Lead Solution Architect

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Join RBC Insurance Architecture as a Lead Solution Architect to drive innovative, digital-first, and agentic-first solutions that transform our insurance technology landscape. This role offers the chance to lead strategic architectural initiatives, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver scalable solutions that align with enterprise governance and cybersecurity standards. Shape the future of insurance technology at Canada’s leading financial institution while collaborating with a high-performing team of architects.

What will you do?

• Lead the design and implementation of complex solutions aligned with business objectives and architectural governance principles.

• Collaborate with business product owners, engineers, and enterprise architects to define solution scope and acceptance criteria.

• Create and maintain Architecture Decision Documents and Solution Blueprints to support governance and knowledge sharing.

• Identify and mitigate architectural risks through proactive planning and stakeholder communication.

• Mentor junior architects, fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence.

• Stay ahead of industry trends in agentic solution design, cloud platforms, and microservices architecture.

• Ensure all solution designs comply with RBC's architectural governance framework and applicable regulatory requirements.

• Drive solution quality and resilience by identifying opportunities to improve architectural resilience, reusability, security, and scalability throughout the design and delivery process.

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have

• Experience: 7+ years in solution architecture, including design and delivery of client-facing digital platforms in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, etc.), with demonstrated expertise in security, resiliency, and observability across enterprise-scale cloud/hybrid ecosystems.

• Cloud & Integration Architecture: Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), microservices architecture, event-driven integration (e.g., Kafka), and API-driven design. Strong understanding of containerization (OpenShift/Kubernetes), cloud-native design patterns, and DevOps practices.

• Software Architecture Design: Strong foundation in architectural design principles, including agentic integration patterns, messaging technologies (synchronous, asynchronous, batch), component-based design, front-end frameworks (Angular, React), digital-channel-first/omnichannel architecture, secure data integration, and infrastructure scalability.

• Architectural Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional architectural initiatives, influence technical strategy, and mentor architecture and engineering teams on design principles and best practices.

• Governance & Compliance: Proven experience with architectural governance frameworks, risk management practices, and regulatory compliance requirements in financial services environments.

• Education & AI Fluency: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field. Experience with AI-driven design and code generation tools is required.

Nice to Have

• Insurance Domain Expertise: Experience with insurance platforms, products, and domain-specific regulatory requirements. Knowledge of insurance architecture patterns (e.g., policy management, claims processing, underwriting systems).

• Legacy System Modernization in Financial Services: Proven track record modernizing legacy systems within large financial institutions, including experience decomposing monolithic architectures and managing technical debt during cloud/hybrid migrations.

• Enterprise API & Integration Ecosystems: Experience designing and implementing enterprise API ecosystems, event-driven architectures at scale, or GraphQL-based solutions in complex, multi-system environments.

• Architectural Governance & Documentation: Familiarity with enterprise architecture governance processes and proficiency with modeling/documentation tools (e.g., Sparx EA, Lucidchart) for communicating architectural decisions and maintaining architectural coherence.

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

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

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

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Job Skills

Architectural Modeling, Critical Thinking, Data Architecture Development, Data Warehousing (DW), Enterprise IT Architecture, ETL Processing, Information Technology Consulting, Logical Data Modeling, Multi-Level Communication, Physical Database Design

Additional Job Details

Address:

MEADOWVALE BUSINESS PARK, 6880 FINANCIAL DR:MISSISSAUGA

City:

Mississauga

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-01-13

Application Deadline:

2026-07-20

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Our Employment Opportunities

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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