Summary
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An Associate Director is sought to lead full-stack development for applications supporting financial risk monitoring. Responsibilities include improving existing applications, building agentic AI solutions and workflows, querying data, developing reporting tools, and serving as a technical subject matter expert.
Highlights
Leadership-level full-stack role combining financial risk application development with agentic AI integration, data analysis, reporting tools, workflow automation, and collaboration with business and technology stakeholders.
Description
Job Description
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 experienceBachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, or a quantitative disciplineAbility to think critically to understand industry drivers to develop sound recommendations for risk managersHigh 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 riskUI/UX experiencePractical 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 compensationAbility to make a difference and lasting impactWork in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing teamOpportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
Job Skills
Decision Making, Financial Instruments, Group Problem Solving, Market Risk, Performance Management (PM), Resource Coordination, Risk Management, Waterfall Model
Additional Job Details
Address:
ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO
City:
Toronto
Country:
Canada
Work hours/week:
37.5
Employment Type:
Full time
Platform:
GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT
Job Type:
Regular
Pay Type:
Salaried
Posted Date:
2026-07-20
Application Deadline:
2026-10-31
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
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