Real-Time Payments Delivery Lead (AWS)

Position Description:

This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our downtown Toronto (250 Yonge St Toronto) and/or Client office at a minimum 2 days per week - subject to change at any time.


The RTR Delivery Lead will oversee the technical delivery of Real-Time Rail components ensuring alignment between architecture development and testing teams. This role focuses on execution excellence driving the delivery of APIs integration services and RTR platform capabilities that meet stringent performance security and compliance standards.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:
.Manage end-to-end RTR technical delivery from design through deployment and stabilization.
.Lead daily standups sprint planning and delivery tracking for all RTR-related technical workstreams.
.Work closely with solution architects to define RTR integration patterns and ensure compliance with Payments Canada guidelines.
.Partner with QA and DevOps teams to enforce CI/CD best practices code quality and release readiness.
.Support and guide teams on cloud-native deployment models (AWS preferred).
.Identify technical risks dependencies and integration challenges early and drive resolution.
.Maintain traceability between business requirements and delivered functionality.
.Provide delivery health reporting and technical insights to program management and client stakeholders.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Must Have:

812 years of experience in technology delivery or engineering leadership roles within financial services.
. Strong technical understanding of Real-Time Payments ISO 20022 messaging and high-availability payment processing.
. Hands-on experience with cloud-based architecture (AWS preferred) and API management platforms.
. Proven ability to manage and coordinate distributed development and QA teams (onshore/offshore model).
. Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated testing in financial environments.
. Solid background in microservices architecture event-driven systems (Kafka/SQS) and observability tools (Datadog CloudWatch).
. Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with business operations and architecture teams.
. Ability to manage dependencies across multiple systems and ensure smooth integration between RTR and legacy platforms.
. Experience working in a banking modernization or payments transformation program preferred.
. Certifications in AWS Scrum Master or SAFe are considered an asset.






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Skills:

• Conflict Resolution
• DevOps
• Financial Services
• Negotiation
• Payment Management
• Product Management
• Project Management
• RTM
• Amazon CloudFront
• Delivery Management
• SCRUM

What you can expect from us:

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