Data Platform Reliability Engineer London

RBC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards Program including bonus

Flexible benefits

Competitive compensation

World-class training program

Job summary

RBC is seeking a Data Platform Operations Engineer to monitor and maintain the Data Platform, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability to meet SLAs for internal and external customers. You will automate, enhance site reliability, and support data quality and governance in a hybrid Azure environment.

The role involves working with cross-functional teams, managing deployments, and contributing to disaster recovery planning. 4 days in the London office is required.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting scalable, high-performance data platforms in hybrid (Azure) environments.
• Hands-on experience with SQL/ETL, CI/CD, DevOps, monitoring/logging, data security/governance (Purview, Collibra), and version control (Git).
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and ITSM tools (ServiceNow, Jira).
• Incident management experience with high availability/disaster recovery.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills with clear technical/non-technical docs.
• Engineering experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Data modeling, integration, ETL, governance, and security.

Responsibilities

• Ensure system reliability, uptime, and scalability while delivering changes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to uphold best practices.
• Monitor performance, resolve issues proactively, and maintain a knowledge base for troubleshooting.
• Manage deployments, data pipeline stability, and dashboard refreshes.
• Implement security, compliance, and data governance frameworks (e.g., data integrity, privacy, lifecycle management).
• Maintain documentation and disaster recovery planning.
• Optimize the Datactics data quality platform and manage data reconciliation/governance processes.
• Participate in on-call rotations for out-of-hours support.
• Design, deploy, and maintain monitoring dashboards and SRE frameworks.
• Automate and modernize operational processes for the Data Platform.
• Leverage AI (Generative/Agentic) and automation to enhance efficiency and self-healing capabilities.
• Reduce out-of-hours support needs through engineering and AI toolsets.

Skills

SQL/ETL

CI/CD

DevOps

Monitoring

Data security/governance

Git

Agile

ITSM tools

Incident management

SRE

Azure

Data modeling

Python/PySpark

Databricks

Power BI

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Purview

Collibra

Databricks

Power BI

Microsoft SQL Server

Delta Lake

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Python/PySpark

Job description

RBC is seeking a Data Platform Operations Engineer to monitor and maintain the Data Platform, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability to meet SLAs for internal and external customers. You will automate, enhance site reliability, and support data quality and governance in a hybrid Azure environment.

The role involves working with cross-functional teams, managing deployments, and contributing to disaster recovery planning. 4 days in the London office is required.