Staff Data Engineer

What is the opportunity?

RBC’s Borealis are looking to expand our data ingestion platform team. You’ll be working as part of a team to build automation solutions for data ingestion from various sources into internal and external data lakes for terabytes of data.

What will you do?

• Work within an Agile product team to design, develop and maintain data ingestion flows and evolve the platform to orchestrate them.

• Contribute towards the creation of intuitive, robust, and reusable back-end components using modern frameworks.

• Gather functional requirements and translate them into technical specifications. This includes interfacing with other engineers, project managers,

• business analysts and end users.

• Collaborate with other team members on resolving technical issues, improving current products and developing new features.

What do you need to succeed?

• Be a creative problem solver that can develop a plan, take ownership and deliver solutions

• A team player, technical advocate, keen to detail out and share ideas with your team

• An exceptional communicator able to articulate technical issues in plain language

• You keep up to date on back-end development trends

• Understand web/application security and the importance of data privacy

• Bring new ideas and solutions to the team to help solve our challenges

Must-Have:

• Extensive experience with Scala programming language

• Experience with Big Data technologies used for ETL: Spark, Yarn, Hive, Hadoop

• Experience building microservices with programming languages: Python, Java

• Experience with relational databases: Postgres, MySQL or SQL Server

• Experience with at least one web application frameworks, like: FastAPI, Flask, SpringBoot

• Experience with building/using REST APIs and designing microservices

• Basic development experience on Front-end with at least one framework out of: Angular, Vue, React

• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes/Containers

• Experience with workflow management tools like: Apache Airflow

Nice To Have:

• Experience with Continuous Integration tools - Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Automated Testing tools, Git, or similar tools.

• ETL experience involving Snowflake

• ETL experience involving DBT

What’s in it for you?

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

• Flexible work/life balance options

• Opportunities to do challenging work

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Job Skills

Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Big Data Management, Cloud Computing, Database Development, Data Mining, Data Warehousing (DW), ETL Processing, Group Problem Solving, Python (Programming Language), Quality Management, Requirements Analysis, Scala (Programming Language)

Additional Job Details

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2025-08-222026-01-30

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

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