What is the opportunity?

In this role as a Lead Big Data Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and management of development deliverables for the Finance Core Data Platform. The Platform, leveraging Hadoop Big-Data technologies, serves as the central repository of finance related datasets, with capabilities including the ingestion of positional/trade, sub-ledger, general-ledger trial balances, and reference data; as well as data enrichment, adjustment, reconciliation, analytics and reporting functions.

What will you do?

• Work with Product Owner, Product Manager, and Architecture Design Authority to understand and determine best mix of development and technical solutions to meet business requirements and project objectives.
• Manage detailed design phases of project initiatives; identifying, tracking and resolving technical issues and ensuring solutions meet sponsor needs and project life cycle deliverables.
• Contribute to successful project completion by identifying risks and developing / recommending mitigation strategies.
• Research product development options and provides analysis and recommendation for product direction.
• Develop detailed plans and accurate estimates for the design, build, implementation, and maintenance phases of the project.
• Ensure adequate technical/reference documentation and training is in place.
• Manage all aspects of implementation planning and coordination activities.
• Provide assistance to the application support team in troubleshooting and resolving production issues.
• Coordinate with the Quality Engineering team on all aspects of testing and verification, ensuring quality assurance testing is performed for all changes.
• Attract and retain a team of highly skilled IT professionals including senior and junior developers. Provide leadership and direction to direct reports in creating a working environment of high expectations and commitment with focus on proactively responding with reliable, flexible and innovative technology solutions.
• Spearhead and guide people through changes as a result of transformation initiatives and align with RBC’s technical strategy.
• Impart knowledge, benefit of experience, and mentoring to other members of the team.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• 7+ years’ experience with Apache Hadoop/Hive/Spark/Scala ETL/data-pipelines or other big-data platform technology/tools (Hortonworks, Cloudera).
• 7+ years’ experience in Core Java, and RESTful web service development.
• 7+ years’ experience with SQL, Oracle/PL-SQL or any ANSI-compliant RDBMS platform preferred.
• 3+ years’ experience on Windows/Unix/Linux OS.
• 3+ years’ experience with DevOps tools/technologies, including continuous integration/delivery tools and technologies such as Subversion/GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus, JIRA, Confluence, Urban Code Deploy, Sonarqube, Checkmarx.
• 3 + years’ experience with containerization tools and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Redhat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
• Undergraduate degree/diploma in computer science/engineering or related technology discipline.
• Solid communication and time management skills.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with Capital Markets or other financial technology services’ middle/back office environments.
• Experience with/exposure to cloud technology platforms such as PCF (on-prem), AWS. Azure (off-prem).
• Experience with/exposure to Business Intelligence (BI)/Analytics/Reporting tools, such as Tableau, Datameer, Power BI, Presto, Snowflake, Apache Superset, etc.
• Experience with/exposure with Test driven development (TDD) and automated unit testing.

JOB SUMMARY
City:  Bedford 
Address:  120 Western Parkway, Bedford, NS 
Work Hours/Week:  37.5 
Work Environment:  Office 
Employment Type:  Permanent 
Career Level:  Experienced Hire/Professional 
Pay Type:  Salary + Variable Bonus 
Required Travel (%):  0 
Exempt/Non-Exempt:  N/A 
People Manager:  No 
Application Deadline:  02/28/2022 
Platform:  Technology and Operations