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Director, Program Manager0000050007 Royal Bank of Canada • TORONTO, Ontario, Canada
Director, Program Manager

Director, Program Manager

0000050007 Royal Bank of Canada • TORONTO, Ontario, Canada
15 hours ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Job Description

What is the opportunity?Lead a mission-critical program portfolio governing settlement, clearing, and middle office operations for RBC Capital Markets. You'll drive strategic technology transformation across collateral management, regulatory reporting, and clearing infrastructure—systems powering billions in daily transactions. This high-visibility role offers exceptional influence across the COO organization, technology leadership, and the bank's most complex operational systems. Shape the future of RBC's clearing and settlement platforms while directly impacting the efficiency and resilience of global capital markets operations. If you thrive on orchestrating complex portfolios, solving operational challenges at scale, and building high-performing teams, this is your opportunity to make lasting impact.Principal responsibilities
  • Portfolio governance & strategy: Establish governance frameworks across 60+ programs in settlement, clearing, and collateral management. Define standards, gates, and escalation paths ensuring consistent delivery and alignment with enterprise roadmaps.
  • Performance measurement: Own program metrics, KPIs, and dashboards. Measure delivery velocity, budget adherence, and business value realization. Present portfolio health and ROI to senior leadership and the COO office.
  • Stakeholder engagement: Lead engagement with operations, technology, Risk, Compliance, and business stakeholders. Drive oversight of major initiatives including regulatory reporting modernization, collateral platform enhancements, and clearing infrastructure optimization.
  • Team leadership: Build and mentor a high-performing team of program managers and delivery leads. Foster accountability, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
  • Technology risk & compliance: Ensure portfolio alignment with regulatory requirements, cyber standards, and RBC risk frameworks. Coordinate with Risk and Compliance teams; maintain risk registers and drive mitigation.
  • Enterprise alignment: Align S&C technology roadmaps with T&O strategic priorities, including Helios adoption and cloud migration. Represent CBOS S&C in cross-functional forums.
  • Thought leadership: Refine delivery best practices and provide strategic guidance on portfolio prioritization, resource allocation, and capability building.
What do you need to succeed?Must have:
  • 10+ years in program or portfolio management in complex, regulated financial services; 5+ years in leadership overseeing concurrent transformational, regulatory and modernization initiatives.
  • Financial industry experience must, Capital Markets experience; expertise in settlement, clearing, or middle office operations preferred.
  • Proven ability to establish governance frameworks, measure performance, and present insights to executive leadership.
  • Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills; experience building alignment across operations, technology, risk, and executive teams.
  • Strategic mindset combined with operational rigor; ability to think systemically while executing with discipline and accountability.
Nice to have:
  • Experience enablement, or AI/ML rollouts.
  • Familiarity with settlement/clearing platforms (BPS/ADP, Impact, Summit, Murex, etc.).
  • Exposure to Agile at scale (SAFe, LeSS) and distributed global team management.
What you'll bring
  • Executive presence with ability to present confidently to C-suite and board-level stakeholders.
  • Data-driven mindset combined with uncompromising focus on delivery quality and on-time, on-budget execution.
  • Strong communication skills translating complex technical and operational challenges into clear narratives for diverse audiences.
  • Collaborative leadership building trust and influence across functions without direct authority.
  • Problem-solving orientation navigating ambiguity and competing priorities with pragmatism and transparency.


#LI-POSTJob SkillsBusiness Oriented, Communication, Decision Making, Long Term Planning, Organizational Change Management, Program Management, Resource Coordination, Results-Oriented, Team Management, Time ManagementAdditional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

CAPITAL MARKETS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-07-28

Application Deadline:

2026-08-28Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date aboveOur Employment OpportunitiesAt 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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