Senior Manager, Engineer & Build

<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b><u>Job Description</u></b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:inherit"><br />Job Description</span></span></p><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Are you a hands-on data engineering leader who thrives on building high-performing teams and high-scale data platforms? Come join us!</span></span></p><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">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.</span></span></p><br /><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">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.</span></span></p><br /><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><b><span style="font-size:inherit">What will you do?</span></b></span></p><br /><ul><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team; drive delivery excellence, coaching, goal setting, and continuous improvement.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Design and build batch and incremental pipelines across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers using Snowflake (Streams, Tasks, Snowpark, Snowpipes), Spark, and dbt.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Implement schema evolution, SCD/CDC, partitioning, and performance tuning.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Architect for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency on cloud platforms.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Containerize jobs/services, run on Kubernetes/OpenShift, apply IaC, and secure secrets and credentials.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Own CI/CD for data (code review, environment promotion, data contract testing), versioned artifacts, and environment parity.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Partner with Platform/SRE on SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and postmortems.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Engineer resilient, observable ingestion patterns (batch first, with optional near-real-time).</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Orchestrate with Airflow (or equivalent); enforce SLAs, retries, idempotency, and alerting.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Establish DQ controls (profiling, constraints, dbt tests), source-to-target reconciliation, and end-to-end lineage.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Implement purge/retention aligned to AML and regulatory requirements.</span></span></li></ul><p><br /><b><br /></b></p><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><b><span style="font-size:inherit">What do you need to succeed?</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><b><span style="font-size:inherit">Must-have:</span></b></span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">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.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Snowflake expertise: Hands-on with Streams, Tasks, Snowpark, and Snowpipe; strong SQL and warehouse design; performance optimization.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Distributed processing: Production experience with Spark (PySpark/Scala) for large-scale batch processing and optimization.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Modeling and architecture: Strong data modeling (3NF/dimensional/data vault) and medallion architecture patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold).</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Data governance controls: Data quality frameworks, source-to-target reconciliation, lineage concepts and tooling, purge/retention strategies.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">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).</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Dbt proficiency: Development, testing, documentation, and deployment of transformations with dbt.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Cloud-native and platform: Containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Infrastructure-as-Code, and secure secret management; understanding of cost/performance trade-offs.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Ways of working: Strong ownership, and excellent problem solving and communication; incident management and postmortems.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Technology focus: Snowflake, Spark, dbt, Airflow, Python/Scala/Java, OpenShift/Kubernetes, and public cloud (e.g., AWS).</span></span></li></ul><br /><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><b><span style="font-size:inherit">Nice-to-have:</span></b></span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Streaming and events: Kafka/CDC for near-real-time enrichment into batch layers.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Observability: Metrics, tracing, and logging practices and tooling across data pipelines.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Security and privacy: OAuth2/OIDC, data masking/tokenization, PII handling, and regulatory awareness in financial services/AML.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Regulated domains: Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Cloud depth: Certifications (AWS) and familiarity with services such as Glue, EMR, EKS, SageMaker.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Stakeholder management: Ability to influence and align diverse technical and non-technical partners.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Hadoop ecosystem exposure (as legacy integration), where applicable.</span></span></li></ul><br /><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><b><span style="font-size:inherit">What’s in it for you? </span></b><span style="font-size:inherit"><br />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.</span></span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team </span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">A world-class training program in financial services</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Flexible work/life balance options </span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities    </span></span></li><li><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies</span></span></li></ul><br /><p><span style="color:#4a4a4a"><span style="font-size:inherit">#LI-POST</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align:left"><u><b>Job Skills</b></u></p>Application Development, Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Commercial Acumen, Enterprise Application Delivery, Information Technology Management, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Applications<p></p><p></p><p style="text-align:left"><u><b>Additional Job Details</b></u></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Address:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>City:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Toronto<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Country:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Canada<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Work hours/week:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>37.5<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Employment Type:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Full time<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Platform:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Job Type:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Regular<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Pay Type:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Salaried<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Posted Date:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>2026-09-25<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Application Deadline:</b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>2026-10-09<p style="text-align:left"><span class="emphasis"><u><b>Note</b></u><b>:</b></span> <i>Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above</i></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align:left !important"><b>Our Employment Opportunities</b></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left"><b>Join our Talent Community</b><br /><br /><span>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.</span><br /><br /><span>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 <a target="_blank" href="https://jobs.rbc.com/ca/en">jobs.rbc.com</a>.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p></p><p>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.</p>

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