Senior Manager, Governance

What is the opportunity?

Join RBC as the Manager, Governance, leading a high-performing team dedicated to establishing and maintaining a comprehensive governance and compliance framework for Hybrid Cloud & Intelligent Operations. In this pivotal role, you will drive strategic alignment with RBC’s objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices, while fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and collaboration. You will be responsible for people leadership, talent development, and team engagement, ensuring that your team is empowered to deliver secure, efficient, and compliant Hybrid Cloud & Intelligent Operations across the organization.

What will you do?

• Lead and Develop Talent: Inspire, coach, and grow a diverse team of governance and compliance professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning.

• Establish Governance Frameworks: Oversee the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of governance and compliance frameworks for Hybrid Cloud & Intelligent Operations, ensuring alignment with RBC’s strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.

• Oversee Audit and Regulatory Readiness: Provide oversight for audit and regulatory activities, ensuring the team is prepared for internal and external audits, and that governance frameworks, policies, and controls are maintained to meet compliance standards.

• Manage Risk and Controls: Direct risk assessments, maintain a risk register, and implement mitigation strategies to proactively address compliance activities and control testing.

• Drive Strategic Alignment and Continuous Improvement: Champion the integration of sustainability, business process optimization, and automation initiatives to enhance governance and compliance practices across Hybrid Cloud & Intelligent Operations.

• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Partner with cross-functional teams and facilitate hybrid cloud-related councils and authority meetings, ensuring effective communication, issue escalation, and alignment with governance frameworks.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• 3+ years’ experience in IT compliance, governance, assurance, or the financial services industry, with proven people management and leadership experience.

• Demonstrated success in leading and developing high-performing teams.

• Experience with AWS, Azure, Google, IBM Cloud, or hybrid cloud environments.

• Deep knowledge of risk management practices and Information Security standards (e.g., NIST, ISO 27000, CSA).

• In-depth experience with regulatory compliance programs (e.g., OSFI, GDPR, FedRAMP, SOC 2) and audit procedures.

• Excellent communication, relationship management, influencing, and negotiation skills.

• Proven problem-solving, analytical, and research skills.

                                                                                                                                       

Nice-to-have

• Experience with automation and self-service enablement of IT processes.

• Advanced facilitation and mediation skills.

• Strong time management and organizational awareness.

• Project management discipline.

• Experience working with cloud-native and intelligent operations technologies and tools.

• A self-starter mindset with a passion for continuous learning and improvement.

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 lasting impact.

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.

• A world-class training program in financial services.

• Opportunities to do challenging work.

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Job Skills

Cloud Computing, Cloud Platform, Knowledge Organization, Organizational Change Management, Product Services, Requirements Analysis, Risk Management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Systems Thinking, Transformation Strategy

Additional Job Details

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2026-05-262026-06-30

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.