Senior Manager, Engineering & Build
RBC — TORONTO, Ontario, Canada
Posted 2026-08-13
Job Description Are you a hands-on data engineering leader who thrives on building high-performing teams and high-scale data platforms? 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 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. What will you do? Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team; 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. Architect for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency on cloud platforms. Containerize jobs/services, run on Kubernetes/OpenShift, apply IaC, and secure secrets and credentials. Own CI/CD for data (code rev