Senior Director, Data Architecture & AI Platforms

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards program

Career development

Impactful work

Collaborative team

World-class training

Job summary

RBC is seeking a Senior Director of Data Architecture to simplify and unify its data landscape across manufacturing, distribution, discovery, consumption and governance. You will own the target architecture, establish standards for machine-readable data, and lead a governance-first program with agent-enabled workflows.

The role emphasizes data products, ontology, metadata, and entitlements, with a strong focus on regulatory alignment and scalable, auditable processes across the enterprise in a

Qualifications

• 15+ years in data architecture or data engineering
• 5+ years leading architects at enterprise scale
• Depth across lakehouse and warehouse platforms, streaming and CDC
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks including BCBS 239, OSFI E-23

Responsibilities

• Manufacture canonical data model and governance across data sources, with defined data contracts and SLAs.
• Contribute to data platform architecture and standard ingestion patterns (batch, streaming, CDC, events, APIs).
• Operate a roadmap to retire point-to-point interfaces and simplify data landscape.
• Define data product metadata, lineage, ownership and entitlements; enable retrieval and RAG workflows.

Job description

RBC is seeking a Senior Director of Data Architecture to simplify and unify its data landscape across manufacturing, distribution, discovery, consumption and governance. You will own the target architecture, establish standards for machine-readable data, and lead a governance-first program with agent-enabled workflows.

The role emphasizes data products, ontology, metadata, and entitlements, with a strong focus on regulatory alignment and scalable, auditable processes across the enterprise in a