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Development Lead, GFT

RBCabout 22 hours ago
Toronto, ON
Senior Level
full_time

Top Benefits

Total Rewards Program: bonuses, flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, stock

About the role

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Global Functions Technology (GFT) helps RBC functions & businesses achieve business objectives through app development & technology support. We’re also the center of excellence for employee social collaboration & mobile apps, and also build apps that support managing the risk of the bank. We’re building a team that embraces innovation and enthusiasm to bring a fresh perspective. We’ve been on journeys to build out high performing, highly resilient technology platforms that can grow with the continuous demands from Group Risk, Human Resources, Chief Administrative Office & Audit, Capital Markets, P&CB and Wealth.

We’re looking for talented and passionate technologists to join our team. With a developer mind-set you will work as part of an agile team to deliver high performing applications built on cloud platforms with streaming technologies. We believe in continuous growth and expanding your capabilities. Join our team today and have a big impact influencing the strength of our advanced insight and analytics. This team is involved in several project scopes, so there are a variety of projects to get involved in!

What will you do?

  • Lead, Develop and support highly scalable, high performance components within an Agile development team
  • Ensure high code quality through automated unit and functional testing
  • Automate processes within the development pipeline; identify opportunities for efficiency gains and reducing time-to-market, and enabling continuous delivery
  • Contribute in application design and develop code structures to promote reusability across many applications
  • Be open-minded and look beyond your stack to solve complex problems
  • Proactively seek out knowledge about new technologies and how they can be used to solve current and foreseeable challenges
  • Communicate effectively with peers and distil technical details into human terms

What do you need to succeed? Must Have:

  • 7+ years of professional software development experience delivering highly scalable, high performance applications
  • Experience developing secure server side services leveraging the following APIs: Spring, Spring Batch/Boot/Integration, RESTful Webservices and Apache Data Utilities (JSON, Avro, CSV/PSV, Parquet).
  • Experience in designing and building scalable, cloud-ready services following microservice architecture principles, lead and contribute during technical design discussions and requirement clarifications.
  • Experience working with various caching technologies (Ignite/Redis etc.) and NoSQL/SQL databases
  • Good knowledge on messaging/streaming technologies like MQ, Kafka etc.
  • Hands-on experience in writing clean, readable/reusable java code with unit tests.
  • Ability to closely work with business users to understand requirements and translate them into technical design ideas.
  • Ability to independently handle module deliveries, multi-task effectively and provide timely updates

Nice To Have:

  • Experience with banking
  • Experience with DevOps , CD/CI tools- Jenkins, GitHub, Automated Testing tools, or similar tools

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
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • A world-class training program in financial services
  • Opportunities to do challenging work
  • Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

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Job Skills

Active Learning, Agile Methodology, Application Integrations, Detail-Oriented, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Microsoft .NET Development, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Sybase Database

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST 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:

2025-08-27

Application Deadline:

2025-08-29

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

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Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.

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