What is the opportunity?

The Rapid Application Development (RAD) team within GRM Market Risk and Counterparty Credit Risk (MCCR) is responsible for developing and maintaining business managed applications used to monitor financials risks to the Bank’s trading book. As Associate Director, you will work on integrating these risk applications into an agentic AI platform, as well as serve as a resource and subject matter expert for the MCCR team, IT and other stakeholders.

As Associate Director, you will also query data and develop tools to enhance ad hoc reporting within MCCR, supporting portfolio monitoring and workflow activities.

What will you do?

• Analyze existing market risk applications to identify opportunities for improvement and simplification, ensuring they are fit-for-purpose.
• Manage the development and documentation of market risk applications by liaising with industry teams and the GRM MCCR team.
• Designing and building agentic solutions and workflows that reliably automate  complex, sensitive tasks beyond basic prompting.
• Modernize the development and monitoring process of market risk applications to reflect best practices and meet industry standards with a focus on AI initiatives.
• Drive innovation within GRM Market & Counterparty Credit Risk by participating in or leading projects that benefit from technical expertise and access to data.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Experience with agentic AI concepts(MCP, guardrails), frameworks (Langchain or similar)
• Minimum 5 years programming or related experience
• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, or a quantitative discipline
• Ability to think critically to understand industry drivers to develop sound recommendations for risk managers
• High degree of programming literacy (Python and SQL)
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal) , ability to present and teach complex concepts to a variety of skill levels.

Nice-to-have   

• Knowledge of market or counterparty credit risk
• UI/UX experience
• Practical knowledge of cloud platforms (Openshift) and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
• CI/CD, Airflow, Authentication/Authorization,

What is in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking, to keep growing, and working together to build and deliver trusted reporting to help our stakeholders succeed 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
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

#LI-POST

Job Skills

Additional Job Details

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

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One 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.

RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.