Cloud Governance Specialist

What is the Opportunity

As a Cloud Governance Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in shaping technical governance across RBC’s Hybrid Cloud and Intelligent Operations program. Your mission is to design, author, and maintain cloud controls that define secure, compliant, and scalable cloud platform configurations across Azure, AWS, and GCP. You will translate enterprise risk, regulatory requirements, and architectural principles into clear, actionable, and technically precise platform controls, ensuring they are enforceable through automation (e.g., guardrails, policy-as-code). This role demands a focus on control clarity, consistency, and enforceability, balancing governance rigor with engineering practicality.

Key Impact

Enable RBC’s cloud transformation by establishing a robust governance framework that mitigates risk while fostering innovation.

What will you do

• Author and maintain cloud platform controls, ensuring technical precision, platform specificity, and clarity on mandatory vs. discretionary requirements.
• Translate enterprise and regulatory expectations into risk-aligned, platform-implementable technical controls, collaborating with Cloud Security, Risk & Compliance, and Architecture teams.
• Manage the end-to-end controls lifecycle (draft, review, approve, publish, retire), including versioning, change control, and periodic relevance reviews.
• Define guardrail intent for platform standards, ensuring technical enforceability via tools like Azure Policy, AWS SCPs, and GCP Org Policies, and validating policy logic.
• Support exception workflows by assessing deviations, proposing compensating controls, and providing technical input for risk acceptance decisions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to product and engineering teams, explaining control rationale, application, and compliance expectations.
• Drive continuous improvement by refining controls based on monitoring feedback, eliminating ambiguity, and recommending new controls as platforms evolve.

What do you need to succeed

Nice‑to‑have

What’s in it for you

Job Skills

Cloud Computing, Cloud Platform, Information Technology Trends, IT Service Design, IT Service Management (ITSM), Organizational Change Management, Product Services, Risk Management, Systems Thinking, Transformation Strategy

Additional Job Details

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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