Senior Solutions Architect

What is the Opportunity?

You will be responsible for architectural delivery in the IAM Domain for Global Security Services. You will play a critical role in defining the end-to-end architectures and designs for both customer and workforce IAM solutions within a global multi-cloud environment, and driving RBC incrementally towards an event, API, and ML/AI based target state architecture. This is a deep technical, delivery, and leadership-oriented role, and provides a unique opportunity to work closely with numerous business and functional areas across the bank.

What will you do?

• Define solutions realizing customer and workforce IAM capabilities, develop and evolve solution architectures and designs, demonstrate solutions meet stakeholders’ requirements, and obtain approval on your architectures and designs at the architecture review board.
• Propose, evaluate and recommend solution alternatives that best meet business strategy, requirements, current state environment constraints and alignment to target state architecture.
• Deliver architectures and designs in both agile and iterative waterfall project delivery models. Propose and lead delivery teams through phased solution delivery approaches to improve the viability of the solutions to meet program timelines, budget and quality measurements, and to deliver releases with measurable business value frequently and regularly to Production.
• Support the development of comprehensive IAM strategy roadmaps, providing input to ensure project investments are moving RBC towards the target state architecture, and representing the architecture renewal and maintenance perspective.
• Author patterns to drive reuse of IAM solutions across the bank and its subsidiaries.
• Drive the technical evaluation of third-party technologies and products.
• Be an authoritative and trusted partner with deep, practical experience in customer and workforce IAM and solution architecture best practices to various business and functional areas across the bank, as well as to risk management and governance functions.
• Liaise with cloud, integration, data, security and infrastructure architecture and development/engineering teams to ensure that all solution architecture views are defined and elaborated.
• Participate in and support the execution of RBC architecture governance.

 
What do you need to succeed?

Must Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical area of study (computer science, mathematics, engineering, etc.) or other BS/BA degree with a concentration in computer science or information systems
• IT experience of 7+ years with 3-5 years in solution architecture experience on large projects, with proven experience in defining and evolving the architectures of solutions with large user bases from project initiation to implementation to support
• Technical leadership and strong verbal and written communication skills to guide project delivery teams to implement the solutions that you have defined; strong negotiation skills to compel stakeholders to adopt your recommendations.
• Extensive knowledge of IAM-related security capabilities (e.g., authentication, authorization, user, credential, and role management access certification, access control models (RBAC, ABAC), privileged access management, etc.) and their realization and application across workforce and customer user populations.
• Experience designing enterprise security services that are highly reusable across a wide variety of requirements and use cases.
• Diverse solutioning experience in a variety of environments, platforms and channels, including on-prem, off-prem, mainframe, web, mobile, multi-cloud, SaaS, call centre, public clients, etc.
• Architecture and implementation experience in:
  • Active Directory configurations including domain controller setups, Multi-Forest environments with different Domain Trusts, GPO, OU, PKI, Azure AD Synchronization
  • Networking services such as DNS, firewall, subnets
  • Application architecture and development, with a focus on integration of authentication systems to provide
  • Using a variety of protocols and standards in solutions, including OAuth, OIDC, SAML, IWA, Kerberos, LDAP, ZKP, FIDO2, NIST 800-63, etc.
• Good understanding of network infrastructure and security principles related to IAM.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with different architecture and design frameworks (e.g., Zachman, TOGAF+ArchiMate, SABSA), techniques (e.g., OO, Top-down, structured analysis, component-based design), and modeling tools (e.g., PlantUML, Archi, Modelio, etc.)
• Extensive experience with various IAM products, tools and technologies (e.g., Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, LDAP directories, virtual directories, PingFederate, etc.)

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• 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
• Ability to make a difference and have a lasting impact.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• Opportunities to do challenging work.
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater responsibilities.

Job Skills

Active Directory (AD), Applications Architecture, Architectural Modeling, Authentication, Authorization Management, Critical Analysis, Enterprise IT Architecture, Identity Access Management (IAM), Information Technology Consulting, Multi-Level Communication, Platform Architecture, Software Product Design, Solution Architecture, System Applications, Transitional Architecture

Additional Job Details

330 FRONT ST W:TORONTOTORONTOCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2025-05-012025-07-04

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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.