Senior Solution Designer, Information Technology

Company Information:

CIBC Mellon is a leading provider of asset servicing solutions to institutional investors in Canada, including multi-currency accounting, fund valuation, and investment information reporting. We are passionate about providing exceptional client service backed by our culture of innovation and success. Our outstanding employee experience will provide you with opportunities to learn and grow professionally while supporting the communities in which you live and work.

We are a diverse and dynamic workplace where employees take an active role in delivering on strategic objectives while advancing their individual career goals. We encourage innovative thinking and give our employees the support and resources they need to turn great ideas into actions.

We're always looking for talented people who can make a meaningful difference for our clients, our company and our communities. To learn more about why our employees love coming to work each day, visit

Position Overview:

Reporting to the Director, Solution Design the Senior Solution Designer, will be play a key role in shaping CIBC Mellon's technology and digital landscape. They will be responsible for designing complex, enterprise-wide initiatives that involve multiple back-end systems. As a member of our technology team, the senior solutions designer will lead the functional design of solutions across a variety of technical platforms. This role will drive the planning, strategy, and integration of technical design and development efforts. Through their contributions, they will help build the future of CIBC Mellon.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design of innovative, robust, and scalable technical solutions across enterprise applications and platforms.

• Translate business requirements into high-level architecture and detailed technical designs.

• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, architects and stakeholders to ensure alignment between technical and business goals

• Document the designs and patterns, and maintain the application's technical functionality, infrastructure, database, interfaces and integrations artefacts.

• Lead the design of cost-effective and innovative solutions to meet business objectives, and also maintain and enhance existing applications.

• Develop 1-3 year technology roadmaps to align with the corporation's overall vision and strategy.

• Spearhead multiple complex projects involving strategic solutions, new technologies and innovations.

• Act as the lead designer, and interface with the project teams by arranging and moderating design review sessions to walk stakeholders through, and ensure that the overall design aligns with business and project requirements as well as architectural directions.

• Support and mentor other designers, and developers through knowledge sharing, collaboration and effective problem solving.

Qualifications:

Education/Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Solution Designer, or in a similar role.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or related field

Specific Knowledge & Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Required to effectively interact with a variety of stakeholders, end-users, business and technology teams to gather requirements, create design specifications, discuss the pros & cons of different solutions, and present designs to upper management and architects.

• Good understanding of security concepts (like SAML, JWT, Single-Sign-On) as well as infrastructure (like VM and Cloud), capacity, continuity and high availability and other Non-Functional capabilities.

• Highly motivated and resourceful individual who can manage multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment. Experience working with internal and external partners to integrate and utilize or provide services.

• Experience with: Data Governance, SQL service, SQL, .Net or Java programming, Business Intelligent tools such as Tableau, Salesforce, Alteryx, MS Power Platform, and Cloud services.

• Experience with: Agile methodology, SOA Design Patterns, REST API and Web Services Data services, and a good understanding of End User Computing and productivity applications.

CIBC Mellon's Values:

Get it Right Every Day: Deliver service excellence while always acting with the highest ethical standards

Put Clients at the Centre: Advocate for clients by listening, sharing knowledge, and bringing the right solutions forward

Be One Family: Challenge, empower and recognize your colleagues

Take Ownership: Speak up, speak out, and make things better