iOS Development Lead

Royal Bank of Canada is Canada’s largest bank, and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis.

The RBC Digital team is an innovative and rapidly growing team. We are looking for top-tier iOS Development Leads who are passionate about technology and bring a depth of mobile application experience. You will provide leadership, technical analysis, design and consulting skills to RBC’s Digital team.

• Act as an in-house product development expert to support and coach Agile working teams; advise working teams on product specific coding issues and help resolve technology challenges
• Oversee product developers and teams during the product development cycle to ensure technical development standards are being met and best practices are being followed
• Provide support to the development team, with primarily product specific front end developers to support the Agile execution team
• Conduct and contribute to design and code reviews ensuring standards are met and reported at the program-level
• Manage large projects interfacing with multiple applications and/or third-parties Provide direction, expertise, feedback, coaching and development to build the capability of junior technical development staff
• Act as the primary IT liaison with multiple interfacing applications, third-party vendors, IT executive and/or project managers

Must have:

• Expert level experience developing for iOS, including Objective-C, Swift, XCode, git
• A thorough understanding of Object Orientated Programming, MVC and iOS application architecture
• Experience designing and building user interfaces for both iPhone and iPad applications using UIKit and Interface Builder
• Automated testing using XCTest and XCUI
• Experience with networking, including HTTP, SOAP and REST
• Understanding of IT Standards, UX Design, Accessibility, Agile Methodologies, CMM & audit requirements

Nice-to-have:

• Experience in banking environment
• Mobile Payments experience