Lead Market Risk Specialist-2

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Market and Counterparty Credit Risk IT provides technology solutions to support Group Risk Management in their management of Market and Counterparty Credit Risk.

We are building a team that embraces innovation and enthusiasm to bring a fresh perspective. We've been on a journey to build out high performing, highly resilient, real time risk control platforms that can grow with the continuous demands on Market & Counterparty Credit Risk, and support RBC's Business goals.

We're looking for a talented and passionate Technical Lead to join our team. As an engineer you will work in an agile team to deliver high performing applications built on a cloud platform and streaming technologies. We believe in continuous growth and expanding your capabilities. Join our team today and have a big impact influencing the strength of RBC's risk management.

What will you do?

• Lead other developers to build and support highly scalable, high performance components
• Lead and mentor other developers to elevate the entire team's skillset and mindset and coach others on the team.
• Proactively seek out knowledge about new technologies and how they can be used to solve current and foreseeable challenges
• Be open-minded and look beyond your stack to solve complex problems
• Communicate effectively and distill technical details into human terms
• Ensure high code quality through automated unit and functional testing
• Automate processes within the development pipeline; identify opportunities for efficiency gains and reducing time-to-market, and enabling continuous delivery
• Design and develop code structures to promote reusability across many applications

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have

• 5+ years' programming experience with Java
• Prior experience in Java frameworks like Spring Integration and Spring Boot

Nice to Have

• Experience in designing, writing and building microservice architecture based applications
• Experience in Cloud technologies such as PCF, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience writing apps built around event-based architecture
• Business knowledge of Market and Counterparty Credit Risk Systems
• Prior direct or indirect leadership experience

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
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

Job Skills

Decision Making, Financial Instruments, Group Problem Solving, Market Risk, Performance Management (PM), Resource Coordination, Risk Management, Waterfall Model

Additional Job Details

Address:

ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-01-09

Application Deadline:

2026-01-16

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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