As part of CIBC’s technology team, you’ll lead our AI Applications Development function and guide a high-performing team of AI engineers, developers, and quality assurance specialists who build and support enterprise-grade AI solutions. As Director, you’ll provide technical and people leadership to drive the design, development, deployment, and ongoing evolution of advanced AI applications across the bank. You’ll work closely with technology and business partners to shape solution architecture, define integration requirements, and deliver solutions that align to strategic priorities and enterprise standards.

You’ll help ensure our AI-driven applications are secure, scalable, reliable, and well monitored, with a strong focus on cloud-native delivery, observability, and compliance. You’ll also foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, continuous improvement, and strong documentation practices while supporting your leaders and teams in delivering high-quality solutions that enhance the client experience. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.People leadership - Lead and develop a team of leaders, AI engineers, developers, and quality assurance specialists by setting clear direction, providing meaningful coaching, and creating opportunities for growth.

Strategic partnership - Build trusted relationships with technology and business partners, vendors, and senior stakeholders to understand business needs, translate them into practical AI solutions, and influence decisions through clear, business-focused communication. Technical leadership - Guide architecture and engineering decisions for enterprise AI applications, with a focus on security, scalability, performance, and reliability. Support the development and deployment of modern AI solutions using tools and technologies such as Python,



FastAPI, JavaScript frameworks, Azure AI services, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), large language models (LLMs), and agentic AI frameworks.

Quality and platform excellence - Champion strong engineering practices across cloud infrastructure, continuous integration and continuous delivery, observability, documentation, and test automation to help ensure solutions are resilient, maintainable, and ready for enterprise scale. Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, encourage reuse across teams, and help shape a shared AI strategy that scales across the enterprise.You have recently designed, built, and shipped production AI applications yourself, and you still enjoy writing code, reviewing pull requests, and solving production issues alongside the team. You bring strong technical depth.

You have hands-on experience with Python, FastAPI, JavaScript (Vue.Js or React.Js), SQL, Redis, and Azure Cloud services, including Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry and API Management. You know modern AI engineering. You have built solutions using large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt and context engineering, tool calling, and agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, LangSmith, or equivalent.

It’s an asset if you have experience with Databricks, LLM evaluation, and observability for AI agents in production (e.You design for security, scalability, reliability, and compliance,



and you understand what it takes to run AI safely in a regulated environment. You mentor engineers, set technical direction, and raise the engineering bar. You build trusted relationships with business and technology partners, translate business needs into practical AI solutions, and explain complex ideas clearly to non-technical audiences.

We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking perks, 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. a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development. *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-81 Bay, 21st Floor Employment Type Regular Weekly Hours 37.5 Skills Application Development, Coaching, Decision Making, Enterprise Technologies, Leadership, People Management, Project Management, Solutions Design, Stakeholder Management, Technical Architecture At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them. Our ability to create value for all CIBC stakeholders is driven by a business culture based on common values: Working with CIBC makes you a part of a work environment committed to our clients, employees and communities - a place where you can excel. Every day, our 48,000 employees help our clients achieve their financial goals, because what matters to our clients, matters to us. #

📌 Director Of Ai Applications Development (Winnipeg)
🏢 CIBC
📍 Winnipeg