Solution Lead

How Youll Succeed (responsibilities):

DevOps Strategy and Roadmap:

• Develop and communicate the strategic roadmap for DevOps practices, tooling, and enablement to support enterprise technology objectives.
• Align DevOps architecture direction with Enterprise Architecture standards, roadmaps, and enterprise-wide strategy to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Lead enterprise DevOps transformation by promoting cultural, process, and technology changes that improve software delivery effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and modernize the software delivery lifecycle through enterprise tooling and reusable design patterns.
• Architecture and Solution Design
• Make architectural decisions that streamline and optimize the enterprise software delivery toolchain and its integrations.
• Design and implement scalable CI/CD frameworks using GitHub Actions and related technologies to improve deployment consistency, efficiency, and control.
• Define reusable architectural patterns, workflows, and automation standards that support broad adoption across technology teams.
• Guide the design of custom actions, scripts, and integration approaches to meet enterprise and team-specific delivery requirements.

Toolchain Governance and Administration:

• Oversee the strategic administration and integration approach for key platforms including GitHub, JFrog Artifactory, and SonarQube.
• Ensure enterprise tooling is effectively embedded into the development lifecycle and aligned to engineering, operational, and governance requirements.
• Support the evolution of toolchain capabilities by evaluating platform needs, integration patterns, and improvement opportunities.
• Establish standards and recommendations for secure, scalable, and efficient platform usage across development and operations teams.
• Compliance, Risk, and Audit Enablement
• Develop and implement strategies to support compliance with internal and external audit requirements related to access management, controls, and sensitive information handling.
• Ensure architectural designs and toolchain practices align with applicable governance, security, and control expectations.
• Recommend and support solutions that improve traceability, policy adherence, and secure software delivery practices across the enterprise.
• Partner with stakeholders to strengthen controls within DevOps processes while maintaining efficient developer experience.
• Mentorship, Advisory, and Cross-Functional Leadership
• Mentor and guide DevOps engineers and partner teams by sharing knowledge, promoting best practices, and supporting technical growth.
• Provide senior advisory support to application development, quality assurance, operations, infrastructure, and business teams on DevOps architecture and toolchain adoption.
• Provide hands-on support to resolve onboarding, configuration, and workflow challenges in support of successful tool adoption
• Collaborate with team leads across technology groups to deliver high-quality, scalable, and practical engineering solutions.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative environment that encourages experimentation, continuous learning, and shared ownership of outcomes.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement:

• Challenge existing delivery approaches and identify opportunities to improve deployment processes, engineering productivity, and operational reliability.
• Advance production monitoring, infrastructure automation, and platform engineering capabilities through strategic design and experimentation.
• Evaluate emerging practices and technologies to improve the enterprise DevOps ecosystem and future-state architecture.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the onboarding and lifecycle experience for internal technology teams.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

• This role collaborates closely with application development leaders and teams to define and enable enterprise DevOps architecture, standards, and delivery patterns.
• This role partners with quality assurance, operations, and infrastructure teams to design integrated, scalable, and supportable toolchain solutions.
• This role works with business units and technology leaders to understand needs, prioritize roadmap initiatives, and ensure solutions align with enterprise objectives.
• This role collaborates with the Enterprise Architecture team to maintain alignment between DevOps tooling strategy and broader technology roadmaps.
• This role interacts with engineering and platform teams to guide implementation of CI/CD frameworks, workflow standards, and automation capabilities.
• This role may work with security, risk, compliance, and audit stakeholders to support governance, access management, and control requirements across the software delivery lifecycle.

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.

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.

JOB DIMENSIONS:

• Enterprise scope role influencing DevOps practices, tooling strategy, and software delivery architecture across multiple technology groups.
• Supports broad internal stakeholder groups including application development, quality assurance, operations, infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and business units.
• Provides architectural leadership for enterprise tooling including GitHub, GitHub Actions, JFrog Artifactory, SonarQube, and related automation and platform capabilities.
• Contributes to enterprise transformation through strategy, roadmap development, standards definition, mentoring, and cross-functional solution design.

Experience: 10+ years of experience

Who You Are (skills/qualifications):

Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Must Have Skills:

• 10+years of experience in DevOps platform architecture, software design, or related roles with strong focus on strategic planning and architectural design.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise DevOps practices, software delivery lifecycle design, and CI/CD architecture.
• Strong experience leading administration and strategic integration of GitHub Enterprise, JFrog Artifactory, and SonarQube.
• Advanced experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and reusable workflow patterns.
• Experience designing scalable solutions for containerized and cloud-native environments.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and/or shell scripting such as Bash or PowerShell.
• Proven ability to make sound architectural decisions that improve scalability, reliability, governance, and developer experience.
• Strong mentoring and technical leadership capability, with experience guiding engineers and fostering collaborative team environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Proven solution development experience with strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and ability to translate complex requirements into practical architectural solutions.
• Experience with GitHub Advanced Security.
• Experience with Ansible, Docker, Helm, OpenShift, AKS, and broader Kubernetes ecosystem tooling.
• Experience with system administration and platform engineering practices in enterprise environments.
• Experience building strategic roadmaps and target-state architectures in partnership with enterprise architecture functions.
• Continuous improver: You proactively spot risks, inefficiencies, and quality gapsand you take ownership to fix them with proven ability to champion change.
• Strong collaborative skills with ability tocommunicate clearly with both technical and non-technical partners, and you can influence without authority to drive better outcomes.
• Experience in audit, compliance, access control, and sensitive information management within DevOps or platform architecture contexts.

Good to Have:

• Experience with Snyk application security scanning (SAST and SCA testing)

About CIBC:

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