Royal Bank of Canada

Senior ML Engineer, ML Platform - GFT

Royal Bank of Canada$110K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or related field
  • 3+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or MLOps
  • 1+ year experience with AWS components
  • Experience with containers and infrastructure automation
  • Proficient in Linux systems and shell scripting
  • Strong knowledge of AWS data and ML services
  • Familiar with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins
  • Skilled in Python and PySpark for automation and data processing

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement end-to-end reusable MLOps pipelines
  • Build and automate workflows for model lifecycle management
  • Develop a model registry to manage metadata and lineage
  • Orchestrate data and training workflows using Airflow or similar tools
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines to ensure automated deployment
  • Build data preparation and training scripts optimized for AWS emr
  • Manage model artifacts and dependencies across AWS and on-premises environments

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Coaching and development opportunities from leaders
  • Ability to make a difference and have a lasting impact
  • Work within a dynamic and collaborative high-performing team
  • Access to a world-class training program in financial services
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Challenging work opportunities
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

We are looking for a MLOps Engineer to help design and build a production-grade machine learning pipeline for financial risk model training and inference. The pipeline will support model training/testing/inference using Python and PySpark, on public cloud (AWS) and on-premises infrastructure.

This role is ideal for an engineer who combines Python programming, system design, and cloud engineering skills with a solid understanding of machine learning model lifecycle management from data preparation through training, validation, registration, and operational inference.

You'll collaborate closely with data scientists, DevOps, and risk IT teams to build a reliable, automated, and auditable MLOps platform that meets enterprise standards for security, governance, and scalability.

What will you do?
  • Design and implement end-to-end reusable MLOps pipelines with a team of engineers to train, test, register, and deploy machine learning models
  • Build and automate model lifecycle management workflows including versioning, promotion, approval, and deprecation.
  • Develop and integrate a model registry (e.g., MLflow, SageMaker Model Registry, or custom solution) to manage model metadata, lineage, and reproducibility.
  • Orchestrate data and training workflows using tools such as Airflow, AWS Step Functions, stonebranch, or Prefect.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline, ensuring consistent and automated deployment processes.
  • Build data preparation and training scripts in Python and PySpark, optimized for performance and scalability on AWS EMR, Cloudera Data Platform, or similar.
  • Manage model artifacts, dependencies, and environments across AWS and on-premis.
  • Ensure strong observability and auditability through structured logging, metrics, and model performance tracking.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and data engineering teams to ensure secure integration, data governance, and production readiness.


What do you need to succeed?

Must Have:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or related quantitative and technical fields.
  • 3+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or MLOps.
  • 1+ year experience working with AWS components
  • Experience working with containers and infrastructure automation.
  • Experience working with Linux systems, shell scripting, and environment management.
  • Knowledge of AWS data and ML services e.g., S3, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, ECS/EKS, SageMaker, CloudWatch, IAM.
  • Understanding of model lifecycle management from training and testing to deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
  • Experience with CI/CD practices, using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or CodePipeline.
  • Familiarity with hybrid deployment environments (AWS and on-prem) and related networking/security considerations.
  • Knowledge of Python scripting for automation and ML workflow integration.
  • Knowledge of PySpark for distributed data processing and model training.


Nice to Have:
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate, or Certified Solution Architect Associate, or CloudOps/SysOps Engineer Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Amazon Web Services
  • Experience implementing model monitoring and drift detection.
  • Familiarity with distributed training and parallel compute frameworks (Ray, Spark, Dask).
  • Experience with feature stores, data lineage, or metadata tracking systems.
  • Exposure to financial risk modeling workflows.


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
  • A world-class training program in financial services
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Opportunities to do challenging work


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Job Skills
Big Data Management, Data Mining, Data Science, Deep Learning, Machine Learning (ML), Predictive Analytics, Programming Languages

Additional Job Details

Address:

745 THURLOW ST:VANCOUVER

City:

Vancouver

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-07-29

Application Deadline:

2026-08-31
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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