Senior Application Specialist

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join RBC's cutting-edge Digital Platforms team, driving digital capabilities across the organization. This role demands expertise in project management, technical analysis, and stakeholder engagement to deliver impactful digital solutions. Ideal for a results-driven professional passionate about technology and innovation.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Flexible work/life balance options

World-class training program in financial services

Development support from leaders

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in financial institutions or management consulting.
• Hands-on integration development experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple end-to-end projects and engage with stakeholders.
• Assess and analyze current environments and propose integration solutions.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Adaptability

Critical Thinking

Communication

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Job description

Job Summary

Are you a talented, creative and results-driven professional who thrives on delivering innovative solutions? Come join us as we embark on the next generation of our Digital Platforms strategy!

As a part of RBC's Digital Technology team, we collaborate with partners from across the enterprise to deliver robust and transformative technology solutions. This role executes on the consultation, technical, and product management expertise required for successful development and adoption of our Digital Platforms.

Job Description

What is the opportunity?
The Digital Platforms team is driving an enterprise-wide strategic initiative focused on driving Digital capability reuse across lines of businesses. Our mission is to empower development teams to focus on creating best in class digital experiences with speed and safety enabled by reuse and intelligence.

We're looking for a driver to take on systems analysis, design, implementation and support of applications. The specialist will be responsible for managing multiple E2E projects and engagements simultaneously, while ensuring alignment to the wider platform strategy. A successful candidate will be able to apply core consulting skills to bridge business and technical partners, create innovative solutions, and become a trusted advisor for our stakeholders.

What will you do?

• Strategic & Project Management: Coordinate with development teams, senior leadership, business management, QA, developers, and other stakeholders regularly in alignment with Digital Platforms strategic deliverables.
• Technical Analysis and Consulting: Assesses and analyze current state environments and technical platforms, define integration requirements, and propose solutions that meet functional integration needs across the digital ecosystem, including a future digital solution and multiple 3rd party internal/external systems.
• Solution Presentation: Prepare senior management materials focusing on key messaging through rigorous synthesis and logic; adapt written and verbal communication to different types of audiences.
• Planning, Implementation & Support: Focus on building integration solutions ensuring successful deployment using various integration product technologies/tools and services. Participate in detailed design sessions for identifying, tracking, and resolving issues related to integration design/build.
• Stakeholder & Business Management: Build strong, sustainable relationships with the business and functional teams by joining them in workshops to elicit their needs and understand their wants to meet the business requirements.
• Technical Product Management: Take lead on identifying product success requirements and ensuring the successful development and adoption of the Digital Platforms. Stay up to date with emerging trends and new functionalities in areas related to security integration and other business capability domains. Proactively identify new target user groups, facilitate effective demonstrations that clearly articulate the business value and technical functionality of the product.
• Team Facilitation & Communication: Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders using a variety of techniques and collaboration from initiation to close. Facilitates small to large group meetings for technical design/architecture, decision making, problem-solving and task implementation.

What would you need?

Must have:

• 5+ years of experience in a financial institution or management consulting firm, with proven experience working in complex strategic projects.
• Hands-on integration development experience and proven thought-leadership in the Digital technology space
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills and ability to analyze situations and translate into insights to make informed decisions. Excellent problem-solving skills in ambiguous situations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (i.e. ability to articulate complex messages in a concise and clear way).
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop strong relationships at every level of the organization.

Nice-to-have:

• Proven ability to facilitate between stakeholders at varying levels of leadership and influence key decision makers.
• Demonstrated experience in a product management, technical product management, or similar role capacity.
• Demonstrated experience in marketing or product communications roles.

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 includes 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
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options

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Job Skills

Adaptability, Adaptability, Building Architecture, Business, Business Management, Collaborating, Collaboration, Communication, Consulting, Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Design, Detailed Design, Digital Platforms, Digital Solutions, Digital Technology, Facilitation, Innovative Solutions, Integration Development, Management Consulting, Oral Communications, Problem Solving, Product Management, Storytelling {+ 5 more}

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY 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:

2025-06-26

Application Deadline:

2025-07-25

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

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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