Senior Business Architect

We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients.

At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

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What You’ll Be Doing

Senior Business Architect is a critical bridge between business leaders, technology leaders, and Technology Architects to ensure that strategy, capabilities and execution are in alignment. CIBC is developing a Business Architecture practice as part of the US Technology team.

Reporting to the US Head of Business Architecture, the Senior Business Architect has direct responsibility for working closely with business leaders to identify strategic business capabilities needed to enable their business goals and leverage business architecture artifacts to create future state business architecture and roadmaps while partnering with technology architects and leaders to align technical solutions to business imperatives. You identify and lead efforts to advance and maintain vision and direction for the business architecture practice and defines, designs, and matures business capability architecture for the enterprise, inclusive of artifacts such as a capability maps, value streams, process architecture and roadmaps. In this role you also oversee the creation and governance of business architecture artifacts, as well as common standards and methods for developing and incorporating business architecture in the enterprise. You demonstrate impacts and opportunities for business leaders to facilitate critical business decisions, while capturing key views of the business unit in the context of the overall enterprise and provide direct input into the planning, execution, and achievement of enterprise and business unit strategic goals.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 2 days per week on-site, while other days may be remote.

How You’ll Succeed

• Strategic Thinking Approach: Take a holistic view to all tasks! You drive, manage and execute the Risk Management strategy initiatives and sustain Risk Management Strategy for CIBC through all lines of businesses while supporting the business goals, objectives and KPIs. You have a keen ability to provide insights, recommendations and risk management strategic direction based on CIBC’s vision, business needs and objectives (KPIs), industry trends, competitive landscape and metrics insights.
• Team Player and Leadership: Act both Collaboratively and Autonomously. You will contribute to creating risk management roadmaps, initiative engagements and solutioning for assigned portfolios.
• Business Acumen and Relationship Building: Forge strong relationships with CIBC’s various teams, by working with the business and internal partners, owning the end to end engagements to deliver Risk Management capabilities, with a strong understanding of the client needs and experiences across all Lines of Businesses. You are a great communicator, with the ability to synthesize complex analysis, findings and recommendations, then package key messages for senior executives. You have a proven ability to partner, build confidence and influence multiple stakeholders at all levels across the organization and you’re a self-starter, with the ability to deal with ambiguity and develop processes and governance from the ground up.
• Strategy and Execution:  Help translate strategy into actionable initiatives. Support business unit’s planning process and facilitate the sequencing and prioritizing of initiatives.
• Governance: Ensure the Business Architecture practice defines and maintains pragmatic, yet effective levels of governance activities at the enterprise level.

Who You Are

• You are a seasoned professional with 6+ years of Business Architecture experience, ideally within Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, or Corporate Employee Technology. You bring strong, practical knowledge across multiple lines of business, developed through business architecture, product management, or both. You are passionate about business architecture and the value it brings to organizations, through the pursuit of additional training, certifications or the development of your practice.
• You bring Data and AI Fluency. Applied AI fluency to evaluate and prioritize business use cases that align with strategic objectives and enterprise capability gaps.
• You have a degree in business, information technology (IT), computer science, engineering or finance, or an equal combination of education in a related field and industry experience.
• You are a critical thinker and have the ability to synthesize a variety of information into cohesive business modeling.
• You have extensive experience leading and influencing teams and stakeholders to deliver effective change.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 to succeed. You possess mature business judgement and are proactive, well-organized and results oriented. You are self-starter with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities and to work independently and are highly motivated, perseverant, and resilient in pursuing objectives despite challenges.
• You have strong communication skills. You have presentation skills sufficient to clearly articulate complex conceptual information and ideas. You have strong interpersonal and team skills and are comfortable working in flexible and collaborative environment.
• You embrace and champion change. You’ll continuously evolve your thinking and the way you work in order to deliver your best.
• You're passionate about people. You find meaning in relationships, and surround yourself with a diverse network of partners. You build trust through respect and authenticity.  You have passion for client service and you want  the work you do each day to result in a positive client experience.

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At CIBC, we offer a competitive total rewards package. This role has an expected salary range of $160,000 - $175,000 for the market based on experience, qualifications, and location of the position. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which may also include a discretionary bonus component. CIBC offers a full range of benefits and programs to meet our employee’s needs; including Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability, and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave, Parental Leave and Vacation), Holidays and 401(k), in addition to other special perks reserved for our team members.

This position does not offer visa sponsorship.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

• We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.

• Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.

• We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

*Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

What you need to know

• CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact [email protected]
• 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 tests (such as simulation, coding, MS Office). Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.

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Job Location

IL-Chicago, 70 W Madison St Fl 10

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

40

Skills

Business Intelligence Architecture, Business Strategies, Product Management Strategy, Wealth Management Strategies