Delivery Lead- (12 Month Contract)

What is the opportunity?

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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Portfolio Integration & Dependency Management

• 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)
• Collaborating with partner teams to develop solution estimates and delivery schedules 

Cross-Functional Stakeholder Engagement

• 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. 

Governance & Reporting

• 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. 

Risk Mitigation & Change Impact

• 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.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCED?

Must-have

• 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.
• Proven ability to manage projects with third-party vendors and significant technology components.
• 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-have

• 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.

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
• 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

Job Skills

Business Oriented, Communication, Group Problem Solving, Long Term Planning, Meeting Management, Organizational Change Management, Resource Coordination, Results-Oriented, Time Management, Waterfall Model

Additional Job Details

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSContract (Fixed Term)Salaried2026-04-202026-05-01

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

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