Job DescriptionWhat is the opportunity?Are you a hands-on data engineering leader who thrives on building high-performing teams and high-scale data platforms? Come join us!
Global Functions Technology (GFT) partners across RBC to deliver transformative platforms and solutions. In Anti-Money Laundering (AML), we are building a Data Foundation Hub to ingest enterprise data and power analytics and controls using a medallion architecture.
As a Senior Manager, Engineering & Build (Hands-On Leader), you will lead an engineering team while contributing 50% hands-on to design and deliver cloud-native, governed, and reliable data systems.
What will you do?People leadership and team performance- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team; drive delivery excellence, coaching, goal setting, and continuous improvement.
Hands-on data engineering and system design (50%)- Design and build batch and incremental pipelines across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers using Snowflake (Streams, Tasks, Snowpark, Snowpipes), Spark, and dbt.
- Implement schema evolution, SCD/CDC, partitioning, and performance tuning.
Cloud-native solution design- Architect for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency on cloud platforms.
- Containerize jobs/services, run on Kubernetes/OpenShift, apply IaC, and secure secrets and credentials.
DevOps for data and platform enablement- Own CI/CD for data (code review, environment promotion, data contract testing), versioned artifacts, and environment parity.
- Partner with Platform/SRE on SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and postmortems.
Data Platform- Engineer resilient, observable ingestion patterns (batch first, with optional near-real-time).
- Orchestrate with Airflow (or equivalent); enforce SLAs, retries, idempotency, and alerting.
- Establish DQ controls (profiling, constraints, dbt tests), source-to-target reconciliation, and end-to-end lineage.
- Implement purge/retention aligned to AML and regulatory requirements.
Cross-functional collaboration- Translate AML business and control objectives into technical roadmaps.
- Collaborate with Business, Data Governance, Compliance, Security, and Operations.
- Identify and mitigate risks in project execution, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery without compromising quality.
- Champion innovation by exploring emerging technologies and methodologies to enhance AML capabilities.
What do you need to succeed?Must-have:- Experience depth: 10+ years in engineering delivering production pipelines and distributed systems at scale; 2-4+ years leading engineers with a proven balance of hands-on and people leadership.
- Snowflake expertise: Hands-on with Streams, Tasks, Snowpark, and Snowpipe; strong SQL and warehouse design; performance optimization.
- Distributed processing: Production experience with Spark (PySpark/Scala) for large-scale batch processing and optimization.
- Modeling and architecture: Strong data modeling (3NF/dimensional/data vault) and medallion architecture patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold).
- Data governance controls: Data quality frameworks, source-to-target reconciliation, lineage concepts and tooling, purge/retention strategies.
- Orchestration and automation: Airflow (or equivalent) for DAGs, SLAs, retries, and observability; Git-based workflows and CI/CD for data (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins).
- Dbt proficiency: Development, testing, documentation, and deployment of transformations with dbt.
- Cloud-native and platform: Containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Infrastructure-as-Code, and secure secret management; understanding of cost/performance trade-offs.
- Ways of working: Strong ownership, and excellent problem solving and communication; incident management and postmortems.
- Technology focus: Snowflake, Spark, dbt, Airflow, Python/Scala/Java, OpenShift/Kubernetes, and public cloud (e.g., AWS).
Nice-to-have:- Streaming and events: Kafka/CDC for near-real-time enrichment into batch layers.
- Observability: Metrics, tracing, and logging practices and tooling across data pipelines.
- Security and privacy: OAuth2/OIDC, data masking/tokenization, PII handling, and regulatory awareness in financial services/AML.
- Regulated domains: Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
- Cloud depth: Certifications (AWS) and familiarity with services such as Glue, EMR, EKS, SageMaker.
- Stakeholder management: Ability to influence and align diverse technical and non-technical partners.
- Hadoop ecosystem exposure (as legacy integration), where applicable.
Whats 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
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- A world-class training program in financial services
- Flexible work/life balance options
- Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
- Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies
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Job SkillsApplication Development, Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Big Data Management, Cloud Computing, Commercial Acumen, Data Warehouse, Distributed Computing, Enterprise Application Delivery, ETL Pipelines, Information Technology Management, Programming Languages, Snowflake Data Warehouse, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software System Design, System Applications
Additional Job DetailsAddress: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:2026-05-14
Application Deadline:2026-06-25
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
