RBC
Director, authentication engineering (Global Security)
16 YORK ST:TORONTO, CA · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 28 days ago
PythonJavaExpressGitAWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleCI/CDGitHub ActionsDatadogDevOpsRESTCybersecurityAgileNegotiationPerformance ManagementFirewallLoad BalancingLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Job Description What is the opportunity?
- The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in authentication, directory services, federation, and identity management, with proven experience designing and supporting large-scale enterprise systems.
- You'll need a strong background in IT service management, security best practices, and a passion for authentication and security innovation.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC.
- Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.
- Establish clear individual goals, drive performance management, support career development, and recognize strong performance
- Leverage cross-functional and enterprise-wide teams to develop better solutions and foster collaborative thinking
- Lead change effectively while supporting employees through transitions and maintaining focus on business priorities
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Minimum 4 years in IAM roles with strong experience designing and implementing Authentication solutions
- Proven proficiency with Entra ID (EIAM), Okta (CIAM/Auth0), RSA, and Passwordless and central authorization solutions
- Strong understanding of Authentication patterns
- Experience integrating IAM solutions into diverse IT environments (cloud-native: AWS, Azure, GCP
- Minimum 2 years of development or DevOps experience, including scripting/programming (Python, Shell, Java), infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible), and CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Able to effectively present as required to all levels of T&O management.
Nice to have
- IAM-related certifications (MS Entra ID, Okta, Auth0, Terraform)
- Experience with API integration (RESTful APIs) and microservices architectures
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (Splunk, Datadog, ELK Stack)
- Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud deployment methodologies
- Understanding of compliance frameworks, regulatory requirements, and audit processes
- Experience with networking/security technologies (load balancers: F5/GTM/LTM, firewalls, SSL certificates)
- What's in it for you?
- We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference in our communities, and achieving mutual success
Skills
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- Flexible work/life balance options
- Opportunities to do challenging work and take on progressively greater accountabilities
- Solution Delivery, development, engineering and integration
- Provide technical leadership in establishing standards, guidelines, and best practices for solution development and deployment
- Ensure IAM system deployments meet roadmap milestones on time and within budget
- Ensure new projects and programs meet enterprise architectural and technology standards
- Collaborative working with other IAM teams
- Provide project estimates, assumptions, and integration guidance while enforcing consistency across business functions
- Identify cost savings and operational efficiencies through process improvements, effective tooling, and elimination of redundant systems
- Provide recommendations for agile delivery without increasing resources
- Conduct technical forums to promote innovation and collaboration within the development team
Compensation
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
Benefits
- Communicate RBC's vision and reinforce behaviors that support organizational goals
Company info
- At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC.
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