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

The Senior Consultant, Application Development is responsible for leading the functional design and development of application systems across the technology stack. The Senior Consultant, Application Development also provides technical leadership to develop precise steps and processing logic across the platform, ensuring the designed specifications achieve business needs and follows correct coding standards and best practices. In addition, the role provides comprehensive senior level technical consulting to other IT senior management and senior technical teams. The role makes technology selection decisions that are often made in situations where business requirements are not completely defined. In this team the candidate is expected to work on Capital Markets Technology, related to funding and collateral management. There are combination of greenfield project including DEVOPs deliverables and new business tools/reporting, TechDebt work such as platform and infrastructure upgrades and smaller enhancements and bug fixes for currently live platform. Our backend is mainly built on C# Lucid platform, in addition to smaller use cases and functionalities within Autosys, Databricks and Batch scripts.

Additionally 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 1-2 day per week on-site, while other days will be remote. 

How You’ll Succeed

• Ownership and End to End Delivery: Understand the requirements and find avenues to fill any gaps within them. Deploy code changes and unit tests along with assisting BA’s to perform functional testing. Assist QA with regression testing and make sure code is part of release timeline/package and instructions are provided to release managers. Finally verify and or assist release manager/management with deployment is necessary.
• Strategic Development & Execution: Perform and coordinate complex solution design activities. Understand the business requirements and translate them into system and application design that is aligned with our technology roadmap, using best practices and standards within the team and the enterprise. Design and document the technical functionality, infrastructure, interfaces, and integrations.
• Strategy and Roadmap: Contribute to technology roadmaps that are aligned with the bank’s vision, strategy, and business objectives. Lead multiple complex technology solutions while maintaining consistency across the platform, adopting best practices and pushing forward continuous improvements
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the solution lead and interface with the project teams by driving and moderating design review sessions to walk stakeholders through and ensure that the overall design aligns with business requirements as well as architectural directions. Support and mentor junior designers and developers through knowledge sharing, collaboration and effective problem solving
• Required Skills and Experience: Have proficiency and knowledge/experience with: C# .NET, TSQL/SQL, GITHUB/GIT, Batch Script/Powershell, ETL Processes and Capital Markets Technology/Business.
• Tech savvy – An asset if you possess experience with ETL, WebAPI/Rest Services, Databricks (Scala or Python), Python, Autosys, Azure Cloud Services and Messaging Services (Solace/MQ)

Who You Are

• You can demonstrate 5+ years’ experience in. Designing, developing, implementing and supporting applications with expertise in most of the following: C#.NET, Databases (TSQL/MSSQL), Python and development Tools(source control/issue management: Git, TFS, JIRA, Azure DevOps).
• You love to take ownership. You can take any task given to you and complete it without requiring too much super-vision and using all tools and steps necessary to complete the task
• You embrace and champion change. You are passionate about being on top of technology trends. You'll continuously evolve your thinking and the way you work in order to deliver your best.
• You’re digitally savvy. You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.
• You have a degree/diploma: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or Technical discipline.
• 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 [email protected]

• 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.

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