Principal Application Architect
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
As a Principal Application Architect at RBC, you will lead the charge in fostering a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and productivity within our software development teams. You will be pivotal in developing patterns and setting both architecture and technology standards to ensure RBC architects robust solutions, improves development processes, streamlines our delivery pipeline, and ultimately drives the creation of high-quality, valuable software for our customers.
What will you do?
- Drive the adoption of best practices in coding, application architecture, and development processes with a focus on developer experience, innovation and productivity
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders and development teams to understand needs, propose solutions, and ensure alignment with strategic goals
- Lead initiatives to evaluate and introduce new tools and technologies that can enhance our development lifecycle and deliver competitive advantages
- Advocate for and contribute to the creation of maintainable, scalable, and future-proof architectures, patterns and standards
- Facilitate face-to-face conversations and workshops to effectively convey information within the enterprise
- Ensure continuous attention to engineering excellence and good design, thereby driving agility and productivity
- Simplify processes and systems, maximizing throughput, and removing bottlenecks to developer productivity, while adhering to governance and standards
- Provide mentorship and guidance to developers and architects, fostering a culture of learning and growth
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, assessing their applicability to our goals and objectives
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Extensive experience in application architecture with a proven track record of innovation and productivity improvements
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and principles, particularly those emphasizing collaboration, responsiveness to change, and customer focus
- Proficiency in a variety of programming languages and technologies, with an openness to embracing new tools and methods
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to lead cross-department initiatives and interact effectively with stakeholders at all levels. - Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach teams towards achieving their highest potential
- Experience with DevOps practices, continuous integration, and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
Nice-to-have
- Understanding of application security principles and practices, including experience with secure coding, threat modeling, and security assessments
- Experience with performance testing, profiling, and optimization of applications and systems
- Having good understanding of Generative AI Large Language Models, their strengths, weaknesses and how they can be applied to drive developer productivity and innovation
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
About RBC
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.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.
Principal Application Architect
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
As a Principal Application Architect at RBC, you will lead the charge in fostering a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and productivity within our software development teams. You will be pivotal in developing patterns and setting both architecture and technology standards to ensure RBC architects robust solutions, improves development processes, streamlines our delivery pipeline, and ultimately drives the creation of high-quality, valuable software for our customers.
What will you do?
- Drive the adoption of best practices in coding, application architecture, and development processes with a focus on developer experience, innovation and productivity
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders and development teams to understand needs, propose solutions, and ensure alignment with strategic goals
- Lead initiatives to evaluate and introduce new tools and technologies that can enhance our development lifecycle and deliver competitive advantages
- Advocate for and contribute to the creation of maintainable, scalable, and future-proof architectures, patterns and standards
- Facilitate face-to-face conversations and workshops to effectively convey information within the enterprise
- Ensure continuous attention to engineering excellence and good design, thereby driving agility and productivity
- Simplify processes and systems, maximizing throughput, and removing bottlenecks to developer productivity, while adhering to governance and standards
- Provide mentorship and guidance to developers and architects, fostering a culture of learning and growth
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, assessing their applicability to our goals and objectives
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Extensive experience in application architecture with a proven track record of innovation and productivity improvements
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and principles, particularly those emphasizing collaboration, responsiveness to change, and customer focus
- Proficiency in a variety of programming languages and technologies, with an openness to embracing new tools and methods
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to lead cross-department initiatives and interact effectively with stakeholders at all levels. - Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach teams towards achieving their highest potential
- Experience with DevOps practices, continuous integration, and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
Nice-to-have
- Understanding of application security principles and practices, including experience with secure coding, threat modeling, and security assessments
- Experience with performance testing, profiling, and optimization of applications and systems
- Having good understanding of Generative AI Large Language Models, their strengths, weaknesses and how they can be applied to drive developer productivity and innovation
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
About RBC
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.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.