Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Digital Product Owner

Royal Bank of Canada$110K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst managing requirements on large projects
  • Experience in Agile development methodologies
  • Knowledge of Payment systems and ISO20022 standards
  • Proven skills in requirements planning and stakeholder analysis
  • Proficiency in various elicitation techniques
  • Expertise in requirements analysis documentation
  • Strong capabilities in requirements management and communication

Responsibilities

  • Define and clarify requirements with business and technical partners
  • Collaborate with solution architects and developers on requirements
  • Manage project risks and constraints alongside the scrum master
  • Work with quality engineering to define testing scenarios
  • Document detailed business and system requirements
  • Build a repository for reusable requirements documentation
  • Ensure traceability between requirements and implementation

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program with bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Supportive leadership focused on development and coaching
  • Opportunity to create a significant impact
  • Dynamic and collaborative team environment
  • Challenging and engaging work tasks
  • Room for increased accountabilities
  • Opportunity to build strong client relationships
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

As a Senior Digital Product Owner in Payments, you will lead the eliciting and documenting of requirements for the modernization of RBC Payment Systems in a fast-paced Agile working environment. Candidates must demonstrate advanced requirement knowledge and be able to apply this competency in new or complex situations. You will be responsible for driving the execution of all aspects of requirements delivery - planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support.

What Will You Do?
  • Act with a product owner mindset when it comes to requirements: defining, updating, and clarifying requirements as required with business, operational and technical partners
  • Actively engage with solution architects and developer leads to take forward the requirements to design pipeline
  • Co-operatively with the scum master and product owner to manage project risks, assumptions, and constraints
  • Actively work with quality engineering lead in defining user story test scenarios and E2E testing scope
  • Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements using enterprise standard requirements methodology
  • Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise and payment requirement standards
  • Apply advanced coverage analysis techniques to ensure traceability between scope, detailed requirements, and testing through to implementation
  • Provide guidance and support to build the capabilities of less senior BAs


What Do You Need To Succeed?

Must have:
  • 5+ years working as a Business Systems Analyst with progressively increasing responsibilities in the areas of requirements management on large and complex projects
  • Experience in Agile development
  • Experience in Payment systems / ISO20022
  • Experience in requirements planning and prioritization including stakeholder analysis and effort estimation
  • Experience in elicitation techniques such as document analysis, interviews, facilitated workshops, observation, prototyping, focus groups, surveys
  • Requirements analysis and documentation such as scope modelling, data modelling, business process modelling, use cases, activity diagrams
  • Requirements management and communication - requirements walkthroughs; scope and change management; traceability; configuration management, backlog management


Nice-to-have
  • Experience working in the Financial/Insurance industry
  • Working knowledge of RESTful API development
  • Ability to read and understand data format definitions (YAML, JSON, XML, COBOL copybooks, etc)
  • Experience in Jira and Confluence
  • Experience in working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) / Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) environment
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Master's Certificate in Business Analysis


What's in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
  • 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
  • Opportunities to do challenging work
  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
  • Opportunities to building close relationships with clients


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Job Skills
Agile Methodology, Business Case Design, Business Oriented, Communication, Decision Making, Long Term Planning, Process Management, Software Product Management, Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Time Management

Additional Job Details

Address:

180 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:

2026-07-28

Application Deadline:

2026-08-12
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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