Global Markets Data & AI Engineering Lead

CIBC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CIBC is seeking a Senior Director of Global Markets Data & AI Engineering to lead strategic data, analytics, and AI capabilities across trading, sales, risk, and client analytics. The role emphasizes platform modernization, scalable governance, and high-impact production delivery in a regulated financial environment.

The successful candidate will guide engineering teams, set standards, and partner with front office and risk stakeholders to deliver business-aligned AI-enabled solutions while

Qualifications

• Extensive technology leadership experience within Global Markets.
• Proven track record delivering data & AI engineering in Global Markets.
• Strong eTrading and derivatives risk management domain knowledge.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders across business & tech functions.
• Experience delivering AI platforms, workflow automation, or intelligent analytics solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Global Markets Data & AI engineering strategy and roadmap.
• Modernize legacy solutions into cloud-native, reusable, and supportable services.
• Establish engineering patterns for data products, ingestion, transformation, feature engineering, model deployment, monitoring, and observability.
• Partner with front office, risk, compliance, operations, and technology stakeholders to deliver business-aligned solutions.
• Drive adoption of automation, AI augmented development and agentic workflows where appropriate.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for security, governance, records management, auditability, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams across data, AI, and platform disciplines.
• Set engineering standards, delivery practices, and operational controls.

Skills

Strategic leadership

AI strategy

Cloud-native engineering

Data engineering

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Team development

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Spark

Kafka

dbt

Airflow

MLOps tooling

Job description

CIBC is seeking a Senior Director of Global Markets Data & AI Engineering to lead strategic data, analytics, and AI capabilities across trading, sales, risk, and client analytics. The role emphasizes platform modernization, scalable governance, and high-impact production delivery in a regulated financial environment.

The successful candidate will guide engineering teams, set standards, and partner with front office and risk stakeholders to deliver business-aligned AI-enabled solutions while