Product Strategy & Vision

Own end-to-end product strategy for platform control plane components — resource lifecycle management, authentication/authorization, policy enforcement, and compliance automation — ensuring coherent horizontal services that underpin both IaaS and PaaS offerings

Translate infrastructure complexity into simple, self-service developer experiences — championing the principle of "abstracted complexity, consistent experience"

Define and drive the multi-year roadmap for horizontal platform capabilities, ensuring coherence across all cloud providers and on-premises environments

Technical Product Leadership​​

Partner with platform architects and engineering leads to define technical product direction for multi-tenant infrastructure governance — including admission control, infrastructure resource lifecycle management, and policy enforcement at the control plane layer

Own the infrastructure controls engine — the enforcement runtime, policy evaluation framework, and audit evidence pipeline. Vertical product leads define domain-specific policy criteria; this role ensures they execute reliably, coherently, and in compliance with cross-cutting regulatory requirements

Drive convergence of compliance and controls capabilities into a programmable engine — translating regulatory requirements (OSFI, internal risk frameworks) into automated, auditable platform controls that reduce manual overhead for consuming teams

Define and enforce platform contracts: what service providers must implement vs. what the control plane provides horizontally

Execution & Delivery

Evaluates and prioritizes platform investments based on tenant adoption metrics, developer experience friction, compliance coverage gaps, and infrastructure cost efficiency — presenting trade-offs and recommendations to senior leadership





Defines and measures product success through platform health metrics — tenant onboarding velocity, self-service adoption rates, policy compliance coverage, and control plane reliability (availability, latency, reconciliation time)

Monitors the cloud-native ecosystem (CNCF projects, hyperscaler platform patterns, open-source control plane tooling) to inform build-vs-adopt decisions and maintain architectural currency across the platform

Lead OKR-based planning and delivery for the control plane product team with rigorous backlog discipline and transparent escalation of blockers

Stakeholder & Executive Engagement​

Coordinates across vertical product leads (IaaS, PaaS), platform engineering, security, and enterprise architecture to ensure horizontal services meet the needs of 1,000+ engineering teams while maintaining platform integrity and operational reliability

Serve as the primary product voice for the control plane to executive leadership

Translate platform strategy into business impact narratives: cost avoidance, time-to-production reduction, compliance posture, and developer productivity

Partner with FinOps on consumption models, chargeback design, and unit cost economics​

Collaborate with Security, Build, and Compliance teams to ensure the control plane enforces governance-by-default

Job Skills

Business Case Design, Critical Thinking, Knowledge Organization, Product Development Lifecycle, Product Development Methodology, Product Manufacturing, Product Services,



Product Testing, Results-Oriented

Additional Job Details

Address

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City

Toronto

Country

Canada

Work hours/week

37.5

Employment Type

Full time

Platform

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type

Regular

Pay Type

Salaried

Posted Date

2026-08-10

Application Deadline

2026-08-31

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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📌 Director Cloud Product — Platform Control Plane (Toronto)
🏢 Royal Bank of Canada
📍 Toronto