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 prospect.

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 great 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.

What You’ll Be Doing (position summary):

- As a hands-on Senior Data Engineer, you will build ETL, analytics, and data consumption capabilities aligned to a multi-year product roadmap. Working with Product, Architecture, Data, and business stakeholders, you will translate business goals into scalable Databricks solutions using PySpark and modern engineering practices.
- You will serve as a senior technical contributor, partnering with Data Engineers, testers, and Data Analysts to solve complex challenges in data modeling, transformation, and consumption. You will design, develop, test, and implement secure cloud data solutions using Databricks, PySpark, Delta Lake, ETL, data quality, and lineage.
- You will drive engineering excellence through production-quality PySpark, code reviews, testing, reusable frameworks, CI/CD, and Databricks performance tuning. You will troubleshoot complex pipelines, improve reliability and cost efficiency, mentor peers,



remove technical bottlenecks, and support releases.
- You will estimate technical work, identify platform optimizations, define engineering metrics, and contribute to Agile delivery through refinement, story sizing, and technical planning. You will build POCs to validate Databricks patterns and production readiness.
- Success in this role requires clear communication and technical presentation skills, with the ability to explain trade-offs, facilitate design discussions, and influence decisions through architecture and governance forums.
- This role is one of the early hires for US Technology, Data & AI at CIBC India, helping establish cross-site alignment and a strong engineering culture supporting enterprise and TDAI priorities. Work arrangements, including on-site and remote work, will be discussed during the interview process.
- At CIBC India we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (including on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How You’ll Succeed (responsibilities):

- Technical Delivery: Translate business needs into reliable Databricks data products; design and build PySpark pipelines; estimate work; manage dependencies; define quality metrics; and use GitHub Copilot responsibly within software engineering practices.
- Data Engineering and Architecture: Design secure, scalable Databricks solutions using PySpark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Azure. Improve performance through partitioning, file optimization, testing, CI/CD, observability, and technical-debt reduction.
- Risk and Compliance: Embed privacy, security, auditability, data quality, and least-privilege access in solutions; follow governance standards; and support Compliance and Audit evidence needs.
- Collaboration and Technical Mentoring: Partner across product, architecture, operations, and U.S.-based teams; communicate designs and trade-offs clearly; mentor engineers through pairing and reviews; and share reusable Databricks and PySpark patterns.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

- Technology management teams to ensure shared accountability for Technology strategy and objectives
- Enterprise Technology colleagues to ensure strategic alignment across projects
- Internal business partners including executive heads of CIBC lines of business, leadership teams, partner teams, and centers of excellence
- External technology vendors and partners providing critical solutions and services
- As an employee of CIBC, the incumbent must comply with all applicable CIBC and Line of Business policies, standards, guidelines and controls.
- As a key contributor to the business unit, this role has authority to recommend changes to business processes to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.




- Our CIBC risk culture expects employees to identify, escalate, and help mitigate risk as part of daily responsibilities. We are all accountable for managing risk.
- As an employee of CIBC, the incumbent must conduct themselves, and foster an environment for others, in a manner consistent with our strong risk culture. This includes:
- Following the CIBC Code of Conduct and all applicable policies, frameworks, guidelines, processes, and controls
- Acting in accordance with our Purpose and shared values to support the Bank’s strategic goals
- Understanding and following the qualitative and quantitative components of our Risk Appetite Statements
- Completing all required mandatory training and applying the learnings in daily work
- Escalating concerns through appropriate channels such as HR, management, Ethics Hotline, or Whistleblower
- Speaking up when witnessing behaviors that create poor or unfair outcomes for clients, team members, or stakeholders
- Escalating matters that may result in adverse market practices or reputational harm to CIBC.

Experience: 8+ years of experience

Must Have Skills:

- 8+ years of data engineering experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, ideally in financial services or technology
- 5+ years building production data applications with deep expertise in data modeling, distributed processing, and cloud data platforms
- Advanced proficiency in PySpark and Databricks, including Spark execution, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, workflows, and performance tuning
- Deep experience designing batch and streaming ingestion, transformation pipelines, data quality controls, and curated data models on Azure
- Strong Python, SQL, ETL, Azure SQL, and REST API skills, with working knowledge of Scala
- Ability to diagnose Spark jobs using execution plans and metrics, and optimize joins, partitions, caching, file sizes, clusters, and cost
- Robust automated testing and DevOps practices across Git, CI/CD, environment management, secrets, security, and release controls
- Experience implementing observability, lineage, schema evolution, failure recovery, and service-level monitoring for critical pipelines
- Proven ability to build POCs, establish reusable engineering patterns, and scale solutions to secure production workloads
- Ability to document designs, explain technical trade-offs, and present clear recommendations to engineering and business partners
- Solid collaboration skills and experience mentoring engineers through pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
- Ability to own technical delivery, identify risks early, troubleshoot complex issues, and work effectively through ambiguity
- Knowledge of data governance, privacy, access controls, and regulated-environment engineering practices.

Good to Have:

- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Skilled or Microsoft Azure data engineering certification is an asset

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📌 Senior Data Engineer-29922] (Hyderabad)
🏢 CIBC India
📍 Hyderabad