Senior Manager, Software Development

Role overview

Leadership and delivery

• Manage and allocate work across Java and HPE NonStop/COBOL teams, including vendor and contract resources.
• Coach team members and build a high-performing, continuous-learning culture.
• Oversee design, development, and deployment of complex trading applications.
• Translate business needs into technical plans and explain technical risks and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Own platform modernization, including target architecture, sequencing, coexistence, and safe decommissioning of legacy components.
• Set architecture principles and engineering standards; promote API-first, event-driven, and cloud-native patterns.
• Lead enterprise AI Engineering Platform adoption and agentic workflows across the SDLC; create reusable skills, plugins, workflows, and prompts.
• Set responsible AI guardrails, including human review and model-risk controls.
• Champion code review, secure coding, CI/CD, automated testing, and AI-assisted tools.
• Maintain availability, performance, and resilience of real-time trading systems while reducing technical debt.

Must-have qualifications

• 10+ years in software development, including 5+ years leading development teams through people management in an Agile environment.
• Back-end Java experience with Java 17+, Spring/Spring Boot, REST APIs, and messaging such as MQ or Kafka.
• Experience with microservices, cloud-native and event-driven architecture, Kafka, containers, and Azure or OpenShift.
• Led a legacy modernization or migration program from target architecture through cut-over.
• Applied AI tools in software delivery and can assess their value and guardrails.
• Working knowledge of COBOL and legacy platforms.
• Owned high-volume, high-availability production systems, including incident and problem management, SLAs, and change control.
• Strong written and verbal communication and ability to influence business and technology leaders.

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Retail brokerage or trading knowledge, including equities, options, fixed-income order flow, trade posting, settlement, or CIRO requirements.
• Hands-on HPE NonStop experience, including Guardian/OSS, TACL, Pathway, Enscribe, NonStop SQL/MP or MX, TMF, or GoldenGate.
• Experience delivering enterprise agentic AI workflows, LLM-based code transformation, or AI-generated test suites.
• Experience in a large regulated financial institution with audit, risk, and operations partners.

Benefits

• Total rewards program with bonuses and flexible benefits; compensation, commissions, and stock may apply.
• Leaders support development through coaching and management opportunities.
• Flexible work/life balance options and a collaborative team environment.

Work details

• The posting lists an RBC Centre address in Toronto; it does not specify a remote, hybrid, or required on-site work policy.
• Full-time, regular position with 37.5 work hours per week.