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This is unique opportunity to be an impactful Data Engineering leader on a fast growing team.\nThe successful candidate will be responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of data solutions, as well as lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented data engineers. This role requires strong data engineering skills and leadership, effective written and verbal communication skills, a strong work ethic and a demonstrated capability to multi-task effectively as a member of a dynamic, fast paced team.\nAt RBC Borealis, you’ll be joining a team that works directly with leading researchers in machine learning, has access to rich and massive datasets, and offers the computational resources to support ongoing development in areas such as reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning and computer vision. You can find out more about our research areas at rbcborealis.com.\nYour responsibilities include:\nOversee end-to-end data integration, including sourcing, lineage, transformation, and storage to enable complex AI and advanced analytics, leveraging extensive technical expertise.\n\nCollaborate with Business architecture, System architecture, Business SME and Data Stewards.\n\nArchitect and implement agentic systems, including tool using agents, workflow orchestrators, and multi step reasoning pipelines that reliably execute business tasks.\n\nDesign and deliver Retrieval Augmented Generation solutions, including document ingestion, chunking, indexing, vector search, hybrid search, reranking, and grounding strategies over curated data products.\n\nBuild evaluation harnesses and quality gates, including offline test sets, golden datasets, regression suites, and metrics for factuality, safety, latency, cost, and business outcomes.\n\nImplement observability for AI systems, including tracing across prompts and tool calls, telemetry, drift detection, and runbooks for production operations\n\nLead the build of batch and real time data pipelines, including inbound, outbound, and event driven flows that power analytics and AI use cases.\n\nDesign governed data products with clear contracts, documentation, lineage, and SLAs, enabling consistent consumption across domains.\n\nEstablish high quality ingestion, transformation, and serving patterns using lakehouse and warehouse paradigms, plus streaming where appropriate.\n\nPartner with data stewards and domain teams to define data standards, quality controls, and metadata that ensure trust and reusability\n\nDesign and build backend services and APIs that expose data products, agent capabilities, and AI workflows as reliable, secure services.\n\nApply rigorous engineering practices, including code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, performance engineering, and secure by default design.\n\nBuild scalable runtime patterns for AI systems, including caching, rate limiting, concurrency control, idempotency, and graceful degradation.\n\nContribute to reference architectures, reusable libraries, and platform components that accelerate delivery across teams.\n\nYou're our ideal candidate if you have:\nBachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.\n\n10+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong Python and SQL, Spark and Databricks SQL are a plus.\n\nDemonstrated experience designing and operating scalable data architectures, including schema design, dimensional modeling, and data lifecycle management.\n\nStrong knowledge of algorithms and data structures, plus systems engineering fundamentals, reliability, performance, and debugging.\n\nHands on experience with data engineering platforms and tools, commonly including Python, PySpark, Databricks, Airflow, Kafka, Snowflake, and modern data integration patterns.\n\nExperience building production services and APIs, including service design, authentication and authorization, and integration patterns, Node.js and Apigee are a plus.\n\nPractical experience delivering AI powered systems, including one or more of:\n\nRAG systems and vector search, embeddings, reranking, and grounding strategies\n\nLLM application development, structured outputs, prompt and tool calling, orchestration patterns\n\nAI evaluation, test harnesses, regression testing, and lifecycle management for prompts and models\n\nObservability for AI systems, tracing, monitoring, alerting, and cost controls\n\nWorking knowledge of security and identity frameworks such as OAuth 2.0, LDAP, Kerberos, and Vault integration, with experience operating in regulated environments.\n\nNice to have:\nMaster’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.\n\nExperience with agent frameworks and workflow patterns, such as graph based orchestration, tool routing, plan and execute loops, and human in the loop designs.\n\nMLOps and LLMOps experience, including CI/CD for ML and LLM applications, model registries, feature stores, experiment tracking, and safe rollout patterns\n\nAutomation and DevOps experience, such as GitHub Actions, infrastructure as code, and automated QA.\n\nExperience working in Agile or SAFe environments.\n\nExperience with frontend or portal integration for AI experiences, for example Angular based portals, analytics integration, or enterprise enablement tooling.\n\nWhat’s in it for you?\nBecome part of a team that thinks progressively and works collaboratively. We care about seeing each other reach full potential;\n\nA comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock options where applicable;\n\nLeaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities;\n\nAbility to make a difference and lasting impact from a local-to-global scale.\n\nAbout RBC Borealis\nRBC Borealis is the driving force behind Royal Bank of Canada’s AI and data innovation. As part of Canada’s largest financial institution, we bring together a team of architects, engineers, scientists, and product experts on a mission to revolutionize finance through world-class research, solutions, and a resilient data platform. With locations across Toronto, Waterloo, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver, we’re at the forefront of AI research and platform development. With a focus on cutting-edge research in areas like time series forecasting, causal machine learning, and responsible AI, we are seamlessly integrating AI research and data engineering, to solve critical challenges in the financial industry. We are building intelligent, and scalable, data-driven solutions that will help communities thrive and drive innovation for our customers across the bank.\nInclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment\nRBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the application process are available upon request.\n Job Skills\nBig Data Analytics, Client Counseling, Coaching Others, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Industry Knowledge, Machine Learning (ML), Results-Oriented, Software Engineering, Software Product DesignAdditional Job Details\nAddress:\n407 8 AVE SW:CALGARYCity:\nCalgaryCountry:\nCanadaWork hours/week:\n37.5Employment Type:\nFull timePlatform:\nTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSJob Type:\nRegularPay Type:\nSalariedPosted Date:\n2026-04-22Application Deadline:\n2026-10-15Note: 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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