Senior Solution Designer

About the Role

The Senior Solution Designer is responsible for leading the functional design and development of application systems across all technologies and platforms. The role provides consultation for senior management on a wide spectrum of existing and emerging infrastructure technologies, translating user requirements to process and data requirements and developing solutions for the business with far-reaching impact. The Senior Consultant, Application Development provides technical leadership to develop precise steps and processing logic across all platforms, ensuring the designed specifications achieve business needs. In addition, the role provides comprehensive senior level technical consulting to other IT senior management and senior technical teams. The role makes technology selection decisions that are often made in situations where business requirements are not completely defined.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will be joining the Enterprise Technology team within CIBC. As the Sr. Cloud Solution Designer you’ll be a key part of an innovative, “first to market” technology culture, contributing to key CIBC’s strategies such as digital transformation, cloud migration, automation. As a Senior Cloud Solution Designer, you’ll be part of Enterprise Business Intelligence Technology team delivering and managing enterprise-wide BI Services to broad CIBC user community. You will also be on continuous exploration and evaluation of emerging BI technology platforms, as well as cloud solutions. You will facilitate easy to use, customer-centric BI services.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How You’ll Succeed

• Collaborative Development: Contribute to the BI team goals by collaborating with other functional teams, actively looking for continued improvements in functionality, stability, capacity and performance of the BI services.
• Programming Ability: Perform, coordinate and facilitate changes to the services as required. Develop and deliver BI reports, dashboards, workflows for the home department and business partners as required. Provide guidance to users on features and capabilities to assist them in timely solution delivery. Strive to automate relevant processes for efficiency and cost savings.
• Project Delivery and Influence: Actively participate and contribute to project activities and deliverables to ensure overall quality solution delivery that aligns with business and project requirements. Monitor production and user acceptance testing support to troubleshoot complex problems in the services and underlying technologies.

Who You Are

• You can demonstrate experience in: 5+ years of cloud solution designing and implementation experience. Good understanding of Azure Cloud system architecture and cloud based data platform solutions. Established design and administration experience of business intelligence platforms and systems(Power BI/Fabric, Databricks, Alteryx, SAS Viya). Good understanding of underlying technology infrastructure, concepts of service availability, capacity, service continuity management. You have strong experience of various databases (SQL). General understanding of cloud computing, application integration (JSON, RESTFul API’s / web services).
• Your influence makes an impact. You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You inspire outcomes by making yourself heard.
• You're driven by collective success. You know that collaboration can transform a good idea into a great one. You understand the power of a team that enjoys working together to create a shared vision. You are passionate about client service - You want the work you do each day to result in a positive client experience.
• You’re digitally savvy. You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends
• Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.