Position Description

This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our downtown Toronto (250 Yonge St, Toronto) and/or Client office at a minimum 2 days per week - subject to change at any time.

The RTR Delivery Lead will oversee the technical delivery of Real-Time Rail components, ensuring alignment between architecture, development, and testing teams. This role focuses on execution excellence — driving the delivery of APIs, integration services, and RTR platform capabilities that meet stringent performance, security, and compliance standards.

Your future duties and responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end RTR technical delivery, from design through deployment and stabilization.
• Lead daily standups, sprint planning, and delivery tracking for all RTR-related technical workstreams.
• Work closely with solution architects to define RTR integration patterns and ensure compliance with Payments Canada guidelines.
• Partner with QA and DevOps teams to enforce CI/CD best practices, code quality, and release readiness.
• Support and guide teams on cloud-native deployment models (AWS preferred).
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and integration challenges early and drive resolution.
• Maintain traceability between business requirements and delivered functionality.
• Provide delivery health reporting and technical insights to program management and client stakeholders.

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role Must Have:

8–12 years of experience in technology delivery or engineering leadership roles within financial services.

• Strong technical understanding of Real-Time Payments, ISO 20022 messaging, and high-availability payment processing.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based architecture (AWS preferred) and API management platforms.
• Proven ability to manage and coordinate distributed development and QA teams (onshore/offshore model).
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automated testing in financial environments.
• Solid background in microservices architecture, event-driven systems (Kafka/SQS), and observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with business, operations, and architecture teams.
• Ability to manage dependencies across multiple systems and ensure smooth integration between RTR and legacy platforms.
• Experience working in a banking modernization or payments transformation program preferred.
• Certifications in AWS, Scrum Master, or SAFe are considered an asset.

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

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