information and coordinating client, provider, and vendor relationships to meet and manage service expectations, aligned to best practices. In addition, you will also participate in the development of the team to maximize individual contributions and professional growth, functioning effectively with colleagues.
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
Leadership & Communication:
Provide technical leadership during the design, develop, configuration, implementation and maintenance phases of major public and private Cloud technologies and automation tooling in a multi-platform environment.
Lead the evaluation, selection and implementation of new and emerging products and techniques; support the development of business/technology proposals by estimating implementation costs and evaluating options.
Collaborate with senior leaders across the company and make informed recommendations to enhance Cloud related offering & solutions. Weigh business needs against technology of offerings, security concerns and provide recommendations which are practical and achievable.
Governance:
Proactively contribute to governance initiatives in the development of company policies, audit requirements etc. Provide technical or business guidance to clients within and outside your own department.
Engineering:
Provide automation expertise within core automation DevOps tool chain and orchestration expertise in Provisioning and Public Cloud.
Determine standards and roadmaps for hardware and software. Decide how infrastructure is built and recommends Cloud-based standards for organization wide initiatives based on area of expertise.
Conduct major studies regarding system usage, make recommendations for improvements, and determine infrastructure system requirements.
Design, develop and test emerging Cloud-based software solutions.
Provide ongoing analysis and evaluation of test plan, all additions and changes to ensure they are introduced in a manner that protects the integrity of the environment and mitigates risks.
Provide in-depth subject matter expertise to perform broad impact analysis, present alternative solutions, and make recommendations for complex initiatives and projects.
Work with the Enterprise Architecture team on identifying requirements and design for continuous evolution of Cloud-based solutions.
Manage clients, providers and vendor relationships to ensure service expectations are understood, managed and met.
Support both production and non-production Cloud platform environments and hosted applications.
Implement production and non-production changes to Cloud platforms and applications following established change management policies.
Who You Are
You can demonstrate 15+ years' experience in design, develop, implement and support of technical innovation & technology-based solutions on Cloud platforms.
You have strong experience or knowledge with:
Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
IBM Cognos, Sybase, Oracle, Tableau, MongoDB, IMS DB, SQL, MySQL, Microsoft PowerBI and Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Agent, Power Page, Dataverse).
Microsoft's Azure, ARM Templating, Azure DevOps Pipeline implementation of “infrastructure as code” deliveries, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), and monitoring/hardening/policing/templating/delivery of AWS and Azure Services will be essential.
AWS, multi-account Organizations, Control Tower, Cloud Formation implementation of “infrastructure as code”, as well as delivery of other AWS Services will be key to your success.
Proficiency with Python, Bicep, JSON and PowerShell scripting.
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and network and security related solutions is required.
Proficient with tools such as ServiceNow, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, and have expertise in Continuous Integration (CI)/ Continuous Delivery (CD).
Understanding of Waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies, terminologies and ceremonies.
Windows Server, Linux/Unix and Middleware tier.
Azure Firewalls, ExpressRoute & IPSec Tunnels, Virtual WAN, WAF, Network Security Groups (NSG) and other network and security components of Azure will be valuable.
Knowledge of the existing and planned software technology and the global, regional and local software architecture and infrastructure components.
Familiarity with hardware technology and the global, regional and local hardware architecture.
Knowledge of approaches, tools and techniques for anticipating, recognizing, and resolving technical (hardware, software, application or operational) problems.
Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques and roles and responsibilities in providing technical or business guidance to clients within and outside own area.
Knowledge of the data center operating environment and day-to-day operational requirements.
It is an asset if you have AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP certifications, as well as ITIL certifications would be considered as assets.
You are a Problem Solver - You have knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems.
You have ability to manage multiple priorities - Ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups or activities. Effective judgment in prioritizing and time allocation.
You have strong interpersonal and relationship building skills - You have knowledge of approaches, tools and techniques for working with individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
You have decision making and critical thinking skill - You have knowledge of tools and techniques for effective use of a broad range of factors, assumptions, frameworks and perspectives when solving problems
You act like an owner - You thrive when you're empowered to take the lead, go above and beyond, and deliver results.
You're digitally savvy - You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.
You look beyond the moment - You make decisions and take actions that will make a difference today and tomorrow. You proactively seek new opportunities to define what's possible.
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 work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive compensation, a banking benefit*, wellbeing support and additional offers such as employee and family assistance programs 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.
*Subject to 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.
Expected End Date
2025-02-28
Job Location
Toronto-81 Bay, 32nd Floor
Employment Type
Regular
Weekly Hours
37.5
Skills
Analytical Thinking, Client Service, Infrastructure Management (IM), Mitigated Risks, Technical Leadership, Test Environments, Vendor Management
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.
