Are you a hands‑on data engineering leader who thrives on building high‑performing teams and high‑scale data platforms?

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

Implement purge/retention aligned to AML and regulatory requirements.

Experience depth: 10+ years in engineering delivering production pipelines and distributed systems at scale; strong SQL and warehouse design; performance optimization. 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. Git‑based workflows and CI/CD for data (e.g., Development, testing, documentation, and deployment of transformations with dbt. Containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, and secure secret management; understanding of cost/performance trade‑offs.



incident management and postmortems.

Snowflake, Spark, dbt, Airflow, Python/Scala/Java, OpenShift/Kubernetes, and public cloud (e.g., AWS). Metrics, tracing, and logging practices and tooling across data pipelines. OAuth2/OIDC, data masking/tokenization, PII handling, and regulatory awareness in financial services/AML.

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. 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 adaptable benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities A world‑class training program in financial services Flexible work/life balance options Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies Big Data Management Commercial Acumen Data Warehouse ETL Pipelines Information Technology Management Programming Languages Snowflake Data Warehouse Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Software System Design Full time Posted Date: 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. #

📌 Senior Manager, Engineering & Build (Toronto)
🏢 RBC
📍 Toronto