Senior Director - Chief Developer and AI Adoption

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards program

Bonuses and stock where applicable

Leadership development

Job summary

RBC is seeking a Senior Director, Software Development to lead a Technology & Operations AI Development team in Toronto. The role focuses on building a modern, secure, scalable, AI-enabled organization and delivering measurable productivity gains across the portfolio.

The executive will partner with risk, compliance, data, and HR to embed AI into the operating model, champion developer productivity, and drive cloud-based solutions while aligning with regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in software development and leadership roles.
• Experience with distributed cloud platforms and security requirements in financial services.
• Proven ability to design and deliver AI-enabled development platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define AI-assisted software development strategy and engineering productivity.
• Lead high-performing teams and ensure high standards of software quality.
• Ensure compliance with banking regulations, risk, and data protection.

Skills

Java

-.NET

Angular

REST API

Microservices

Spring Framework

SQL

Cloud platforms

Security protocols

Gen-AI / AI governance

Leadership

Education

Engineering or Computer Science degree

Tools

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

OpenShift

Docker

Job description

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Are you a Senior Developer turned Technical Manager? Do you have strong understanding of banking products?

You will lead a team of Technology & Operations AI Developers who build the next-generation technology that changes how millions of people interact with financial information and one another. Our products need to handle information on a massive scale and extend well beyond traditional banking.

The RBC Business Financial Service Technology team offers the opportunity to work within the transformation program to develop innovative ideas and solutions in support of our clients and organization. We hire people with a broad range of technical skills and leadership experience. Our teams are diverse, creative and fun. As a Sr. Director, Software Development, you will work within and across teams focusing on how we can empower our clients on their digital journey. Working with amazing colleagues and a variety of technological options you will be contributing to new innovative possibilities, solving interesting and challenging business problems and helping to deliver solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and great client experience.

This executive will establish a modern, secure, scalable, and AI-enabled development organization. The role combines hands-on technology leadership with enterprise-wide transformation, ensuring that AI and automation deliver measurable improvements while meeting the bank’s standards for security, resilience, regulatory compliance, data protection, and responsible innovation.

The successful candidate will champion developer productivity, modern engineering practices, cloud and platform capabilities, reusable technology services, and the adoption of AI-assisted development tools. They will partner closely with business leaders, risk, compliance, information security, data, operations, and human resources to embed AI into the bank’s operating model

What will you do?

• Maintaining relationships with clients; communicating with IT and business management. Monitoring prompt response and support for technical issues.
• Lead high performing teams, and ensure high standards and quality of technical work. Directing reviews of tools and technologies for improving performance, reducing costs and time to market.
• Define the bank’s strategy for AI-assisted software development and engineering productivity. Partner with business and functional leaders to identify high-value, practical AI use cases. Build communities of practice, internal learning programs, and technical enablement initiatives for developers and business users.
• Lead the adoption of approved AI coding assistants, code-generation tools, testing tools, documentation solutions, developer copilots, and software delivery automation.
• Ensure AI and software development practices comply with applicable banking regulations, supervisory expectations, internal policies, and contractual obligations.
• Establish appropriate controls for the use of generative AI in development, including secure handling of source code, customer data, confidential information, and intellectual property.
• Develop standards for human review, model evaluation, testing, explainability, auditability, and accountability when AI is used in software development.
• Measure and communicate the impact of AI adoption on productivity, quality, delivery speed, risk, and employee experience.
• Own or contribute to technology investment planning, prioritization, and budget management.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• 5- 10 years’ experience with Java, .NET, Angular (or relevant frameworks), REST API/Micro services, Spring Framework (MVC, Security, JPA, Boot), Ansi SQL (MySQL or equivalent)
• Experience with distributed cloud (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Openshift, Docker)
• Experience in designing, developing, testing and troubleshooting code. Experience with security gateways and protocols (JWT, Oauth2.0, SSL Certificates, Azure AD)
• Experience with event driven capabilities like Kafka. Microservices architecture design, development and implementation.
• Experience with secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience leveraging Gen-AI capabilities including Claude, CoPilot or others to generate code, data & deliver applications. Experience with responsible AI, model risk management, AI governance, or technology-control frameworks.
• Experience scaling AI coding assistants or AI-enabled developer platforms across a large organization.
• Knowledge of modern AI and machine learning techniques, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, model evaluation, and agentic workflows.
• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Equivalent.

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.

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• #TECH PJ

Job Skills

Application Development, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Commercial Acumen, Enterprise Application Delivery, Information Technology Management, Information Technology Trends, Programming Languages, System Applications

Additional Job Details

Address:

180 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:

2026-09-22

Application Deadline:

2026-10-30

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

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One 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.