Executive Director, Prime Brokerage Tech

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What you'll be doing

As Executive Director, Prime Services, you will drive the strategy, delivery, and support of technology solutions across Prime Brokerage, Risk, Margin, Synthetic Prime Brokerage, and related business functions. You’ll lead multidisciplinary teams—including development, architecture, and business analyst leadership—to ensure business needs are translated into scalable, compliant, and high-performing solutions. Your role bridges front-to-back business functions, partnering closely with operations, risk, finance, product, and technology stakeholders. You’ll build a strong business function support model led by high-performing Business Analysts, ensuring that business functions are effectively supported across the full operating model. Your leadership will focus on aligning technology initiatives with business priorities, modernizing platforms, and promoting operational excellence and continuous improvement throughout Prime Services.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You will have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement. Details on your work arrangement will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How you'll succeed

• Strategic Leadership - Lead the Prime Services technology function with accountability for delivery, platform stability, modernization, and business alignment. Define and execute the technology roadmap supporting Prime Brokerage, Synthetic PB, Stock Loan, Margin Financing, Risk, and client reporting capabilities. Partner with business heads and senior stakeholders to align technology initiatives with growth, regulatory, control, and client service priorities. Oversee budgeting, resource planning, vendor strategy, and execution governance for major initiatives.

• Business Analyst Leadership and Business Function Support - Lead and develop a team of Business Analysts responsible for supporting core Prime Services business functions across trading, operations, margin, risk, finance, settlement, and client servicing. Establish the BA organization as the key interface between business users and technology teams, ensuring clear translation of business requirements into functional specifications, delivery plans, and operational outcomes. Ensure the BA team documents business workflows, operating models, controls, dependencies, and target-state process improvements across Prime Services. Promote a service-oriented BA model where analysts act as trusted advisors to business stakeholders rather than only requirements gatherers. Lead BA participation in governance forums, prioritization discussions, change control, and stakeholder communications. Mentor and coach BA leads to strengthen domain expertise in Prime Brokerage, margin, synthetic products, risk, and operational support.

• Technology Delivery and Platform Management - Oversee the design, implementation, and enhancement of Prime Services applications, including risk and margin platforms, synthetic PB solutions, reporting frameworks, and integrations with internal and external systems. Provide project oversight, architectural review, and quality assurance across blueprint, design, development, testing, and deployment phases. Lead automation initiatives for trade capture, client allocations, affirmations, reporting delivery, reconciliations, and settlements. Ensure effective integration of platforms with trade booking, regulatory, market data, and downstream operational systems. Support scalable data flows and analytics capabilities across data management, data governance, ETL, reporting, and business intelligence.

• Risk, Margin, and Regulatory Oversight - Provide leadership in solutions supporting house margin methodologies, stress-based margi