Senior Manager, Data Lead (Global Security)

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Toronto is seeking an experienced Insider Risk High-Risk Access Senior Manager to enhance the monitoring and security of high-risk access. The ideal candidate will have expertise in data management, scripting, and risk management. This role offers competitive compensation and a collaborative team environment focused on professional growth and community impact.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Flexible work/life balance options

Opportunities for career development

Qualifications

• Expertise in data management and access, extraction, and analysis of data from enterprise systems.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or SQL.
• Strong investigative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Extract and analyze data from enterprise systems.
• Develop and maintain data models for risk oversight.
• Collaborate with HR for insider risk assessments during onboarding.

Skills

Data management and access

Scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, SQL)

Investigative and analytical skills

Collaborative mindset

Education

Industry-related certification (e.g., CITPM, CFE, CISSP)

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Insider Risk High-Risk Access Senior Manager, Data Lead to join our innovative and growing team. As a key member of our Insider Risk team, you will play a critical role in enhancing the monitoring, oversight, and security of high-risk access within our organization and its subsidiaries.

What will you do?

• Extract, and analyze data from enterprise systems, such as high-risk permission usage, app monitoring, and case management platforms.
• Develop and maintain data models to support risk-based oversight and analytics
• Identify access patterns across data sources resulting in corrective actions to strengthen risk management practices.
• Enhance and expand risk-based oversight over high-risk access, including privileged users, front-line staff, HR, procurement, critical business functions, technology, and development.
• Create and maintain sustainable procedures and process documentation.
• Ensure all analytics work is well-documented, repeatable, and aligned with internal audit standards and regulatory expectations.
• Collaborate with HR and hiring managers to assess insider risk factors during onboarding, offboarding, promotions, and role transitions and address any gaps using IT risk management practices.
• Work across multiple projects and systems to develop, communicate, and mentor others on solution design, implementation, operational patterns and best practices.

Must-Have:

• Expertise in data management and access, extraction, and analysis of data from enterprise systems. Proven ability to perform complex data analysis on large volumes of data.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or SQL to automate data extraction, processing, and analysis tasks
• Practical understanding of data protection risk, exposures, and effective controls.
• Familiarity with AI/ML use cases in (e.g., anomaly detection, identity drift tracking).
• Strong investigative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Technical experience with effective access management and risk management focusing on higher-risk roles and ongoing risk reviews.
• Collaborative mindset with experience working cross-functionally with IT support, Identity and Access Management, IT, and security/compliance teams.

Nice-to-Have:

• Audit, operational support, data protection, or governance/risk management experience.
• Familiarity with internal audit practices, control frameworks, and data-driven assurance methodologies.
• Knowledge of source data points related to business and infrastructure applications across RBC and subsidiaries.
• Industry-related certification (e.g., CITPM, CFE, CISSP).
• Background in digital forensics, behavioral psychology, or advanced analytics.
• Knowledge of financial services business lines and associated applications and processes.

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 team and business partners. 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.
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work.
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At 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.