Senior Manager, Engineer & Build

rbc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards program

Professional development

Flexible work options

Stock opportunities where applicable

Job summary

RBC is seeking a hands-on Senior Manager, Engineering & Build to lead a high-impact data platform team in Toronto. You will mentor engineers, drive delivery excellence, and contribute ~50% hands-on to design cloud-native, governed data systems in AML.

The role blends leadership with technical execution across Snowflake, Spark, dbt, Airflow, Python/Scala/Java, and Kubernetes/OpenShift, delivering scalable pipelines and reliable data foundations for analytics and controls.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering delivering production pipelines and distributed systems at scale.
• 2-4+ years leading engineers with hands-on leadership.
• Snowflake: Hands-on with Streams, Tasks, Snowpark, Snowpipe; strong SQL and warehouse design.
• Distributed processing with Spark (PySpark/Scala) for large-scale batch processing.
• Data modeling and medallion architecture patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold).
• Orchestration and automation: Airflow; CI/CD for data workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team with coaching and goal setting.
• Design and build batch/incremental pipelines across Bronze/Silver/Gold with Snowflake, Spark, dbt.
• Architect for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency on cloud platforms.
• Containerize jobs/services and run on Kubernetes/OpenShift with IaC and secure secrets.
• Own CI/CD for data artifacts, environment parity, and data contracts.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Snowflake

Spark

dbt

Airflow

Python/Scala/Java

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Data governance

CI/CD

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

dbt

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Spark

Python/Scala/Java

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

Are you a hands-on data engineering leader who thrives on building high-performing teams and high-scale data platforms? Come join us! Global Functions Technology (GFT) partners across RBC to deliver transformative platforms and solutions. In Anti-Money Laundering (AML), we are building a Data Foundation Hub to ingest enterprise data and power analytics and controls using a medallion architecture.

As a Senior Manager, Engineering & Build (Hands-On Leader), you will lead an engineering team while contributing ≈50% hands-on to design and deliver cloud-native, governed, and reliable data systems.

What will you do?

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team; drive delivery excellence, coaching, goal setting, and continuous improvement.


• Design and build batch and incremental pipelines across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers using Snowflake (Streams, Tasks, Snowpark, Snowpipes), Spark, and dbt.


• Implement schema evolution, SCD/CDC, partitioning, and performance tuning.


• Architect for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency on cloud platforms.


• Containerize jobs/services, run on Kubernetes/OpenShift, apply IaC, and secure secrets and credentials.


• Own CI/CD for data (code review, environment promotion, data contract testing), versioned artifacts, and environment parity.


• Partner with Platform/SRE on SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and postmortems.


• Engineer resilient, observable ingestion patterns (batch first, with optional near-real-time).


• Orchestrate with Airflow (or equivalent); enforce SLAs, retries, idempotency, and alerting.


• Establish DQ controls (profiling, constraints, dbt tests), source-to-target reconciliation, and end-to-end lineage.


• Implement purge/retention aligned to AML and regulatory requirements.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• Experience depth: 10+ years in engineering delivering production pipelines and distributed systems at scale; 2-4+ years leading engineers with a proven balance of hands-on and people leadership.


• Snowflake expertise: Hands-on with Streams, Tasks, Snowpark, and Snowpipe; strong SQL and warehouse design; performance optimization.


• Distributed processing: Production experience with Spark (PySpark/Scala) for large-scale batch processing and optimization.


• Modeling and architecture: Strong data modeling (3NF/dimensional/data vault) and medallion architecture patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold).


• Data governance controls: Data quality frameworks, source-to-target reconciliation, lineage concepts and tooling, purge/retention strategies.


• Orchestration and automation: Airflow (or equivalent) for DAGs, SLAs, retries, and observability; Git‑based workflows and CI/CD for data (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins).


• Dbt proficiency: Development, testing, documentation, and deployment of transformations with dbt.


• Cloud-native and platform: Containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Infrastructure-as-Code, and secure secret management; understanding of cost/performance trade‑offs.


• Ways of working: Strong ownership, and excellent problem solving and communication; incident management and postmortems.


• Technology focus: Snowflake, Spark, dbt, Airflow, Python/Scala/Java, OpenShift/Kubernetes, and public cloud (e.g., AWS).

Nice-to-have:

• Streaming and events: Kafka/CDC for near-real-time enrichment into batch layers.


• Observability: Metrics, tracing, and logging practices and tooling across data pipelines.


• Security and privacy: OAuth2/OIDC, data masking/tokenization, PII handling, and regulatory awareness in financial services/AML.


• Regulated domains: Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.


• Cloud depth: Certifications (AWS) and familiarity with services such as Glue, EMR, EKS, SageMaker.


• Stakeholder management: Ability to influence and align diverse technical and non-technical partners.


• Hadoop ecosystem exposure (as legacy integration), where applicable.

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


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


• A world‑class training program in financial services


• Flexible work/life balance options


• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities


• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

Job Skills

Application Development, Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Commercial Acumen, Enterprise Application Delivery, Information Technology Management, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle