About CIBC:

CIBC is a leading North American bank, with a history of more than 150 years of living our purpose - to help make your ambition a reality. Client relationships are at the center of our strategy, and our growth is enabled by a highly engaged and connected global team. From digital banking to community impact, we’re proud to drive progress for our clients and our communities.

Recognized for our culture, award-winning innovation and community investment, CIBC continues to evolve by putting people and progress at the centre of everything we do.

About CIBC India:

CIBC India is a technology and operations hub in Hyderabad, where you’ll be part of our highly engaged and global team, and play a central role in supporting our growth. Whether you’re driving innovation in digital banking or streamlining client onboarding, you’ll be part of a culture recognized for excellence and investment in people. At CIBC India, people and progress are at the center of what we do: you’ll develop skills, collaborate with industry leaders, and see your ideas realized in a culture that values progress and belonging.

We provide cutting-edge resources, ongoing learning, and a supportive environment where people come first. If you’re ready to create meaningful change and build your future, CIBC India is where your ambition meets opportunity.

What CIBC India Offers:

At CIBC India, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career that goes well beyond your compensation.

We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including competitive fixed pay, performance-based incentive programs, a family-first benefits program, employer contributions for your retirement, attractive time off and leave offerings, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.

Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together outstanding minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients worldwide

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.

How You’ll Succeed (responsibilities):

Technical Leadership:

- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to developers, ensuring adherence to best practices in coding, testing, and architecture.
- Set and enforce coding standards, code review processes, and documentation practices.
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, efficient applications and APIs.

Project Delivery:

- Oversee the end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring timelines, quality, and business requirements are met.
- Collaborate with product owners, designers,



and stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into actionable tasks.
- Manage task allocation, monitor progress, and remove blockers for the delivery teams.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement:

- Stay current with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry trends.
- Drive adoption of new tools and practices to improve team productivity and product quality.
- Promote a culture of learning and knowledge sharing within the team.

Product Ownership & Backlog Management:

- Own and prioritize the product backlog for the GCC engineering arm, translating business/regulatory requirements into epics, features, and user stories
- Partner with business stakeholders, compliance, and enterprise architecture to define acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements
- Balance regulatory-driven mandates (compliance deadlines, audit requirements) against feature/tech-debt work and automation/modernization initiatives
- Maintain a clear, transparent roadmap and communicate trade-offs to senior stakeholders.

Stakeholder Management & Governance:

- Act as primary technical liaison between the GCC engineering arm and onshore product/business/compliance stakeholders
- Represent the GCC arm in governance forums, steering committees, and architecture review boards
- Produce stakeholder-facing artifacts: roadmaps, RACI matrices, status reporting, one-pagers for leadership.

People Management:

- Set appropriate context when assigning work to ensure that individuals’ roles support the achievement of the business unit’s priorities and CIBC’s overall goals
- Build team and individual capabilities by providing development opportunities such as job shadowing, special projects, and training
- Manage performance by providing fair and accurate formal and informal feedback, identifying and removing obstacles to performance and by explaining how performance expectations align with business priorities
- Create a positive work environment and being an effective role model by championing CIBC’s mission, vision and values
- Ensure compliance with policies, standards, guidelines and controls by applying the policies and controls fairly and consistently so employees understand what to expect
- Hire the right people in the right jobs to align individual capabilities with job requirements and business unit goals.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

- Collaborates with peers inside and outside the work unit to identify, discuss, and resolve business issues related to application development.
- Interacts regularly with business partners,



technology teams, and vendors to obtain and exchange information, clarify requirements, and resolve issues.
- Works closely with internal clients to ensure systems and processes supporting applications are operating effectively and efficiently.

COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS/RESPONSIBILITIES:

- As an employee of CIBC, the incumbent must comply with all applicable CIBC and Line of Business policies, standards, guidelines and controls.
- As a manager of people, this job must ensure all employees within the business unit comply with all applicable CIBC and Line of Business policies, standards, guidelines and controls.

AUTHORITIES/DECISION RIGHTS:

- As a key contributor to the business unit, this job has the authority to recommend changes to business processes in order to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- As a manager of people, this job has the authority to assign tasks to employees within their span of control, select individuals for hire, assess individual performance, make employee compensation decisions and take disciplinary measures up to and including termination.

JOB DIMENSIONS:

- Engage and partner with key stakeholders to support common understanding and vision across the organization
- Communicate with the business stakeholders and take responsibility for building “the right thing” Use KPIs and digital product metrics to inform the team’s direction.

Experience: 10+ years of experience

Who You Are (skills/qualifications):

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology or related field.

Must Have Skills:

- 10+ years of experience in technology roles spanning software engineering, product ownership, and delivery leadership.
- Deep hands-on experience with BPM/case management platforms such as Pega or Appian, including case design, integrations, data archival/purging, and reporting.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power BI; exposure to Copilot Studio is an asset.
- Practical exposure to AI and automation tooling, including platform-native AI capabilities, Azure AI services, or AI-assisted engineering practices.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and providing technical direction in distributed delivery environments.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery, backlog management, and release governance.
- Experience working in regulated industries, preferably financial services, with exposure to compliance-driven delivery requirements.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and executive presentation skills.
- Ability to balance strategic priorities, regulatory commitments, technical debt, and modernization objectives.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

Good to Have:

- Banking Sector Experience

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