Job Summary

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

As an Associate Director, Lead Software Developer within the Business & Client Services Technology team, you will play a key role in developing and delivering innovative solutions that drive the transformation and modernization of RBC and Broadridge U.S. systems integration.   This includes maintaining the latest and standard Tech Currency requirements for all of the systems in the portfolio.   In this high-impact role, you will work across the full software development lifecycle, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, build, test, and deploy scalable and efficient applications. Your contributions will directly support the organization’s strategic goals by enhancing operational efficiency, ensuring compliance, and enabling future growth through cutting-edge technology solutions.

What will you do?

Work closely with business and other stakeholders to really understand the BCS business, fixed income and equity trades and settlements processing changes, lead application architecture vision and implement the technical solution.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable front-end and back-end applications with a focus on high performance and user experience.

Manage Offshore Malaysian developers that will provide support for Tech Currency and other lights development.

Collaborate with the broader technology group to converge on best practices, adopt reusable frameworks and components and contribute to building further reusable assets.

Solve technical challenges creatively and independently, delivering clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

Contribute to the team’s success by coaching junior developers, sharing technical expertise, and performing code reviews.

Actively participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives to align on team goals.

Develop and execute automated tests to ensure quality and reliability of code

In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with RBC partners and/or employees located across U.S,  Canada and worldwide

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

8-10 years of experience as a Full Stack Developer with expertise in:

Front-end Development: Proficiency in Java, Open JDK, and Rabacus for building dynamic, responsive user interfaces.

Back-end Development: Strong experience with multiple databases and developing REST APIs for developing scalable, high-performance services.

Working knowledge of Fixed Income and Equities trade flows, Settlements processing, SWIFT, trade reporting for Compliance, and mark to market processing.

Experience integrating to Broadridge / DTCC / NASD Trace platforms

Previous experience managing offshore development team

Strong understanding of RDBMS (MSSQL, Sybase) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, ELK).

Extensive experience with messaging platforms like Solace, MQ, or similar technologies.

Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, including GITHUB. GIT Autopilot.

Strong knowledge of UNIX and Windows O/S.

Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).

Familiarity with Agile methodologies and hands-on experience using tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Eagerness to share knowledge and mentor junior developers to promote best practices.

Experience building and supporting transactional and financial systems.

Nice-to-have

Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and distributed systems.

Exposure to event-driven architectures and distributed systems.

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

Opportunities to do challenging work.

Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.

The expected salary range for this particular position is $135,000 - $225,000, depending on your experience, skills, and registration status, market conditions and business needs.

You have the potential to earn more through RBC’s discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided the business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.

RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:

* Drives RBC’s high-performance culture

* Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals

* Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value

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Job Skills

Application Development, Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Business, Collaborating, Communication, Detail-Oriented, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, People Management, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Applications, Teamwork, Technical Designs, Technical Knowledge, Technical Solutions

Additional Job Details

Address:

GOLDMAN SACHS TOWER, 30 HUDSON STREET:JERSEY CITY

City:

Jersey City

Country:

United States of America

Work hours/week:

40

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

CAPITAL MARKETS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2025-07-19

Application Deadline:

2025-07-26

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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