# Principal, Infrastructure Architecture

**Company**: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
**Location**: Toronto, Ontario
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

You will join the Tech Infrastructure group as Principal, Infrastructure Architecture, working on Infrastructure Architecture as a Code initiatives.

The Infrastructure Architecture team is responsible for establishing the strategic direction and leading the development and support of infrastructure solutions globally for all RBC businesses.

As a Principal, Infrastructure Architecture, you will partner with IT, Operations, and business stakeholders to lead the development of infrastructure architecture, particularly for high-complexity and high-risk IT initiatives.

**Infrastructure Architecture**

- Develop the strategic vision and architectural direction for infrastructure within the Enterprise

- Represents Infrastructure Architecture as required at architecture governance reviews

- Meets with a broad range of business and IT stakeholders to gather requirements for the design of infrastructure solutions

- Acts as the primary infrastructure contact for applications across the Enterprise

- Develops infrastructure architecture-related artifacts

- Presents technical architecture to clients and forums

**Developer/Engineering Expertise:**

- Proven experience in software development or engineering roles

- Mastery of at least one programming language, such as Python, Golang, Java, or JavaScript

- Strong understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms

**Infrastructure and Architecture as Code:**

- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Architecture as Code (AaC) concepts

- Hands-on experience with tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or similar IaC frameworks

**Generative AI Expertise:**

- Experience working with Generative AI technologies and frameworks

- Familiarity with Generative AI concepts, including Prompt Engineering, Agentic AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

- Hands-on experience with Generative AI tooling

**Technical Leadership & Mentoring**

- Advocates architecture principles and provides infrastructure expertise, feedback, and development to mentor others

- Produces infrastructure architecture artifacts

- Reviews infrastructure architecture to ensure compliance

- Ensures that new projects/programs meet enterprise application, infrastructure standards, and follow enterprise governance framework and processes

**Collaboration**

- Facilitates meetings and builds rapport to review infrastructure architecture, decision-making, and problem-solving

- Resolves technical issues and escalates as appropriate

- Prepares and delivers presentations to business and technology partners and senior management/executives

**Training & Professional Development**

- Stays current on technological advancements, identifying potential benefits and risks

- Continually enhances skills and builds knowledge in all aspects of the organization, the business, and information systems

- Identifies operational or architectural risks and recommends mitigation strategies

**What do you need to succeed?**

- 7-10 years of enterprise industry experience at defining infrastructure architecture

- Solid track record with a variety of technologies

- Demonstrated proficiency in a team environment

- Ability to quickly evaluate options, make decisions, and execute within an intense high-tech environment

- Awareness and familiarity with Enterprise Architecture frameworks/processes

- Very strong communication skills

- Demonstrated initiative and leadership abilities

**What's in it for you?**

- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program

- 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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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Golang
- Java
- JavaScript
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- Generative AI
- Infrastructure as Code
- Architecture as Code

### Nice to have
- Cloud Architecture Certifications
- Database like Oracle RAC, Postgres
- Software-defined storage
- High-performance computing
- Ubuntu
- Debian

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