Senior Software Developer (Mainframe)
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
The Branch Technology team is searching for a Senior Software Developer to join our team. As a Software Developer, you will partner with our other agile squads, business partners, and Site Reliability Engineering team in British Columbia/Calgary/Toronto to design, develop, and deploy capabilities for branch applications which all advisors use nationally. This role will help bring to life new capabilities and eliminate technical debt to enable RBC advisors to deliver a seamless client experience. This is a great opportunity for anyone who is looking to advance your agile skills, work cross functionally across organizations to deliver value for client facing employees, and modernize legacy infrastructure.
What will you do?
- Design, develop, test, implement, maintain, and support technical solutions supporting mainframe hosted applications.
- Provide suggestions on areas for improvement within the application suite, with the goal of eliminating technical debt and enhancing automation.
- Document all updates and changes to applications.
- Work cross functionally with business partners, other agile squads, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to prioritize and complete project work.
- In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with RBC partners and/or employees located across Canada and/or worldwide.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have:
- Minimum 5+ years of experience designing, developing, implementing, and maintain mainframe hosted applications, primarily using COBOL 6 in batch/file management, IMS (database/data communication), MQ, and DB2.
- Understanding of job scheduling.
- Change/release management – experience deploying to production environments via Dev Ops pipelines.
- Software change management tools (ideally GitHub, Jenkins, and Urban Code Deploy) to configure/create a build after committing changes to auto-deploy the code and troubleshoot failures.
Nice-to-have:
- Understanding of zOS/Connect environment.
- Agile software development (software development life cycle) – experience working in a cross functional team as a software developer, from project ideation to production deployment.
- DevOps experience with tools such as Dynatrace, Kibana, and Splunk monitor applications.
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.
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
- Opportunities to do challenging work.
- Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.
- Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.
Job Skills
Agile Scrum Development, Mainframe Development, Mainframe DevOps, Mainframe Technologies, Software Development, Technical Design Documentation, Technical Design Reviews, Technical Designs, Technical Solution Design, Technical Solutions
Additional Job Details
Address:
WATERPARK PLACE, 20 BAY ST: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:
2025-08-21
Application Deadline:
2025-09-30
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
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.
Senior Software Developer (Mainframe)
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
The Branch Technology team is searching for a Senior Software Developer to join our team. As a Software Developer, you will partner with our other agile squads, business partners, and Site Reliability Engineering team in British Columbia/Calgary/Toronto to design, develop, and deploy capabilities for branch applications which all advisors use nationally. This role will help bring to life new capabilities and eliminate technical debt to enable RBC advisors to deliver a seamless client experience. This is a great opportunity for anyone who is looking to advance your agile skills, work cross functionally across organizations to deliver value for client facing employees, and modernize legacy infrastructure.
What will you do?
- Design, develop, test, implement, maintain, and support technical solutions supporting mainframe hosted applications.
- Provide suggestions on areas for improvement within the application suite, with the goal of eliminating technical debt and enhancing automation.
- Document all updates and changes to applications.
- Work cross functionally with business partners, other agile squads, and Site Reliability Engineering teams to prioritize and complete project work.
- In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with RBC partners and/or employees located across Canada and/or worldwide.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have:
- Minimum 5+ years of experience designing, developing, implementing, and maintain mainframe hosted applications, primarily using COBOL 6 in batch/file management, IMS (database/data communication), MQ, and DB2.
- Understanding of job scheduling.
- Change/release management – experience deploying to production environments via Dev Ops pipelines.
- Software change management tools (ideally GitHub, Jenkins, and Urban Code Deploy) to configure/create a build after committing changes to auto-deploy the code and troubleshoot failures.
Nice-to-have:
- Understanding of zOS/Connect environment.
- Agile software development (software development life cycle) – experience working in a cross functional team as a software developer, from project ideation to production deployment.
- DevOps experience with tools such as Dynatrace, Kibana, and Splunk monitor applications.
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.
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
- Opportunities to do challenging work.
- Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.
- Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.
Job Skills
Agile Scrum Development, Mainframe Development, Mainframe DevOps, Mainframe Technologies, Software Development, Technical Design Documentation, Technical Design Reviews, Technical Designs, Technical Solution Design, Technical Solutions
Additional Job Details
Address:
WATERPARK PLACE, 20 BAY ST: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:
2025-08-21
Application Deadline:
2025-09-30
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
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.