Royal Bank of Canada

Director Cloud Product - Platform Control Plane

Royal Bank of Canada$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of product management experience in cloud infrastructure or platform services
  • Strong understanding of IaaS and PaaS offerings
  • Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into simple experiences
  • Experience with compliance and regulatory frameworks relevant to cloud infrastructures
  • Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional team environments

Responsibilities

  • Own product strategy for platform control plane components
  • Translate infrastructure complexity into self-service developer experiences
  • Define multi-year roadmap for horizontal platform capabilities
  • Partner with architects to define technical product direction
  • Own enforcement runtime and policy evaluation for compliance
  • Drive automation of compliance and controls into programmability
  • Evaluate platform investments based on developer experience and compliance gaps

Benefits

  • Full-time employment in a stable technological environment
  • Opportunity to work with a large-scale infrastructure impacting 1,000+ engineering teams
  • Engagement with executive leadership to shape product vision
  • Focus on the latest cloud-native technologies and industry best practices
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams in security and compliance
Full Job Description
Job Description

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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