Delivery Lead- (12 Month Contract)

RBC • Toronto, ON

11d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Delivery Lead within the Vantage Technology portfolio, you will play a critical role in managing and supporting the processes and activities of agile software development. Leveraging your extensive expertise in agile methodologies, systems integration, and project management, you will oversee high-impact, long-duration engineering initiatives to ensure the successful delivery of strategic outcomes. This role requires a strong focus on aligning complex, interdependent initiatives, managing risks, and fostering collaboration across delivery teams, architecture, and business stakeholders. You will also design and execute portfolio-level governance and reporting frameworks tailored to meet regulatory and operational requirements. In this role you will identify cross-project dependencies, ensure cohesive systems integration, and drive alignment across the Vantage Technology Domain. If you are a resilient, collaborative leader with a passion for delivering exceptional client experiences and modernizing core banking systems, we want you on our team.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of experience in portfolio management, technology integration, or program delivery within financial services.
• Proven ability to manage high visible projects with third party vendors and significant technology components.
• Having a strong presence, advanced communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Strong knowledge of the change management and risk management, working knowledge of Software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Proven experience managing cross-functional initiatives in complex matrix environments.
• Ability to develop cross-initiative dependency maps and lead integration reviews across concurrent delivery streams.
• Demonstrated ability to assess dependencies, align workstreams, and facilitate cross-team problem-solving.
• Proven experience designing and managing portfolio-level governance and reporting frameworks.
• Expertise in stakeholder engagement, influencing without authority, and translating technical complexity into business-aligned insights.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with vendor applications
• Experience supporting multiple technology stacks (e.g. Mainframe, Distributed, Cloud)
• Knowledge of DevOps tools such as: Jenkins, UrbanCode Deploy, Ansible, Helios
• Experience with Generative AI, Machine Learning and Large Language Models
• Deep curiosity about how Banking platforms evolve and integrate across front, middle, and back-office functions
• Comfortable with both structured PMO rigor and agile delivery environments
• Thought partner to leadership with an inclination for proactive problem-solving and scenario planning
• Strategic systems thinker with an eye for detail and business /technology impacts
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and influencing without authority
• PMP, PMI-PgMP, SAFe, or equivalent certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed analysis of programs and projects within the portfolio to identify systems integration touchpoints and interdependencies.
• Conduct regular assessment of integration touchpoints and interdependencies to identify risks to projects deliverables and to the integration process.
• Develop and maintain integrated portfolio views and tools (roadmaps, milestones, critical paths) to identify sequencing and potential risks across workstreams.
• Engage delivery leads and architects to assess technical impacts and coordinate sequencing of initiative execution.
• Enable, contribute, and maintain Agile delivery practices in accountabilities (ex: enforcement/verification of DoR and DoD).
• Collaborate with partner teams to develop solution estimates and delivery schedules.
• Build trusted relationships within Personal Banking Team and other functional stakeholders to ensure transparency of impacts and requirements.
• Act as a central integration point between project teams, enabling knowledge-sharing and issue resolution.
• Facilitate integration touchpoint meetings across multiple delivery squads.
• Serve as the point person between projects to prevent duplication, misalignment, or downstream rework.
• Assist in design and implementation of a scalable portfolio governance framework to drive oversight, escalations, and enable risk-based decision-making and cross-portfolio issue resolution.
• Monitor and report clear portfolio-level KPIs and cadence for status reporting and performance tracking.
• Create dashboards and presentations to communicate status, risks, and integration outcomes.
• Maintain integrated portfolio views including roadmaps, dependency maps, and critical path analysis tailored to investment domain.
• Proactively identify integration risks, gaps, or conflicts across initiatives.
• Align technology change delivery with operational readiness and business process changes.
• Support scenario planning and trade-off analysis to enable prioritization decisions.
• Identify points of potential disruption and support mitigation strategies.

Benefits

• 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
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees