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What is the opportunity?

Are you a hands-on data platform engineer who thrives on building cloud-native, high-scale data platforms and enabling teams on top of them? 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 new Data Foundation Hub to ingest enterprise data and power analytics and controls using a medallion architecture. As a Lead Data Platform Engineer, you will be a senior individual contributor and technical lead, owning the design and build of our AWS-based data platform and mentoring other engineers.

You will work 70-80% hands-on across AWS (EKS, S3, RDS, EMR, Glue, Airflow), Snowflake, Spark, and dbt to deliver cloud-native, governed, and reliable data systems.

What will you do?

• Technical leadership and platform ownership

  • Lead the technical directionfor the AML Data Foundation Hub on AWS.

  • Mentor and coachengineers (techdesign reviews, pair programming, standards), influencing quality and delivery.

• Cloud-native data platform on AWS (hands-on)

  • Design and build secure, scalable dataplatforms usingAWS S3, Glue, EMR, RDS, and EKS.

  • Define patterns for data lake and warehouseintegration (e.g., S3 + Snowflake) including partitioning, storage classes,encryption, and cost optimization.

  • ImplementInfrastructure-as-Code(e.g., CloudFormation/Terraform) for repeatable environments, networking,IAM roles/policies, and security baselines.

• Data engineering and architecture (medallion)

  • Design and build batch and incremental pipelinesacrossBronze/Silver/Goldlayers usingSnowflake (Streams, Tasks, Snowpark),Spark on EMR, anddbt.

  • Implementschema evolution, SCD/CDC, partitioning, and performance tuningacross bothcompute and storage (S3, EMR, Snowflake, RDS).

• Ingestion, orchestration, and observability

  • Engineer resilient, observable ingestion patterns intoS3/Snowflake/RDS.

  • Orchestrate pipelines usingAirflow(or equivalent) and/or AWS-native services (e.g., event triggers), enforcingSLAs, retries, idempotency, and alerting.

  • Build operational dashboardsand alerts for pipeline health, platform capacity, and cost.

• Reliability, DR, and security

  • Design forhigh availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery(multi-AZ,/regionbackup/restore, RPO/RTO-aware architectures).

  • Implementsecrets management, encryption, IAM least-privilege, and network security inpartnership with Security and Platform/SRE.

  • Participate in incident response and postmortems; drive root-cause fixes and hardening ofthe platform.

• DevOps for data and platform enablement

  • Own CI/CD for data andplatform components: code review, environment promotion, automated tests (unit, integration, data contract), and versioned artifacts.

  • Partner with Platform/SRE onSLIs/SLOs, capacity planning, and platform standardization across squads.

• Cross-functional collaboration

  • Translate AML business and control objectives intotechnical roadmaps, platform capabilities, and reusable patterns.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Experience depth:7+ years delivering production data pipelines and distributed systems at scale on cloud platforms;demonstrated ability to operate as a senior IC and technical lead influencing architectureand quality across a team.

• AWS platform depth:Hands-on with S3, Glue, EMR, EKS, and RDS; proficiency with IaC (CloudFormation or Terraform), IAM least-privilege design, VPC/networking, and security baselines.

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

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

• Data engineering and architecture:Medallion architecturepatterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold), schema evolution, SCD/CDC, partitioning, and end-to-end pipeline performance tuning.

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

• Reliability and security:Designingfor HA/DR (multi-AZ, backup/restore, RPO/RTO);encryption, secrets management, and network security in partnership with Platform/SRE.

• DevOps for data:Ownership of automated testing (unit, integration, data contract), environmentpromotion, and versioned artifacts.

• Ways of working:Strong ownership, structured problem-solving, and cleartechnical communication; experience with incident response and postmortems.

Nice-to-have

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

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

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

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

• Cloud depth:AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, Data Engineer) and hands-on familiarity with SageMaker oradditional AWS-native data services.

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

• Hadoop ecosystem:Exposure to legacy Hadoop stack where relevant tointegration patterns.

What's in it for you?

As a team, we thrive on the challenge to be our best, encourage progressive thinking for continued growth, and collaborate with one another to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and our communities prosper. We respect and care about all of our team members and support one another in reaching our fullest potential. We work together to make a difference in our communities and to achieve success that is mutual.

This opportunity will provide you with:

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

• Opportunities to do challenging work, make a difference and lasting impact

• Continuous learning and flexibility to work on projects that you are passionate about

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

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