Senior Technical Architect – RBC, Toronto, ON
Location: Toronto, ON | Company: RBC
RBC is hiring a Senior Technical Architect in Toronto, Ontario, for a full-time position focused on designing secure, scalable, and AI-driven enterprise solutions within the bank’s Personal and Commercial Banking platform.
This senior architecture role supports RBC’s digital transformation by shaping enterprise-grade systems across artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, OpenShift, Kubernetes, virtual machines, data governance, and internal banking infrastructure. The successful candidate will work across business, security, infrastructure, and development teams while guiding complex solutions through RBC’s architecture governance process.
About the Senior Technical Architect Role
The Senior Technical Architect will lead end-to-end solution design for strategic technology initiatives and ensure that each architecture aligns with RBC’s enterprise standards, security requirements, regulatory obligations, and long-term technology strategy.
A major focus of the position is the design of AI-native systems, including autonomous agents, multi-agent frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, machine learning workflows, and large language model platforms. The role also involves establishing responsible AI controls such as governance, explainability, fairness, auditability, and risk mitigation.
Key Areas of Responsibility
The position combines enterprise architecture, AI platform design, cloud infrastructure, governance, stakeholder influence, and technical leadership.
Enterprise Solution Design
Lead the architecture of complex technology initiatives from initial requirements through deployment while maintaining alignment with RBC standards and strategic priorities.
Agentic AI Architecture
Design AI systems using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, autonomous agents, and multi-agent orchestration frameworks.
Cloud and Platform Integration
Integrate solutions across OpenShift, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, Linux environments, virtual machines, enterprise applications, and APIs.
AI Governance
Establish guardrails, audit trails, security controls, privacy standards, and governance frameworks for responsible AI adoption in a regulated environment.
Architecture Review
Prepare architecture materials, present recommendations to review boards, and explain technical decisions to executives, business leaders, and engineering teams.
Technical Mentorship
Guide architects and developers on enterprise standards, emerging technologies, platform patterns, and secure solution design practices.
Experience and Technical Requirements
Applicants must have at least 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture or solution architecture, including responsibility for large-scale systems within complex organizations. Experience in financial services may be beneficial due to the regulatory and security requirements of the role.
Candidates should have strong hands-on knowledge of OpenShift Container Platform, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Linux, virtual machine infrastructure, enterprise application integration, and APIs. The role also requires experience designing AI systems with technologies such as LLMs, RAG, MCP, and agent orchestration tools including LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or comparable frameworks.
Skills That May Help Candidates Succeed
This role may suit experienced architects who can combine deep technical knowledge with governance, leadership, communication, and a strong understanding of risk in regulated environments.
The ability to create scalable future-state architectures helps ensure that strategic initiatives remain aligned with business priorities and technology standards.
Experience deploying large language models, vector databases, GPU infrastructure, model-serving systems, and AI observability can support reliable enterprise AI adoption.
Knowledge of identity, privacy, data governance, financial regulation, AI controls, and secure solution design is essential in a banking environment.
Clear communication helps architects align business leaders, executives, developers, infrastructure teams, and security professionals around complex decisions.
Supporting architects and developers through standards, reviews, and practical guidance can improve solution quality and architectural consistency.
Workplace and Preferred Qualifications
This regular full-time salaried position is based at RBC WaterPark Place, 88 Queens Quay West in Toronto. The standard work schedule is 37.5 hours per week within the Personal and Commercial Banking platform.
Experience in payments, cards, fraud, digital banking, blockchain, digital assets, tokenization, digital identity, or agentic commerce may strengthen a candidate’s application. Certifications such as TOGAF, CISSP, cloud architecture, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, or AI-related credentials may also be beneficial.
How to Apply
Candidates should review the complete RBC posting before applying to confirm that their enterprise architecture experience, AI expertise, cloud platform knowledge, governance background, and leadership capabilities align with the position.
Applications must be submitted through RBC’s official careers website. The listed application deadline is July 25, 2026, and applications will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on the preceding day.