Technical Lead

**Job Summary** **What is The Opportunity?** As a Squad Technical Lead, you will work on exciting projects transforming RBC’s core banking capabilities and have opportunities to work on several projects as you, and our fast-paced business, grow and evolve with our customer’s needs. We need our Technical Lead to exhibit an engineering mindset, be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full technology stack. We’re a team of resilient, collaborative people with a passion for learning and delivering top-notch client experiences. We are keenly motivated to step up to the plate and take ownership of our work: we do it with pride. We care deeply about the outcomes, but how we get there matters too. That’s why we’re looking for talented individuals to join us on our journey as we modernize core banking. **What Will You Do?** - Provide thought leadership and act as platform expert while partnering with our vendor - co-lead a cross-functional squad composed of technical, business systems analyst, quality engineers to deliver functionality following Agile practices and RBC Ways of Working. - Be a trusted technical partner to the agile team, helping to solution, size, prioritize, and guide development activities, product maintenance and evolution of the platform. - Be responsible for translating business into technical requirements and a well-defined story backlog. - Lead technical work for your squad. Assess technical complexity and decide on best technical approach. Collaborate with architecture to ensure technical solution alignment. - Lead technical work with external partners. Build relationships with other technology groups and manage technical dependencies. Ensure a clear working "contract" is established between your team and partner teams in terms of technical dependencies, timelines, responsibilities, and deliverables. - Be responsible for delivering and deploying features to production, ensuring quality controls are in place. Work with your team to harden, monitor, troubleshoot and resolve issues in production. - Automate processes within the development pipeline; identify opportunities for efficiency gains and reducing time-to-market, and enabling continuous delivery - Provide hands-on development support to your squad in the form of code reviews or code contributions when needed - Champion a diverse and inclusive team culture **What Do You Need to Succeed?** **Must-have** - Experience working with bash shell scripts, able to write scripts to perform routine tasks, create reports, and manage batch jobs - Experience with Oracle (19), able to analyze schemas and queries for tuning - Experience working with large data sets of 1MM to 100MM records. Able to build scalable solutions with high transaction processing times - Experience with automated testing (unit, functional, performance) - Experience working within coding standards, code reviews, source code management, build processes and testing - Experience using IT Operation tools - Excellent communication, including the ability to simplify technical details into human terms, and interact with non-technical parties such as product owners and business analysts **Nice-to-have** - Experience with IMS, Cobol and JCL - Knowledge of SQL and DB2 on zOS - Experience working with RESTful APIs and interface specifications (Swagger/OpenAPI). - DevOps tools such as: Jenkins, UrbanCode Deploy, Ansible - Experience developing with message queues such as Apache Kafka - Experience working with ETL orchestration tools - Experience with Generative AI, Machine Learning and Large Language Models **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 LI-POST **Job Skills** Agile Methodology, Business Data Analysis, Business Process Modeling, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Requirements Analysis **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 *