Director, Data Center Engineering

About the role

RBC is looking for a Director of Data Center Engineering in Toronto to lead a high-performing team of senior engineers responsible for all networking technology in RBC's global data centers, including its cloud presence in Azure and AWS. The bank operates across 32 countries and manages two content delivery networks, Akamai and Cloudflare, serving 13 million banking customers.

Key responsibilities

• Manage engineering and certification for core data center technologies (Cisco Nexus including ACI, Arista, DNS), load balancing (F5), cloud networking (Azure and AWS), and CDN (Akamai and Cloudflare)
• Manage multiple concurrent initiatives of varying complexity, monitor and control activities against the plan, and proactively identify, mitigate and escalate issues and risks
• Develop and execute end-to-end change management plans and communicate them
• Contribute to cross-functional enterprise initiatives and integrate deliverables into RBC procedures and processes
• Build strong working relationships with business units and platforms and support administrative program activities

Required profile

• Undergraduate degree with change management experience in complex programs with many requests and priorities
• Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills, and the ability to understand stakeholder needs
• Strong organizational, project management and time management capabilities
• Strong understanding of technology and/or the financial services industry
• Nice to have: ability to influence key decision makers and strategic thinking

Required skills

• Familiarity with AI architectural network designs and complex application-infrastructure architectures
• Majority of network routing protocols and complex security design principles including PAN and Checkpoint firewalls
• Broad cloud networking constructs such as global availability zones and multi-cloud options

What we offer

• Total rewards program with bonuses, flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions and stock where applicable
• Coaching and development opportunities, a world-class financial services training program
• Flexible work/life balance options and opportunities for challenging work