Director, Product u2013 Workflow Orchestration & Platform Engineering - Simplii Financial (Toronto)

What you'll be doing

As Director, Product – Workflow Orchestration & Platform Engineering, you will be a key leader within the Personal and Business Banking team, reporting to the Vice President, Strategy, Modernization and Optimization.

• Own the vision, roadmap, and delivery for Simplii’s workflow orchestration platform, enabling both internal operational workflows and external client‑facing journeys to be composed, integrated, and delivered quickly, safely, and consistently.
• Translate consumer needs, architecture standards, security/IAM requirements, and business priorities into a clear product roadmap and prioritized backlog for a cross‑functional squad.
• Build and evolve reusable workflow and orchestration building blocks, ensuring cross‑cutting platform controls, and drive architectural evolution, including AI agent workflow enablement.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement, partnering closely with stakeholders across architecture, security, infrastructure, and enterprise governance.

How you’ll succeed

• Own and refine the product vision for Simplii’s workflow orchestration platform, developing reusable journey components and building blocks that accelerate squad delivery and support end‑to‑end process orchestration.
• Manage the shared platform product roadmap, intake, prioritization, and transparency for shared capabilities, establishing consumer feedback loops and governance processes.
• Define and enforce identity/IAM patterns, data access standards, audit logging, performance testing standards, and platform compliance readiness, partnering with security, privacy, risk, and compliance teams.
• Own and manage the product backlog, making transparent trade‑off decisions, leading agile ceremonies, and proactively managing dependencies, risks, and sequencing across initiatives.
• Act as the product decision‑maker, gathering input from consuming squads and subject‑matter experts, and communicating platform direction, progress, and outcomes to senior leaders and delivery teams.
• Define and track platform performance metrics, inspect outcomes, incorporate learnings, and adjust priorities to continuously increase platform value and champion a culture of experimentation and improvement.

Who you are

• Decisive platform product leader with solid technical judgment, comfortable making trade‑offs in complex, multi‑consumer environments spanning internal operations and external client journeys.
• Deeply platform‑minded with a track record of building shared workflow orchestration capabilities that accelerate delivery across multiple teams and use cases.
• Highly collaborative, effective across architecture, security, infrastructure, consumer squads, and enterprise governance in a matrixed organization.
• Thrives in ambiguity, turning strategy into executable priorities at the platform layer while balancing short‑term needs with long‑term integrity and scalability.
• Outcomes‑oriented, focusing on enablement, developer experience, and measurable platform impact, consistently delivering results.
• Values matter to you: bring your real self to work, and live CIBC’s values—trust, teamwork, and accountability.

What CIBC Offers

• Competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program, a defined benefit pension plan, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and Moment Makers.
• Spaces and technology toolkit to facilitate collaboration and innovative solutions.
• Purpose Day: a paid day off dedicated for growth and development.

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 provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact View email address on ca.talent.com .

All roles posted are opportunities we’re actively recruiting for, unless stated otherwise. 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.

Job Location

Toronto – 161 Bay St., 4th

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Backlog Management
• Communication
• Data‑Driven Decision Making
• Domain Knowledge
• Influencing Without Authority
• Mentorship
• Negotiation
• Problem Solving
• Product Portfolio Strategy
• Product Roadmap Development
• Risk Management
• Sprint Planning
• Stakeholder Management
• User Story Mapping