Senior Business Systems Analyst

RBC; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards Program

Flexible benefits

Coaching & development

Flexible work/life balance

Impactful work

Job summary

RBC in Montréal, Canada seeks a Technical Business Systems Analyst to bridge business needs with IT solutions. Analyze systems, write user stories, validate rules, and design data-driven tests to improve processes while ensuring compliance and quality.

You'll collaborate with business units, software engineers, and QA analysts across Canada and worldwide. Focus areas include data flows, risk management in banking, value stream analysis, and proposing automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field with 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst.
• API & integration knowledge for REST/SOAP API data exchange.
• Advanced SQL skills to extract, transform, and analyze data from multiple databases.
• Experience with data masking and test data management for testing.
• Proficiency in data visualization using Tableau/Power BI.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and Git version control.

Responsibilities

• Translate and validate complex business rules with stakeholders, ensuring mutual agreement on definitions, logic, and expected outcomes.
• Curate feature-specific test data sets that align with distinct business logic, workflows, and use cases to enable comprehensive functional and regression testing across all system modules.
• Design and generate synthetic, anonymized, or masked test data to validate system functionality, reports, and business rules, ensuring test data covers edge cases, compliance scenarios, and performance requirements.
• Gain understanding of upstream applications and the data provided, interfacing with other app teams and architects as needed to document dataflows.
• Implement data masking techniques to protect sensitive information in non-production environments.
• Design and evaluate system solutions that meet business objectives, including assessing existing systems and recommending improvements or replacements, while creating system diagrams and technical specifications to guide implementation.
• Identify inefficiencies in existing systems (e.g., legacy core banking platforms) and recommend improvements.
• Value Stream Analysis: Identifying bottlenecks and opportunities for automation or data-driven improvements.
• In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with RBC partners and/or employees located across Canada and/or worldwide.

Skills

APIs & Integration Knowledge

SQL Proficiency

Data Visualization Tools

Jira Confluence Git

Big Data & Databases

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science or related field

5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst in financial services

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Lucidchart

Visio

Snowflake

Oracle

SQL Server

DB2

Job description

Job Description

A technical professional who bridges business needs and IT solutions. They analyze organizational systems, create user stories, identify inefficiencies, and recommend technology solutions to improve business processes. This role is ideal for technical problem-solvers who excel at implementing innovative solutions while maintaining compliance and quality. Proficiency in banking systems, data flows, and associated risks is a strong asset. Your core responsibilities revolve around three key pillars: business rule validation and alignment, where you ensure technical solutions meet organizational goals; test strategy and execution, designing robust frameworks for system reliability and process optimization, leveraging technology to streamline workflows. You will act as a liaison between business units, software engineers, and quality analysts.

What will you do?

• Translate and validate complex business rules with stakeholders, ensuring mutual agreement on definitions, logic, and expected outcomes.

• Curate feature-specific test data sets that align with distinct business logic, workflows, and use cases to enable comprehensive functional and regression testing across all system modules.

• Design and generate synthetic, anonymized, or masked test data to validate system functionality, reports, and business rules, ensuring test data covers edge cases, compliance scenarios, and performance requirements.

• Gain understanding of upstream applications and the data provided, interfacing with other app teams and architects as needed to document dataflows.

• Implement data masking techniques to protect sensitive information in non-production environments.

• Design and evaluate system solutions that meet business objectives, including assessing existing systems and recommending improvements or replacements, while creating system diagrams and technical specifications to guide implementation.

• Identify inefficiencies in existing systems (e.g., legacy core banking platforms) and recommend improvements.

• Value Stream Analysis : Identifying bottlenecks and opportunities for automation or data-driven improvements.

• In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with RBC partners and/or employees located across Canada and/or worldwide.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science or a related field with 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst, preferably in financial services.

• API & Integration Knowledge : Familiarity withREST/SOAP APIsto facilitate data exchange between systems (e.g., integrating client data).

• SQL: Advanced proficiency to extract, transform, and analyze data from relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server). DB2, legacy systems and big data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Hadoop) are big assets.

• Test Data Management : Skills in generating synthetic data, data masking, or subset extraction to support testing (e.g., using tools or custom scripts).

• Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Lucid chart and Visio).

• Collaboration platforms likeJira, Confluence and Git version control system.

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

• Flexible work/life balance options

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

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Job Skills

Agile Methodology, Business Data Analysis, Business Process Modeling, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Requirements Analysis

Additional Job Details

Address:

1 PLACE VILLE MARIE:MONTRÉAL

City:

Montréal

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-06-16

Application Deadline:

2026-10-23

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

Our Employment Opportunities

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.