Digital Assets Technology is building secure, scalable capabilities that support CIBC's innovation in tokenized deposits and enterprise blockchain solutions. Director, Block-Chain Application Engineering, you'll lead the build-out of our digital assets engineering practice and oversee the end-to-end delivery of a complex, regulated technology program. You'll shape the engineering roadmap, establish delivery and quality standards, and guide architecture, security, and vendor decisions across multiple phases of implementation.

You'll hire, develop, and lead a team of senior technical professionals while creating a strong engineering culture grounded in documentation, governance, and accountability. You'll work closely with business, risk, compliance, information security, and executive stakeholders to ensure solutions are delivered responsibly and meet internal and regulatory expectations. You’ll also represent engineering decisions clearly at senior levels, helping drive progress in a rapid-evolving and highly visible area of the bank.

Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview. Build the engineering practice - Lead the creation of the Digital Assets engineering team by defining team structure, establishing hiring standards, partnering on recruitment, and creating onboarding and development programs for blockchain architects, senior developers, and infrastructure engineers. Drive delivery execution - Own the engineering roadmap and delivery model for the tokenized deposits program, ensuring milestones, budget, resources, and dependencies are managed effectively across all phases.

Govern architecture and quality - Chair material architecture decisions, enforce documented review and approval processes, and define engineering standards for code review, testing coverage, audit readiness, deployment controls, and release quality.



Strengthen security, risk, and compliance - Partner with Information Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure the platform meets enterprise security standards and regulatory expectations, including third-party risk, cybersecurity, audit requirements, and digital asset compliance obligations. Lead vendor strategy and oversight - Manage critical technology partner relationships, lead technical due diligence for new vendors, oversee service levels and delivery commitments, and support contract renewals, risk assessments, and escalation management.

Communicate with impact - Provide clear executive reporting on progress, risks, and key decisions, and translate complex technical matters into concise updates for senior leaders, control partners, and regulators. You bring 12+ years of technology experience, including at least 5 years in senior engineering leadership in financial services or another highly regulated industry. You’re strong in digital assets and blockchain.

You have solid knowledge of enterprise blockchain architecture, smart contract design, permissioned networks, and tokenized deposit concepts. You can review technical decisions with confidence and ask the right questions on architecture, code quality, security tooling, and delivery readiness. You understand the Canadian banking and risk landscape, including key regulatory expectations related to cybersecurity, third-party risk, outsourcing, and anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing obligations.

You can work effectively with risk, audit, compliance,



and regulatory stakeholders. You have a track record of turning business strategy and regulatory requirements into sequenced delivery plans, managing budgets, risks, and vendor ecosystems, and keeping complex programs moving with discipline and transparency. You can explain complex technical architecture clearly to executives, non-technical stakeholders, and external partners.

We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program. You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit. We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills test (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency).

We use artificial intelligence tools during the recruitment process.

Job Location

Toronto-141 Bay, 11th Floor Employment Type Regular Weekly Hours 37.5 Skills Database Architecture, Database Management Systems (DBMS), Data-Driven Planning, Executive Relationship Management, Innovation Strategies, Object Oriented Database, Performance Improvements, Technical Leadership At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them. At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them. Working with CIBC makes you a part of a work environment committed to our clients, employees and communities - a place where you can excel.

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