Senior Product Manager, Hybrid Cloud, Smart Infrastructure

RBC; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Toronto is seeking a Senior Product Manager for its Hybrid Cloud team. This role involves defining and executing product strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver cloud solutions, and driving the adoption of hybrid cloud technologies. The ideal candidate will have strong product management experience in cloud infrastructure. The position offers a dynamic work environment and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Leaders supporting development

Dynamic collaborative environment

World-class training program

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product management focusing on cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of Software Development and Delivery cycles.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and backlog management.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute product vision and strategy for hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Act as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Oversee the delivery of hybrid cloud solutions ensuring adherence to standards.

Skills

Product management

Cloud infrastructure

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Problem analysis

DevOps practices

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Overview

What’s the Opportunity?

As a Senior Product Manager in the Hybrid Cloud, Smart Infrastructure team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping RBC's hybrid cloud strategy and delivering innovative infrastructure solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Cloud Engineering, Security, and Operations, to ensure the seamless delivery of scalable, secure, and efficient cloud services. Your leadership will drive the adoption of hybrid cloud technologies, enabling RBC to meet its business objectives while maintaining operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy and Roadmap: Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for hybrid cloud infrastructure. Align product goals with RBC\'s broader cloud strategy and organizational objectives. Prioritize features and initiatives based on customer needs, business impact, and technical feasibility.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the primary liaison between technical teams (Cloud Engineering, Security, Operations) and business stakeholders. Lead discovery sessions to gather customer requirements and collaborating with Engineering Leads to ensure alignment with technical deliverables. Facilitate cross-team collaboration to address dependencies and unblock issues.
• Delivery and Execution: Oversee the end-to-end delivery of hybrid cloud solutions, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards. Manage the product backlog, epics, and user stories in collaboration with Scrum Masters and Agile teams. Build and implement product adoption and performance monitors, to enable data driven decision making.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance the usability, stability, and security of hybrid cloud platforms. Drive the adoption of best practices in cloud-native engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure automation. Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends in hybrid cloud and smart infrastructure.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure operational readiness by defining SLIs, SLOs, and incident management processes. Collaborate with Cloud Operations and SRE teams to maintain platform reliability and scalability. Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, including user guides and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Must have: Proven experience in product management, with a focus on cloud infrastructure, platforms, or related domains.
• Strong understanding of Software Development and Delivery cycles, with experience in hybrid cloud technologies, including Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Azure/AWS platforms.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and Agile practices, including backlog management, estimation, sprint planning.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to analyze complex technical and business problems and deliver innovative solutions.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

• Nice to have: Hands-on experience as a software developer or architect in cloud-native environments.
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks for cloud platforms.
• Experience with cost management and optimization in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace).
• Background in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Certifications in cloud technologies (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).

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.

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. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

Join our Talent Community. Stay in-the-know about great career opportunities at RBC. Sign up and get customized info on our latest jobs, career tips and Recruitment events that matter to you. Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC.

Job Skills: Agile Fundamentals, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Roadmap, Cloud Technology, Collaboration, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Product Vision