Staff Data Engineer

What is the opportunity? You’ll join the GRM Portfolio Risk Oversight team, which provides independent, effective monitoring, control, and communication on material risks for Business Financial Services (BFS). As a Senior Data & Analytics Engineer, you’ll contribute to BFS risk oversight strategies by delivering high quality risk data assets and supporting our open‑source data infrastructure. Success in this role means developing strong relationships with business leaders and supporting decision‑making through custom analytics and continuous evolution of our Analytics models. Our best‑in‑class analytics stack requires ongoing refinement to provide business users with relevant, timely self‑serve analytics capabilities.

What will you do?

Develop and maintain our open‑source Analytics stack infrastructure

Assist in maintaining enterprise data solutions across platforms, including RBC’s data lake and databases.

Design, deploy, and automate data pipelines while enhancing our data engineering architecture

Create software for retrieving, parsing, and processing structured and unstructured data

Define and build scalable ETL/ELT workflows for reporting and analytics

Support the project team to scale, monitor, and operate data platforms for very high availability and performance

Create and implement data quality frameworks ensuring completeness, accuracy, and integrity

Establish systematic data validation processes to ensure reporting and analytics accuracy

What do you need to succeed? Must have:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Statistics, or related field

Proven experience in data/analytics engineering, including designing and optimizing data pipelines, DB schemas, ETL processes, and data warehousing.

5+ years’ experience in data engineering using Python and Bash, including data ingestion from various formats, API data acquisition, and data processing with libraries like NumPy and Pandas

Strong understanding of Git‑based workflows and GitHub, with the ability to establish repository standards, branching strategies and automation pipelines

Experience implementing and supporting modern data stack technologies

Advanced SQL skills with ability to write complex queries for extracting and integrating data from multiple sources

Strong background in data processing and transformation technologies

Development experience with open‑source frameworks and tools

Experience building data pipelines with Apache Airflow

Experience working with RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

Nice-to-have:

Experience in Financial Services, especially Business Financial Services

Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and data security

Strong understanding of Credit Risk Management

What’s in it for you?

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high‑performing team

A world‑class training program in financial services

Opportunities to do challenging work

Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

Job Skills

Big Data Management

Cloud Computing

Database Development

Data Mining

Data Warehousing (DW)

ETL Processing

Group Problem Solving

Quality Management

Requirements Analysis

Additional Job Details

Address: ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTO

City: Toronto

Country: Canada

Work hours/week: 37.5

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salaried

Posted Date: 2025-11-25

Application Deadline: 2026-02-20

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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