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About the Role

As a Senior Director - Chief Developer and AI Adoption, 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. 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.

Responsibilities

Maintain relationships with clients, communicating with IT and business management.
Monitor prompt response and support for technical issues.
Lead high-performing teams, ensuring high standards and quality of technical work.
Direct 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.

Requirements

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.

Skills

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

Location

180 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO
Toronto
Canada

Work Type

Full time

Experience Level

Senior Director

Education Level

Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Equivalent

Benefits

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
Competitive compensation
Commissions
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.

About the Company

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.
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