Vice President, Engineering

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• Design, development and delivery of CIBC Mellon’s digital platforms: develop the products that will provide differentiating digital services both to internal teams looking to automate and improve their operations, as well as our institutional client base who are keen to consume business data in more modern and automated way.
• Build and Lead a High-Performing Engineering Team:
  Guide, mentor, and inspire a team of thoughtful and strategic software professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. Rapidly add skills where needed to create an organization capable of hands-on delivery, business partnership and thought leadership across the technology organization. Design the right OKRs, KPIs and KBIs to drive velocity, excellent collaboration with stakeholders, quality and sustainability in all our digital products.
• Stand-up CIBC Mellon’s software development environment: develop the standards, processes, SDLC, QA/QE, CI/CD, monitoring and continuous delivery frameworks to operate with pace, control and transparency. Implement practices and tooling that supports an ownership culture of our platforms from within the Engineering organization, focused on continuous, iterative improvement, stability and collaboration with the business.
• Provide vision for CIBC Mellon’s cloud and data platforms:
  Leveraging our enterprise- and business architects, develop a technical and operational platform model that ensures long-term success through sound technology choices and design, remaining current with emerging technologies while achieving scale, adaptability and control across our solutions. Ensure platform are designed and built with necessary controls, sustainability and growth in mind from day-1.
• Define the strategic technology needs in CIBC Mellon’s roadmap:
  Contribute technical and engineering input to the overall CIBC Mellon Technology strategy and roadmap. Detail the elements in our digital platform architecture and sequencing to achieve their maturity, aligned to business objectives, while interlocking with Business System, Data and AI strategy.
• Provide critical access to key data:
  Alongside the Vice President, Data, work with internal business functions and our clients to understand the data that is key to their operations, how to best serve that to them and how value can be added through responsiveness, automation, analytics and insights. Develop a digital product suite that puts the right data in the hands of the right users through frictionless and compelling experiences.
• Embed AI and Automations as standard:
  In collaboration with the Assistant Vice President, AI, experiment to understand where AI and ML technologies can both expedite the engineering team’s work and add differentiating capabilities to our digital products. Support the Engineering team and colleagues more wide to leverage AI every day, using it to expedite delivery, improve quality and stability of platforms, and create value-add solutions.
• Drive innovation, experimentation and creativity:
  Act as a thought leader for best practices in software development, Dev Sec Ops , and agile methodologies, ensuring their adoption throughout the lifecycle. Remain current with emerging technologies and actively seek new partners who may provide competitive edge in our digital products, while challenging existing vendors to innovate. Build a fail-fast culture, promoting the value of learning through every experiment.
• Create an engineering culture focused on business outcomes:
  Develop an operating model where the benefit to the firm or our clients is understood and held centrally in every technical enhancement. Collaborate with stakeholders to learn our business and act as a critical and collaborative partner in designing, prioritizing and specifying our digital platforms.
• Enable and catalyze citizen development:
  Identify technology initiatives throughout our business, providing active dialogue with leaders to understand where the Technology group can add value to those activities.…