Lead Data Engineer

Are you a talented, creative, and results-driven professional who thrives on delivering high-performing applications. Come join us!

Global Functions Technology (GFT) is part of RBC’s Technology and Operations division. GFT’s impact is far-reaching as we collaborate with partners from across the company to deliver innovative and transformative IT solutions. Our clients represent Risk, Finance, HR, CAO, Audit, Legal, Compliance, Financial Crime, Capital Markets, Personal and Commercial Banking and Wealth Management. We also lead the development of digital tools and platforms to enhance collaboration.

The Retail Credit AI & Digital Transformation (ADT) Program aims to improve AI-enhanced underwriting capabilities will drive market-leading client acquisitions and best-in-class depth of client relationships. This program will enable us to train and operationalize new ML and AI models rapidly with improved deployment and maintenance patterns. This project focuses on advancing NextGen compute and engineering capabilities on public cloud and on-prem infrastructure, establishing data pipelines and feature stores with integrated data quality and governance for high-quality, traceable insights, and parameterizing the ML lifecycle to enhance delivery speed with improved controls, monitoring, and guardrails.

Develop a feature store with integrated data quality and governance to ensure high-quality, traceable ML insights.

Design and implement pipelines for feature extraction, transformation, and storage using scalable cloud solutions.

Ensure data consistency, lineage, and metadata management to support regulatory and governance needs.

Collaborate with data scientists to standardize feature definitions and promote reusability across teams.

Implement reusable pipelines and MLOps solutions, to optimize machine learning models and other quantitative algorithms life cycle management.

E2E technical competency including conducting data analysis, data preprocessing, and feature engineering to prepare datasets for model training.

Work alongside data scientists, quantitative analysts, software engineers, data engineers, and domain experts to collect requirements and establish project goals.

Document machine learning processes, methodologies, and results to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Familiarity with containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes

Experience with cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Prior exposure in the Financial Industry, especially supporting top-of-the-house risk analytic functions (such as Market Risk, Credit Risk or Liquidity Risk), in the design and development of the regulatory frameworks.

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 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

Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.

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