Director, Authentication Engineering – RBC, Toronto, ON
Location: Toronto, ON | Company: RBC
RBC is hiring a Director, Authentication Engineering in Toronto, Ontario, for a full-time leadership position responsible for the design, delivery, and operation of enterprise identity and authentication services.
This role sits within RBC Technology and Operations and focuses on enterprise identity and access management, including employee identity, customer identity, federation, directory services, passwordless authentication, and centralized authorization. The successful candidate will lead engineering teams, strengthen service resilience, support secure technology delivery, and help shape the future of authentication across the organization.
About the Authentication Engineering Leadership Role
The Director, Authentication Engineering will oversee the engineering and integration of complex identity and access management services used across RBC. The position requires a strong combination of technical leadership, security expertise, service management, architecture, people management, and enterprise delivery experience.
The role involves aligning authentication platforms with business priorities, technology roadmaps, operational requirements, security standards, timelines, and budgets. The director will also contribute to incident, change, and problem management while helping teams improve automation, deployment quality, system resilience, and long-term operational efficiency.
Key Areas of Responsibility
The position combines enterprise security engineering, solution delivery, technical governance, stakeholder collaboration, and team leadership.
IAM Solution Delivery
Lead the design, engineering, integration, and implementation of enterprise authentication and identity services across RBC’s technology environment.
Architecture and Standards
Establish technical standards, development guidelines, security practices, and future-state roadmaps for authentication platforms and related services.
Service Resilience
Improve platform reliability by supporting defect resolution, operational assurance, incident management, problem management, and service performance monitoring.
Automation and Delivery
Identify opportunities to improve continuous integration, deployment processes, infrastructure automation, tooling, and engineering efficiency.
Stakeholder Collaboration
Work with IAM managers, architects, analysts, project leaders, business sponsors, technical teams, and senior technology stakeholders.
Team Development
Recruit, mentor, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team while setting clear expectations and supporting professional growth.
Technical Experience and Qualifications
Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline. RBC also requires at least four years of experience in identity and access management roles, with strong experience designing and implementing authentication solutions.
Candidates should have practical expertise with platforms and technologies such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Auth0, RSA, passwordless authentication, and centralized authorization. The position also requires at least two years of development or DevOps experience involving scripting or programming, infrastructure automation, and continuous integration and deployment practices.
Skills That May Help Candidates Succeed
This leadership role may suit professionals who can combine security engineering expertise with strategic thinking, people development, and clear communication across technical and executive audiences.
Deep knowledge of authentication, federation, directory services, customer identity, employee identity, and authorization is central to the position.
Experience integrating IAM solutions across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and on-premises environments can support consistent enterprise security controls.
Knowledge of Python, Shell, Java, Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub Actions can help improve deployment quality, repeatability, and operational efficiency.
The ability to set performance expectations, develop talent, lead change, and maintain employee engagement is important for building a strong engineering organization.
Clear written and verbal communication helps technical leaders explain risks, architecture decisions, investments, and delivery priorities to diverse stakeholders.
Workplace, Schedule, and Preferred Experience
This salaried position is based at 16 York Street in Toronto and has a standard work schedule of 37.5 hours per week. The role is classified as regular full-time employment within RBC’s Technology and Operations platform.
Additional experience with REST APIs, microservices, Splunk, Datadog, the ELK Stack, Docker, Kubernetes, regulatory frameworks, audit processes, load balancers, firewalls, and SSL certificates may be beneficial. Relevant certifications in Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Auth0, or Terraform may also strengthen a candidate’s application.
How to Apply
Candidates should review the full RBC posting before applying to confirm that their IAM engineering experience, leadership background, security knowledge, and technical qualifications align with the requirements of the position.
Applications must be submitted through RBC’s official careers website. The listed application deadline is July 21, 2026, and applications will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on the preceding day.