• Job Description

  Req#: R-0000132867

  Job Summary

  Job Description

  What is The Opportunity?

  As a Squad Technical Lead, you will work on exciting projects transforming RBC’s core banking capabilities and have opportunities to work on several projects as you, and our fast-paced business, grow and evolve with our customer’s needs. We need our Technical Lead to exhibit an engineering mindset, be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full technology stack.

  We’re a team of resilient, collaborative people with a passion for learning and delivering top-notch client experiences. We are keenly motivated to step up to the plate and take ownership of our work: we do it with pride. We care deeply about the outcomes, but how we get there matters too. That’s why we’re looking for talented individuals to join us on our journey as we modernize core banking.

  What Will You Do?

  As the Squad Technical Lead for Vantage Technology, you will play a key role in immediate and long-term strategic technical delivery direction for a multi-disciplined team of technical resources. Nurturing culture and facilitating learning and knowledge sharing will be second nature as well as applying your technical know-how to ensure that our platform is on the leading edge of technical delivery practices. Backed by the might of our teams, you’ll have the tools and resources needed to achieve extraordinary results that render a significant impact extending beyond the boundaries of traditional technology roles. If you’re a strong leader with proven experience building strong teams, collaboration and managing technical delivery in large organizations—we have a spot for you on our team.

  • Provide thought leadership and act as platform expert while partnering with our vendor

  • co-lead a cross-functional squad composed of technical, business systems analyst, quality engineers to deliver functionality following Agile practices and RBC Ways of Working.

  • Be a trusted technical partner to the agile team, helping to solution, size, prioritize, and guide development activities, product maintenance and evolution of the platform.

  • Be responsible for translating business into technical requirements and a well-defined story backlog.

  • Lead technical work for your squad. Assess technical complexity and decide on best technical approach. Collaborate with architecture to ensure technical solution alignment.

  • Lead technical work with external partners. Build relationships with other technology groups and manage technical dependencies. Ensure a clear working "contract" is established between your team and partner teams in terms of technical dependencies, timelines, responsibilities, and deliverables.

  • Be responsible for delivering and deploying features to production, ensuring quality controls are in place. Work with your team to harden, monitor, troubleshoot and resolve issues in production.

  • Automate processes within the development pipeline; identify opportunities for efficiency gains and reducing time-to-market, and enabling continuous delivery

  • Provide hands-on development support to your squad in the form of code reviews or code contributions when needed

  • Champion a diverse and inclusive team culture

  What Do You Need to Succeed?

  Must-have

  • 5+ years of development experience with any type of Java applications

  • 5+ years of development experience with applications on a full-stack basis. Must be knowledgeable of back-end systems, front-end systems, and modern front-end technologies, with experience on Unix administration

  • Experience working with bash shell scripts, able to write scripts to perform routine tasks, create reports, and manage batch jobs

  • Experience with Oracle (19), able to analyze schemas and queries for tuning

  • Experience working with JBoss EAP application server

  • Experience working with large data sets of 1MM to 100MM records. Able to build scalable solutions with high transaction processing times

  • Knowledge of security standards and able to implement security protocols. Should be able to identify vulnerabilities with libraries and identify impacts to the application

  • Experience with automated testing (unit, functional, performance)

  • Experience working within coding standards, code reviews, source code management, build processes and testing

  • Experience using IT Operation tools

  • Excellent communication, including the ability to simplify technical details into human terms, and interact with non-technical parties such as product owners and business analysts

  Nice-to-have

  • Experience working with vendor applications

  • Experience with IMS, Cobol and JCL

  • Knowledge of SQL and DB2 on zOS

  • Experience working with RESTful APIs and interface specifications (Swagger/OpenAPI).

  • DevOps tools such as: Jenkins, UrbanCode Deploy, Ansible

  • Experience developing with message queues such as Apache Kafka

  • Experience working with ETL orchestration tools

  • Experience deploying applications to cloud systems an asset

  • Working knowledge of distributed cloud applications (Openshift, Docker, Azure)

  • Experience with Generative AI, Machine Learning and Large Language Models

  What's in it for you?

  We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

  • Opportunities to do challenging work

  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

  • Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

  #LI-POST

  Job Skills

  Agile Methodology, Business Data Analysis, Business Process Modeling, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Requirements Analysis

  Additional Job Details

  Address:

  RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

  City:

  TORONTO

  Country:

  Canada

  Work hours/week:

  37.5

  Employment Type:

  Full time

  Platform:

  TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

  Job Type:

  Regular

  Pay Type:

  Salaried

  Posted Date:

  2025-07-09

  Application Deadline:

  2025-08-02

  Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

  Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

  At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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• About the company

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