What is the opportunity?

At RBC Borealis, you'll lead the delivery of AI and ML solutions within a fast-paced, collaborative environment, working closely with engineering, product management, ML researchers, cloud teams, and advisory groups. In this role, you'll drive cross-functional execution, align stakeholders, and ensure successful delivery of initiatives that create measurable value for RBC clients. Our mission is to think big, go beyond what's possible today, and unlock the full potential for RBC - and you'll play a key role in making that happen.

The Lumina AI/ML team is leading the development of a next-generation platform that enables teams across RBC to build innovative solutions. Our mission is to empower customers to create transformative AI and ML capabilities using data securely housed in our compliant data platform, unlocking new and differentiated experiences for their customers while accelerating RBC’s AI-driven digital transformation.

The Cloud ML Platform engineer is responsible to design and maintain scalable data and ML platform infrastructure, covering self-serve provisioning, security, resiliency and cost optimization. As an engineer, you will also define engineering best practices, enforce data governance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, production-ready platform capabilities.

What will you do?

API & Backend Engineering

• Design and build scalable REST/gRPC APIs with OpenAPI contracts and versioning

• Implement auth patterns (OAuth2, RBAC) and API gateway configuration (Kong, AWS API Gateway)

• Apply resilience patterns: rate limiting, retries, circuit breakers

Data Orchestration (Airflow)

• Build production-grade Airflow DAGs with dynamic templating, custom operators, and SLA monitoring

• Design idempotent, reusable pipeline frameworks for data and ML workflows

Cloud Infrastructure & Databricks

• Administer Databricks on AWS: Unity Catalog, cluster/job management, multi-tenant RBAC, and security

• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC) via Terraform/CDK with cost governance

Platform Engineering & DevOps

• Build CI/CD pipelines, enforce code quality tooling, and author golden-path templates

• Set up observability (Datadog, CloudWatch) and containerized deployments (Docker, EKS)

Data & ML Governance

• Implement data cataloging, lineage, and quality frameworks at scale

• Manage ML lifecycle (MLflow) and enforce compliance/access control standards

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Translate business and science requirements into platform capabilities via RFCs and ADRs

• Drive adoption of platform standards and gather iterative feedback across federated teams

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have:

Experience & Background

• 4+ years building data pipelines and managing infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi) with strong Python skills for production-quality platform tooling and APIs.

Technical Knowledge

• Working knowledge of Databricks and cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure)

• Understanding of data and ML governance concepts — lineage, cataloging, and access control — and how to apply them at platform scale.

• Understanding of ML/AI workflows and engineering delivery lifecycles

• Familiarity with infrastructure concepts, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational support models

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to translate business requirements into actionable technical deliverables

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities

• Experience with compliance and governance frameworks in a regulated environment

Nice-to-Have

• Experience building dashboards and reporting solutions (e.g., Grafana, Power BI)

• Experience with infrastructure chargeback and cost management

• Background in SRE or platform engineering support models

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

Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Architecture, Cloud Migrations, Cloud Platform, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Organizational Change Management, Performance Measurement, Process Management, Requirements Analysis, Systems Software

Additional Job Details

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2026-06-152026-06-30

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

Our Employment Opportunities

At 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.

RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.