Senior Manager, Engineering & Build

RBC•Toronto, ON

2d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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
Hands-on with Snowflake Streams, Tasks, Snowpark, and Snowpipe
Strong SQL and warehouse design
Performance optimization in Snowflake
Production experience with Spark (PySpark/Scala) for large-scale batch processing and optimization
Strong data modeling (3NF/dimensional/data vault) and medallion architecture patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
Data quality frameworks, source-to-target reconciliation, lineage concepts and tooling, purge/retention strategies
Airflow (or equivalent) for DAGs, SLAs, retries, and observability
Git-based workflows and CI/CD for data (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins)
Development, testing, documentation, and deployment of transformations with dbt
Containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Infrastructure-as-Code, and secure secret management
Understanding of cost/performance trade-offs in cloud environments
Strong ownership, and excellent problem solving and communication
Incident management and postmortems experience
Experience with Snowflake, Spark, dbt, Airflow, Python/Scala/Java, OpenShift/Kubernetes, and public cloud (e.g., AWS)

Nice To Haves

Kafka/CDC for near-real-time enrichment into batch layers
Metrics, tracing, and logging practices and tooling across data pipelines
OAuth2/OIDC, data masking/tokenization, PII handling, and regulatory awareness in financial services/AML
Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries
Certifications (AWS) and familiarity with services such as Glue, EMR, EKS, SageMaker
Ability to influence and align diverse technical and non-technical partners
Hadoop ecosystem exposure (as legacy integration), where applicable

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team; drive delivery excellence, coaching, goal setting, and continuous improvement.
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.
Architect for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency on cloud platforms.
Containerize jobs/services, run on Kubernetes/OpenShift, apply IaC, and secure secrets and credentials.
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.
Build 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.
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.

Benefits

Bonuses
Flexible benefits
Competitive compensation
Commissions
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