Senior Director, Data Architecture
RBC — TORONTO, Ontario, Canada
Posted 2026-10-27
Job Description What is the opportunity? The Senior Director, Data Architecture simplifies and unifies RBC's data architecture across the full lifecycle: manufacturing, distribution, discovery, consumption and governance. They own the target data architecture, the RBC Lumina reference architecture and the standards that make data machine-readable for people, applications and AI agents. Success means fewer data stores and point-to-point feeds, one trusted source for each critical data element, and data products agents can find and use within their entitlements. What will you do? Manufacturing (data sources). Name the authoritative source for every critical data element. Own the canonical data model and business glossary alignment. Set the standard for producer data contracts covering schema, semantics, quality rules and SLAs, so quality is fixed at the source. Distribution (RBC Lumina). Own the Lumina reference architecture and the standard ingestion patterns: batch, streaming, CDC, events and APIs. Move data once, reliably and traceably. Run the roadmap to retire point-to-point interfaces. Discovery and machine readability. Define what counts as a data product and the minimum metad