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 advantages 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 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 partners, you will translate requirements into scalable solutions using Databricks, PySpark, enterprise standards, and contemporary engineering practices.
- You will design, develop, test, and support secure cloud-based data solutions across ingestion, transformation, data quality, lineage, and consumption. You will create reliable Databricks pipelines, write efficient PySpark code, and apply sound data-modeling practices to solve business problems.
- You will contribute to engineering excellence through clean code, peer reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, observability,



and disciplined sprint delivery. You will troubleshoot pipeline failures, tune Spark workloads, improve data reliability, and support releases with guidance from senior engineers.
- You will estimate assigned work, identify performance and cost improvements, participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies, and build POCs to validate technical approaches. You will collaborate on story refinement, implementation planning, production support, and continuous improvement.
- Success in this role requires clear communication, curiosity, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with engineers, analysts, product partners, and business stakeholders while explaining technical decisions and trade-offs.
- This role supports US Technology, Data & AI at CIBC India, contributing to cross-site delivery and a strong engineering culture aligned with 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):

- Data Engineering Delivery: Develop and maintain batch and streaming pipelines in Databricks using PySpark and SQL. Translate stories into tested code, follow engineering standards, document solutions, and use GitHub Copilot responsibly to improve development productivity.
- Technical Design and Quality: Implement secure, scalable, and resilient data solutions. Apply Delta Lake patterns, medallion architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and Spark performance tuning while reducing defects and technical debt.
- Risk and Compliance: Follow privacy, security, data-governance, and audit requirements; protect sensitive data; maintain lineage and controls; and promptly identify and escalate delivery or production risks.
- Collaboration and Growth: Work with product, architecture, analysts, operations, and U.S.-based teams; communicate status and trade-offs clearly; participate in peer reviews; share knowledge; and continuously build expertise in Databricks, PySpark, and cloud data engineering.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

- Data engineering, architecture, product, and quality teams to deliver reliable data solutions
- Enterprise Technology colleagues to follow shared platforms, standards, and controls
- Business analysts and data consumers to clarify requirements and validate outcomes
- Technology vendors and partners supporting approved tools 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 contributor to the business unit, this role identifies and recommends practical improvements to data pipelines, engineering processes, and operational efficiency.
- 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: 5+ years of related experience

Must Have Skills:

- 5+ years of data engineering or software development experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Hands-on experience building data pipelines with Databricks, PySpark, and SQL
- Strong Python fundamentals and working knowledge of Spark Data Frames, transformations, joins, window functions, and UDFs
- Experience with Delta Lake, medallion architecture, schema evolution, partitioning, and data-quality checks
- Ability to ingest structured and semi-structured data from files, databases, APIs, and cloud storage
- Understanding of Spark performance tuning, including caching, shuffle reduction, partition sizing, and query-plan analysis
- Experience writing unit tests, debugging failures, monitoring jobs, and supporting production pipelines
- Working knowledge of Git, pull requests, CI/CD, environment configuration, secrets, and release practices
- Knowledge of Azure data services, cloud storage, Azure SQL, and REST APIs
- Ability to understand requirements, estimate work, document designs, and deliver independently with appropriate guidance
- Clear written and verbal communication with technical and business partners
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, ownership, and willingness to learn
- Exposure to Agile delivery and financial-services data is preferred

Good to Have:

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

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📌 Data Engineer II-29921] (Hyderabad)
🏢 CIBC India
📍 Hyderabad