Director, Data Engineer

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and incentive programs

Competitive compensation and stock

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

RBC seeks a Director – Data Engineer to lead a multidisciplinary data organization, shaping data strategy for engineering, governance, and quality across a regulated banking environment. You will act as Site Lead, building and growing a high-performing local technology team while collaborating with enterprise technology and business leadership.

You will drive data pipelines, data platforms, and governance programs to enable analytics and regulatory reporting, ensuring scalable, secure systems

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or enterprise data management.
• 5+ years of experience in technical leadership or people management roles.
• Experience building and operating enterprise data platforms and large-scale data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality frameworks, and metadata management.
• Experience in highly regulated industries such as banking or financial services.
• Strong understanding of modern data architecture (cloud data platforms, data lakes, data warehouses).
• Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary technology teams and deliver large-scale initiatives.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor data engineers, data quality analysts, and data governance specialists across engineering, governance, and data quality initiatives.
• Define and execute the data strategy for engineering, governance, and quality; ensure scalable, secure platforms.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery of data initiatives with compliance to timelines and budgets.
• Partner with business, analytics, risk, and technology leaders to align platforms with strategic priorities.
• Drive DevOps practices, automation, and modern data engineering methodologies.

Skills

Data engineering

Data governance

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Regulatory compliance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

Job description

What is the Opportunity?

We are seeking a Director – Data Engineer to lead a multidisciplinary data organization responsible for data engineering, data quality, and data governance capabilities across the bank. In addition to leading core data capabilities, this role will act as a Site Lead, responsible for building and developing a high-performing local technology team while partnering closely with enterprise technology and business leadership.

This leader will define and execute the data strategy for engineering, governance, and data quality, ensuring scalable, secure, and compliant data platforms that support analytics, regulatory reporting, and business operations in a highly regulated banking environment.

This will give you the following:

• Opportunity to lead enterprise data capabilities across engineering, quality, and governance
• Ability to shape the data strategy for a major financial institution
• Build and grow a high-impact technology hub as a Site Lead
• Exposure to modern data platforms and large-scale enterprise data initiatives

What will you do?

Strategic Leadership

• Partner with business, analytics, risk, and technology leaders to ensure enterprise data platforms support strategic business priorities
• Establish data management standards, governance frameworks, and engineering best practices across the organization.

Data Engineering & Platform Delivery

• Lead teams responsible for data pipelines, data integration, and enterprise data platforms supporting analytics and operational workloads.
• Ensure data platforms are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards
• Drive adoption of modern data engineering practices, automation, and DevOps pipelines

Data Quality & Governance

• Drive initiatives for data lineage, metadata management, and data catalog adoption

Team Leadership & Site Leadership

• Build, lead, and mentor high-performing teams of data engineers, data quality analysts, and data governance specialists
• Act as Site Lead, responsible for growing and developing the local technology organization.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Coach and develop leaders and engineers, creating clear career growth and capability development paths

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Oversee the end-to-end delivery of multiple data initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals, quality standards, and timelines.
• Manage resource planning, budgets, and vendor partnerships.
• Establish metrics and processes for high-quality engineering delivery and continuous improvement

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or enterprise data management.
• 5+ years of experience in technical leadership or people management roles.
• Experience building and operating enterprise data platforms and large-scale data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality frameworks, and metadata management.
• Experience working in highly regulated industries such as banking or financial services.
• Strong understanding of modern data architecture (cloud data platforms, data lakes, data warehouses).
• Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary technology teams and deliver large-scale initiatives.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for senior leadership.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or Databricks.
• Experience with data governance tools such as Collibra, Alation, or Informatica.
• Familiarity with data quality platforms such as Informatica IDQ/CDQ or similar.
• Experience building data products or domain-oriented data architectures
• Experience leading distributed or multi-location engineering teams.

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.
• Opportunities to do challenging work.

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Address: 180 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: 2026-03-20

Application Deadline: 2026-09-19

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

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