Vice President, Engineering in Winnipeg

Responsibilities

• Design, development and delivery of CIBC Mellon’s digital platforms: develop the products that will provide differentiating digital services both to internal teams looking to automate and improve their operations, as well as our institutional client base who are keen to consume business data in a more modern and automated way.
• Build and Lead a High-Performing Engineering Team: Guide, mentor, and inspire a team of thoughtful and strategic software professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Rapidly add skills where needed to create an organization capable of hands-on delivery, business partnership and thought leadership across the technology organization.
• Design the right OKRs, KPIs and KBIs to drive velocity, excellent collaboration with stakeholders, quality and sustainability in all our digital products.
• Stand-up CIBC Mellon’s software development environment: develop the standards, processes, SDLC, QA/QE, CI/CD, monitoring and continuous delivery frameworks to operate with pace, control and transparency.
• Implement practices and tooling that supports an ownership culture of our platforms from within the Engineering organization, focused on continuous, iterative improvement, stability and collaboration with the business.
• Provide vision for CIBC Mellon’s cloud and data platforms: leveraging our enterprise- and business architects, develop a technical and operational platform model that ensures long-term success through sound technology choices and design.
• Ensure platforms are designed and built with necessary controls, sustainability and growth in mind from day-1.
• Define the strategic technology needs in CIBC Mellon’s roadmap: contribute technical and engineering input to the overall CIBC Mellon Technology strategy and roadmap.
• Detail the elements in our digital platform architecture and sequencing to achieve their maturity, aligned to business objectives.
• Provide critical access to key data: work with internal business functions and our clients to understand the data that is key to their operations.
• Develop a digital product suite that puts the right data in the hands of the right users through frictionless and compelling experiences.
• Embed AI and Automations as standard: experiment to understand where AI and ML technologies can expedite the engineering team’s work and add differentiating capabilities to our digital products.
• Drive innovation, experimentation and creativity: act as a thought leader for best practices in software development, DevSecOps, and agile methodologies.
• Create an engineering culture focused on business outcomes: develop an operating model where the benefit to the firm or our clients is understood and held centrally in every technical enhancement.
• Enable and catalyze citizen development: identify technology initiatives throughout our business, providing active dialogue with leaders to understand where the Technology group can add value.
• Actively drive 3rd party relationships: build a culture of strong and active partnership with key vendors.
• Deliver control and resilience above all else: ensure the Technology team seeks input from all relevant stakeholders.

Key Outcomes

• A Modern Engineering Platform: architect and deliver a scalable, secure, and innovative platform for CIBC Mellon’s internal and external-facing technology.
• A compelling digital product suite: deliver products that matter to our clients and enable enhanced ways of working to our colleagues.
• A high-performing technology team: create an engineering function comprised of staff and partners who excel at partnership, innovation and velocity.
• Consistently high control and resilience: architect, design and deliver products and platforms that have robust, transparent controls embedded.
• Scaled delivery capabilities: centralize key skills, tools and responsibilities to scale its use with control and pace.
• Effective partnerships and collaboration: foster an engineering culture of working across organizational silos.
• Successfully operating within constraints: manage budgets, timelines, resources and dependencies.
• Representing the organization: become comfortable discussing deliveries, strategy, industry trends and your own thought leadership.
• Strategic Impact: enable AI, data, and transformation initiatives with high-quality, accessible digital platforms.

Qualifications

• You are a thoughtful, technically skilled collaborator with a track record of building and leading engineering teams in complex environments.
• You thrive in hands-on roles, balancing strategic vision with the ability to execute and deliver solutions.
• You bring an appreciation for the nuances of operating in a regulated industry, and experience in all elements of the software lifecycle.
• A subject matter expert in software, SaaS and cloud platforms, you are able to translate complex concepts into actionable insights for business leaders.
• You excel at leading outcome-driven change and driving technology-based innovation in cross-functional organizations.
• Architecting, designing, building and delivering software, and the cloud platforms it runs on, to high standards.
• Implementing agile and DevSecOps methodologies, designing effective CI/CD and SDLC tooling.
• Coaching, mentoring, and uplifting those around you, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Bridging gaps between business and technology, translating opportunities to improve how we operate into priorities for our organizational data maturity.
• Transparent, collaborative and data-driven decision-making driven by tight alignment to achieving business outcomes.