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Finance roles in the U.S. are strong candidates for H-1B1 Singapore visa sponsorship because most require a bachelor's degree in a directly related field, which satisfies the specialty occupation definition. The H-1B1 has no lottery, a rarely-filled annual cap of 5,400 visas, and processes at the U.S. consulate in Singapore rather than through USCIS.
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What is the opportunity?
We are seeking a highly technical hands-on Engineering Development Manager for Equity Finance to lead the design, development, and delivery of next generation equity swaps, synthetic prime application. The successful candidate will be deeply hands-on, capable of architecting and writing production-grade code for highly complexity software development activities, leading the design, implementation, and optimization of application services and platforms, while driving strategic initiatives. The role requires someone who leads from the front technically, not purely through delegation.
What will you do?
- Architect and implement low-latency, high-performance for highly complexity software development activities, leading the design, implementation, and optimization of application services and platforms.
- Build position management, trade life cycle management for Delta One products (equity swaps, futures, forwards, ETFs, synthetic financing).
- Own the full software development lifecycle: system design, implementation, code review, testing, performance profiling, and production release.
- Interface with other technical teams within Equity Finance, middle office, and back office to integrate with applications.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards: code review culture, unit/integration testing frameworks CI/CD pipelines, and documentation practices.
- Define the technical architecture of the analytics platform, including service boundaries, data contracts, and API design.
- Lead migration of legacy components to modern, maintainable architectures without disrupting production operations.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and platform engineering teams on compute, grid, and real-time data infrastructure.
- Partner with trading desks, structuring, and risk management to translate business requirements into well-scoped engineering deliverables.
- Work closely with quant research to productionise models; act as the bridge between research-quality prototypes and robust, testable production code.
- Participate in hiring: define technical bars, conduct structured interviews, calibrate across the team.
- Represent the analytics development function in cross-functional forums, steering committees, and senior stakeholder discussions.
What do you need to succeed?
- 8+ years of experience in one of the areas of equity finance, synthetic prime brokerage, delta one.
- 10+ years of expert-level java, spring boot, distributed cache (Redis) building large scale trading applications.
- Deep understanding of Prime brokerage and Delta One products: equity swaps, futures, forwards, TRS, ETF mechanics, stock lending / securities finance.
- Demonstrated ability to write, review, and take full ownership of production code — this is not a role for someone who only directs others to write code.
- Strong foundation in numerical methods, linear algebra, and financial mathematics.
Java, Radis, Solace, Kafka, databases, distributed processing.
Nice to have:
- Experience with equity swaps trading application build out or integration with a equity swaps vendor platform such as Swap One, Nuvo Prime or internal build.
What’s in it for you?
- Meaningful technical ownership at a senior level — this is an engineering-led role, not a management-only seat.
- Direct exposure to the trading desk and commercial P&L, with the ability to see the impact of your work in real time.
- Competitive base, discretionary bonus, and long-term incentive participation commensurate with Director-level scope.
The Expected Salary Range For This Particular Position Is $210,000 - $275,000 Depending On Your Experience, Skills, And Registration Status, Market Conditions And Business Needs.
You Have The Potential To Earn More Through Rbc's Discretionary Variable Compensation Program Which Gives You An Opportunity To Increase Your Total Compensation, Provided The Business Meets Its Performance Targets And You Meet Your Individual Goals.
Rbc's Compensation Philosophy And Principles Recognize The Importance Of A Highly Qualified Global Workforce And Plays A Critical Role In Attracting, Engaging And Retaining Talent That:
- Drives Rbc's High-Performance Culture
- Enables Collective Achievement Of Our Strategic Goals
- Generates Sustainable Shareholder Returns And Above Market Shareholder Value
LI-POST
Job Skills
Application Development, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Commercial Acumen, Enterprise Application Delivery, Information Technology Management, Information Technology Trends, Programming Languages, System Applications
Additional Job Details
Address: GOLDMAN SACHS TOWER, 30 HUDSON STREET:JERSEY CITY
City: Jersey City
Country: United States of America
Work hours/week: 40
Employment Type: Full time
Platform: CAPITAL MARKETS
Job Type: Regular
Pay Type: Salaried
Posted Date: 2026-09-21
Application Deadline: 2026-10-30
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above.
Our Employment Opportunities
At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
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Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.
RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
We are seeking a highly technical hands-on Engineering Development Manager for Equity Finance to lead the design, development, and delivery of next generation equity swaps, synthetic prime application. The successful candidate will be deeply hands-on, capable of architecting and writing production-grade code for highly complexity software development activities, leading the design, implementation, and optimization of application services and platforms, while driving strategic initiatives. The role requires someone who leads from the front technically, not purely through delegation.
What will you do?
- Architect and implement low-latency, high-performance for highly complexity software development activities, leading the design, implementation, and optimization of application services and platforms.
- Build position management, trade life cycle management for Delta One products (equity swaps, futures, forwards, ETFs, synthetic financing).
- Own the full software development lifecycle: system design, implementation, code review, testing, performance profiling, and production release.
- Interface with other technical teams within Equity Finance, middle office, and back office to integrate with applications.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards: code review culture, unit/integration testing frameworks CI/CD pipelines, and documentation practices.
- Define the technical architecture of the analytics platform, including service boundaries, data contracts, and API design.
- Lead migration of legacy components to modern, maintainable architectures without disrupting production operations.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and platform engineering teams on compute, grid, and real-time data infrastructure.
- Partner with trading desks, structuring, and risk management to translate business requirements into well-scoped engineering deliverables.
- Work closely with quant research to productionise models; act as the bridge between research-quality prototypes and robust, testable production code.
- Participate in hiring: define technical bars, conduct structured interviews, calibrate across the team.
- Represent the analytics development function in cross-functional forums, steering committees, and senior stakeholder discussions.
What do you need to succeed?
- 8+ years of experience in one of the areas of equity finance, synthetic prime brokerage, delta one.
- 10+ years of expert-level java, spring boot, distributed cache (Redis) building large scale trading applications.
- Deep understanding of Prime brokerage and Delta One products: equity swaps, futures, forwards, TRS, ETF mechanics, stock lending / securities finance.
- Demonstrated ability to write, review, and take full ownership of production code — this is not a role for someone who only directs others to write code.
- Strong foundation in numerical methods, linear algebra, and financial mathematics.
Java, Radis, Solace, Kafka, databases, distributed processing.
Nice to have:
- Experience with equity swaps trading application build out or integration with a equity swaps vendor platform such as Swap One, Nuvo Prime or internal build.
What’s in it for you?
- Meaningful technical ownership at a senior level — this is an engineering-led role, not a management-only seat.
- Direct exposure to the trading desk and commercial P&L, with the ability to see the impact of your work in real time.
- Competitive base, discretionary bonus, and long-term incentive participation commensurate with Director-level scope.
The Expected Salary Range For This Particular Position Is $210,000 - $275,000 Depending On Your Experience, Skills, And Registration Status, Market Conditions And Business Needs.
You Have The Potential To Earn More Through Rbc's Discretionary Variable Compensation Program Which Gives You An Opportunity To Increase Your Total Compensation, Provided The Business Meets Its Performance Targets And You Meet Your Individual Goals.
Rbc's Compensation Philosophy And Principles Recognize The Importance Of A Highly Qualified Global Workforce And Plays A Critical Role In Attracting, Engaging And Retaining Talent That:
- Drives Rbc's High-Performance Culture
- Enables Collective Achievement Of Our Strategic Goals
- Generates Sustainable Shareholder Returns And Above Market Shareholder Value
LI-POST
Job Skills
Application Development, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Commercial Acumen, Enterprise Application Delivery, Information Technology Management, Information Technology Trends, Programming Languages, System Applications
Additional Job Details
Address: GOLDMAN SACHS TOWER, 30 HUDSON STREET:JERSEY CITY
City: Jersey City
Country: United States of America
Work hours/week: 40
Employment Type: Full time
Platform: CAPITAL MARKETS
Job Type: Regular
Pay Type: Salaried
Posted Date: 2026-09-21
Application Deadline: 2026-10-30
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above.
Our Employment Opportunities
At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
Join our Talent Community
Stay in-the-know about great career opportunities at RBC. Sign up and get customized info on our latest jobs, career tips and Recruitment events that matter to you.
Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.
RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.
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Verify your degree qualifies before applying
For finance roles, your degree must directly relate to the position, not just be adjacent. A degree in accounting or financial economics supports a financial analyst role; a general business degree may not. Pull the O*NET occupation profile for your target role to confirm the required field of study.
Search DOL LCA data to find active sponsors
Employers who've filed Labor Condition Applications for finance roles under H-1B1 visa have already cleared internal HR and legal approval. Use the OFLC Wage Search to identify firms that filed for roles matching your title. Those employers understand the H-1B1 visa process and are far more likely to sponsor you.
Target employers subject to E-Verify enrollment
Federal contractors and agencies receiving federal grants must use E-Verify, which also maps closely to employers with structured immigration compliance programs. These firms tend to have the HR infrastructure to process H-1B1 visa filings without needing to build a sponsorship workflow from scratch around your offer.
Flag the H-1B1 cap advantage during offer negotiations
Many U.S. finance employers assume all H-series visas involve the H-1B lottery, which causes them to delay or reject sponsorship discussions. Clarify early that your Singapore H-1B1 visa has a separate 5,400-visa annual cap that has never been exhausted, so there's no lottery risk or October start-date constraint.
Use Migrate Mate to filter employers by H-1B1 filing history
Not every employer familiar with H-1B sponsorship has filed H-1B1 petitions specifically. Migrate Mate surfaces DOL Labor Condition Application data filtered for H-1B1 Singapore filings, so you're targeting finance employers who have already navigated this exact visa type rather than those who'd be filing for the first time.
Prepare your LCA documentation before the offer stage
The employer must file a certified LCA with DOL before your consulate appointment can proceed. Ask your prospective employer whether they've worked with immigration counsel on LCA filings. If they haven't, having a clear timeline and a reference to USCIS H-1B1 visa requirements can prevent avoidable delays after you've accepted an offer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do finance roles qualify as specialty occupations for the H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes. Most finance roles, including financial analyst, investment associate, risk analyst, and compliance officer positions, require at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as finance, accounting, or economics. That degree-role alignment is what satisfies the specialty occupation requirement. Roles where any bachelor's degree is accepted regardless of field, such as some general operations positions, would not qualify.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa compare to H-1B for finance professionals?
The H-1B1 Singapore visa has a separate 5,400-visa annual cap that has never been exhausted, and there's no lottery. H-1B has an 85,000-visa cap with a lottery that rejects the majority of registrants each cycle. For Singaporean finance professionals, the H-1B1 offers a direct consulate filing path without the October start-date restriction or the uncertainty of lottery selection.
How can I find finance employers who will sponsor an H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Migrate Mate filters employer search results by DOL Labor Condition Application filing history, including H-1B1 Singapore-specific filings. That means you're identifying finance firms that have already completed the LCA process for this visa type, not just employers who sponsor H-1B in general. You can search by role title and filter for H-1B1 Singapore LCA activity to build a targeted list.
Does the H-1B1 Singapore visa allow dual intent like the H-1B?
No. The H-1B1 visa does not permit dual intent, meaning you must maintain a nonimmigrant intent at the time of application and at each consular interview. If you're pursuing or planning to pursue a green card through an employer, that can create complications at the consulate. Finance professionals on an H-1B1 who later want to pursue permanent residence typically need to transition to an H-1B or another immigrant-intent-permitting status.
How often does the H-1B1 Singapore annual cap fill up?
The H-1B1 Singapore annual cap of 5,400 visas has not been fully used in any fiscal year since the visa category was created under the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. USCIS data consistently shows a low utilization rate compared to the cap ceiling. For finance professionals, this means sponsorship applications can proceed throughout the year without the seasonal pressure that affects H-1B filings.