Senior Manager, Software Development

Role overview

Leadership and delivery

• Manage developers and team leads, set priorities, and allocate resources for quality and efficient delivery.
• Coach and develop the team, provide candid feedback, and foster continuous learning.
• Oversee design, development, and deployment of complex Wealth Management Trading applications.
• Translate business needs into technical plans and explain risks and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Own modernization roadmaps, target architecture, sequencing, coexistence, and safe decommissioning of legacy components.
• Set architecture principles and engineering standards; advance API-first, event-driven, and cloud-native patterns.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend investments.
• Lead enterprise AI Engineering Platform adoption and agentic workflows across the SDLC; create reusable skills, plugins, workflows, and prompts.
• Establish responsible AI controls, including human review and model-risk guardrails.
• Champion code review, secure coding, CI/CD, automated testing, and AI-assisted developer tools.
• Reduce technical debt while delivering business value and maintaining operational stability.
• Own availability, performance, and resilience of real-time trading systems.

Must-have qualifications

• 10+ years in software development and 5+ years leading development teams through people management in an Agile environment.
• Hands-on back-end Java experience, including Java 17+, Spring/Spring Boot, REST APIs, and messaging such as MQ or Kafka.
• Cloud-native and event-driven architecture experience, including microservices, Kafka, containers, and Azure or OpenShift.
• Led a legacy modernization or migration program from target architecture through cut-over.
• Practical experience applying AI tools in software delivery and understanding where guardrails are needed.
• Working knowledge of COBOL and legacy platforms to assess estimates, risk, and migration approaches.
• Owned high-volume, highly available 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, and Canadian regulatory requirements such as CIRO.
• Hands-on HPE NonStop experience, including Guardian/OSS, TACL, Pathway, Enscribe, NonStop SQL/MP or MX, TMF, or GoldenGate.
• Experience building or rolling out enterprise agentic AI workflows, LLM-based code transformation, or AI-generated test suites.
• Experience in a large regulated financial institution and working with audit, risk, and operations partners.

What RBC offers

• Total Rewards Program with bonuses and flexible benefits; compensation may include commissions and stock where applicable.
• Development support through coaching and management opportunities.
• Flexible work/life balance options and a collaborative team environment.

Workplace and schedule

• Full-time role with 37.5 work hours per week.
• Work location listed at RBC Centre, 155 Wellington Street West, Toronto.