Associate Director, Lead Business Analyst

Royal Bank of Canada•Toronto, ON

5d•Onsite

About The Position

RBC Capital Markets Technology's Data Content team is seeking a skilled Data Analyst to join our team. The successful candidate will work alongside Business Analysts and Data Modelers, with primary responsibilities including documenting and identifying data requirements gaps, supporting dataset registration, ingestion, and consumption processes, standardizing data across the Capital Markets domain (including Trades, Orders, RFQs, Risk calculations, Profit & Loss reporting, and structured/unstructured analytics datasets), and collaborating with senior Data Architects, IT System Owners, Business Analysts, Data Stewards, and Data Owners to drive standardization efforts across Lines of Business and functions (Front Office, Operations, Market Risk, Finance, etc.).

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or Engineering
Business Analysis, Data Modeling, or related analyst experience
SQL proficiency
Exposure to data analytics
Capital Markets industry knowledge

Nice To Haves

Python
Cross-asset experience (Cash and Derivative Products including Rates, Credit, Commodities, Equities)
Understanding of Trade Lifecycle (Pre/Post) and Front-to-Back functions
Post-graduate certification
Data modeling experience
FIX, FIXML, React.js, JSON, or Java

Responsibilities

Lead stakeholder meetings to gather and document data requirements
Prepare mapping documents and business specifications
Analyze requirements, identify gaps, and recommend sourcing and delivery strategies
Support dataset ingestion, classification, registration, and consumption processes in partnership with Data Content & Modeling (DCM) and Data Fabric teams
Participate in intake forums for Data Fabric and DCM requests
Develop queries and views to support data consumption strategies aligned with business requirements