Senior Hands-On Engineering Lead - Data Platforms & AML

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

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards Program

Flexible benefits

Stock options where applicable

Professional training and development

Job summary

RBC is seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering & Build (Hands-On Leader) to drive a high‑performing data engineering team in Toronto. You will design and deliver cloud‑native, governed data systems at enterprise scale, while contributing hands‑on to core development 50% of the time.

You will lead architecture for Bronze/Silver/Gold pipelines using Snowflake, Spark, and dbt, ensure reliability and cost efficiency, and own CI/CD for data along with governance, testing, and deployments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering delivering production pipelines and distributed systems at scale.
• 2–4+ years leading engineers with hands-on and people leadership.
• Deep Snowflake expertise with Streams, Tasks, Snowpark, Snowpipe.
• Distributed processing experience with Spark (PySpark/Scala).
• Strong data modeling and medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold).
• Experience with Airflow for DAGs, SLAs, retries, observability.
• CI/CD for data, versioned artifacts, and data contracts.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing data engineering team.
• Design and build batch and incremental data pipelines across Bronze/Silver/Gold.
• Own CI/CD for data and maintain environment parity.
• Architect for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency on cloud platforms.
• Partner with Platform/SRE on SLIs/SLOs and incident response.
• Implement data governance, lineage, and purge/retention policies.

Skills

Hands-on leadership

Snowflake

Spark

dbt

Airflow

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Python/Scala/Java

Cloud platforms

Tools

Snowflake Streams/Tasks/Snowpark

Snowpipes

GitHub Actions/Jenkins

Job description

RBC is seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering & Build (Hands-On Leader) to drive a high‑performing data engineering team in Toronto. You will design and deliver cloud‑native, governed data systems at enterprise scale, while contributing hands‑on to core development 50% of the time.

You will lead architecture for Bronze/Silver/Gold pipelines using Snowflake, Spark, and dbt, ensure reliability and cost efficiency, and own CI/CD for data along with governance, testing, and deployments.