Job Description

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 AI Applications Development team, you will lead a high-performing, full-stack team of AI engineers, developers, and QA specialists responsible for developing and supporting enterprise-grade AI solutions. In this leader-of-leaders role, you will provide technical leadership to ensure the successful design, development, and deployment of advanced AI applications across CIBC. You will oversee collaboration with other technology and business units to define solution architecture, integration contracts, and ensure seamless interaction between services, aligning with strategic business needs and technical standards.
You will ensure the security, scalability, and performance of AI-driven applications--including cloud-native deployments, robust observability, and compliance--while leveraging modern AI frameworks and platforms to optimize solution delivery. This role demands maintaining a high standard of technical execution, efficiency, and strong documentation practices. We are seeking a highly technical leader with expertise in AI application development, agentic AI, and enterprise delivery, 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 SucceedStrong 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: Establish and build healthy working relations and partnerships based on trust and competency with technology and business partners, vendors, and peers. Engage directly with business stakeholders to understand needs, translate them into AI solutions, and ensure delivery of measurable outcomes. Communicate complex technical concepts in a business-friendly language to influence and build trust with non-technical leaders. Technical Expertise: Leverage your extensive technical knowledge to influence architectural decisions, implement strong security practices, and foster innovation in the development of AI assets. Act as a hands-on technical lead, building and deploying AI applications using Python, FastAPI, JavaScript, Vue.js, React.js, and Azure AI services. Implement and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and apply evaluation tools (e.g., RAGAS) to ensure accuracy and reliability. Work extensively with Azure OpenAI and other large language models (LLMs), applying prompt engineering and context engineering to maximize effectiveness. Oversee infrastructure and deployments on Azure Cloud, leveraging GitHub Actions for CI/CD, with SQL and Redis for data and session management. Ensure robust QA automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent) are in place to guarantee quality and scalability of applications. 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. Drive a shared AI strategy across business units, building reusable components and unified solutions that scale across the enterprise.

Who You AreYou are a seasoned technical leader: You have 7+ years of demonstrated experience in a leadership role with a focus on technical architecture, application development, and solutions design. Required Qualifications: Proven hands-on expertise with Python, FastAPI, JavaScript, Vue.js, and modern AI frameworks. Experience working with Azure Cloud services and enterprise-grade AI deployments. Strong knowledge of SQL, Redis, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent). Experience with QA automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar). Practical experience with LLMs, RAG architectures, and prompt/context engineering. Hands-on experience with LangGraph, LangChain, LangSmith, or equivalent agentic AI frameworks. Demonstrated ability to implement observability and monitoring for AI agents in production environments. Track record of architecting and delivering enterprise-level AI solutions. Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor full-stack technical teams. Excellent business communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment. You have Technical Depth and Knowledge: You bring a strong technical background in AI application development, agentic AI, cloud-native services, and full-stack engineering. You can guide architectural decisions and ensure the delivery of secure, scalable solutions. Proven hands-on expertise with Python, FastAPI, JavaScript, Vue.js, and modern AI frameworks is required. 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, innovation, 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 an Innovative Problem Solver: You are adept at identifying opportunities for improvement and driving innovative solutions to complex challenges using AI, agentic frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, LangSmith), and modern DevOps practices. You're a Values-Driven Leader: You bring your authentic self to work and live CIBC's values of trust, teamwork, and accountability. Values matter to you: You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.

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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 knowCIBC 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, Business, Coaching, Decision Making, Enterprise Technologies, Leadership, People Management, Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Technical Architecture