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Come join us!\nGlobal 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.\nThe 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.\nWhat will you do?\nDevelop a feature store with integrated data quality and governance to ensure high-quality, traceable ML insights.\n\nDesign and implement pipelines for feature extraction, transformation, and storage using scalable cloud solutions.\n\nEnsure data consistency, lineage, and metadata management to support regulatory and governance needs.\n\nCollaborate with data scientists to standardize feature definitions and promote reusability across teams.\n\nImplement reusable pipelines and MLOps solutions, to optimize machine learning models and other quantitative algorithms life cycle management.\n\nE2E technical competency including conducting data analysis, data preprocessing, and feature engineering to prepare datasets for model training.\n\nWork alongside data scientists, quantitative analysts, software engineers, data engineers, and domain experts to collect requirements and establish project goals.\n\nDocument machine learning processes, methodologies, and results to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration.\n\nWhat do you need to succeed?\nMust Have\nA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a closely related field at the Bachelor's or Master's level.\n\n8+ years of experience combined in programming, small to large-scale applications with focus on full-stack development; 3+ year in team lead or similar capacity with full end-to-end ownership in delivering a project\n\nHigh-level expertise in programming languages such as Python, PySpark, highly proficient in both data and ML frameworks, such as Spark, Pandas etc. Experience with PySpark for Data Engineering/ETL pipelines\n\nExpert in DevOps practices and tools for CI/CD pipelines.\n\nExcellent problem-solving skills and analytical thinking. Strong communication and collaboration skills.\n\nChampion best practices and in constant pursuit of engineering excellence, automation, and best in class user experience\n\nExperience with Agile development methodologies, including Scrum or Kanban, and the ability to apply these principles to lead the team\n\nAbility to drive technical innovation, including researching new technologies, evaluating technical options, and recommending technical solutions\n\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams\n\nWillingness to learn new technologies and adapt to new challenges\n\nNice to Have\nFamiliarity with containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes\n\nExperience with cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)\n\nPrior 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.\n\nWhat’s in it for you?\nWe 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.\nA comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable\n\nLeaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities\n\nAbility to make a difference and lasting impact\n\nWork in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team\n\nA world-class training program in financial services\n\nAccess to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.\n\n Job Skills\nAgile Software Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Big Data Management, Cloud Computing, Cloud Platform, Cloud Solutions, Data Engineering, Data Mining, Data Pipelines, Data Warehousing (DW), DevOps, ETL Processing, Git, Group Problem Solving, PostgreSQL, PySpark, Requirements Analysis, Spark SQLAdditional Job Details\nAddress:\nRBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOCity:\nTorontoCountry:\nCanadaWork hours/week:\n37.5Employment Type:\nFull timePlatform:\nTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSJob Type:\nRegularPay Type:\nSalariedPosted Date:\n2026-08-05Application Deadline:\n2026-10-31Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above\nOur Employment Opportunities\nAt RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.\nJoin our Talent Community\nStay in-the-know about great career opportunities at RBC. Sign up and get customized info on our latest jobs, career tips and Recruitment events that matter to you.\nExpand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.\nRBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. 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