Director, Vulnerability Engineering

Opportunity

Core responsibilities

• Oversee enterprise-wide application security services including secure design, testing, remediation, and training.
• Provide strategic leadership for security frameworks, tools, and processes addressing complex security challenges.
• Manage budgets and resources while ensuring operational efficiency, policy compliance, and regulatory alignment.
• Lead application and data engineering teams delivering the vulnerability management platform.
• Partner with product teams to design and operationalize scalable platform capabilities.
• Define the engineering roadmap for exposure management and reporting.
• Deliver automation and AI capabilities for vulnerability assessment, prioritization, and resolution.
• Manage automated controls validation and ensure controls operate as expected.
• Establish engineering standards, delivery practices, and technical governance.
• Lead cross-functional partnerships and develop engineering talent.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with progressive leadership responsibility.
• Experience leading application and data engineering teams in an enterprise environment.
• Experience designing and delivering platforms for end-to-end operational workflows.
• Working familiarity with data modeling, graph databases, or knowledge graph architectures.
• Experience building and operationalizing automation at scale.
• Ability to translate business requirements into engineering delivery.
• Effective stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working within regulated industries, with financial services preferred.

Preferred qualifications

• Understanding of vulnerability management, exposure management, or cybersecurity operations.
• Experience with AI/ML integration, LLM-based tooling, or intelligent automation.
• Familiarity with security control frameworks and control validation methodologies.
• Experience with graph technologies such as Neo4j, Neptune, or similar.
• Prior experience in a financial institution or similarly regulated enterprise.
• Familiarity with agile delivery practices and engineering governance at scale.

What RBC offers

• Comprehensive total rewards including bonuses, flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
• Leaders who support development through coaching and management opportunities.
• Flexible work-life balance options and opportunities to do challenging work.
• A collaborative, progressive, high-performing team and financial services training program.

Work location

• The posting lists an RBC address at 16 York Street in Toronto.
• The source does not explicitly state whether the role is onsite, hybrid, or remote.