Senior Data Platform Engineer – AWS/Snowflake

JobCubby; Mather (CA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

RBC in Toronto is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to own the design and build of an AWS-based data platform for AML analytics and controls. You will mentor engineers, drive technical direction, and deliver cloud-native data solutions across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers using Snowflake, Spark, and dbt.

You will lead platform ownership, establish secure baselines, and implement CI/CD for data pipelines while ensuring observability, reliability, and cost efficiency across S3, Glue, EMR, and EKS.

Qualifications

• 7+ years delivering production data pipelines and distributed systems on cloud platforms.
• AWS platform depth with S3, Glue, EMR, EKS, and RDS; IaC and security baselines.
• Snowflake expertise with Streams, Tasks, Snowpark; strong SQL and warehouse design.
• Distributed processing with Spark for large-scale batch processing; medallion architecture knowledge.
• Orchestration with Airflow or equivalent; CI/CD for data pipelines.
• Reliability and security design including HA/DR, encryption, and least-privilege policies.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership and platform ownership for AML Data Foundation Hub on AWS.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, pair programming, and standards.
• Build secure, scalable data platforms using AWS services and Snowflake.
• Design and implement Bronze/Silver/Gold data pipelines with Spark, Snowflake, and dbt.
• Implement schema evolution, SCD/CDC, and performance tuning across compute and storage.
• Own CI/CD for data components and ensure observability and SLAs.
• Collaborate with Platform/SRE on SLI/SLOs, capacity planning, and standardization.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud data architecture

AWS data platform

S3/Glue/EMR/EKS/RDS

Snowflake

Spark

dbt

Airflow

IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform)

Data governance & security

CI/CD for data pipelines

Incident response & postmortems

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

dbt

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

RBC in Toronto is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to own the design and build of an AWS-based data platform for AML analytics and controls. You will mentor engineers, drive technical direction, and deliver cloud-native data solutions across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers using Snowflake, Spark, and dbt.

You will lead platform ownership, establish secure baselines, and implement CI/CD for data pipelines while ensuring observability, reliability, and cost efficiency across S3, Glue, EMR, and EKS.