Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) announced plans to create hundreds of technology roles at a new Calgary Innovation Hub scheduled to launch this September.
The Hub will help grow the city’s tech ecosystem with jobs in high-demand areas such as artificial intelligence, data engineering, full stack agile software delivery, site reliability engineering, machine learning and data analytics, among other skills.
“The investment is a demonstration of Calgary’s strengths in areas such as data sciences and software design as well as Calgary’s overall strength as a tech and innovation centre,” said the city’s mayor, Naheed Nenshi, in a statement.
RBC plans to welcome 300 tech employees over the next three years to the Hub, who will join its global Technology and Operations team and contribute to the organization’s strategy to create more value through technology and build an innovation ecosystem that empowers clients, advances businesses and supports communities.
They will join the approximately 1,500 RBC employees in Calgary and more than 4,000 in Alberta who currently support its Wealth Management, Capital Markets and Personal and Commercial Banking businesses.