# Senior Director, Data Architecture

**Company**: RBC
**Location**: Toronto, Ontario
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Senior Director, Data Architecture simplifies and unifies RBC's data architecture across the full lifecycle: manufacturing, distribution, discovery, consumption and governance.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Develop and implement a target data architecture that is machine-readable for AI agents

- Establish standards for data quality, governance, and compliance

- Collaborate with stakeholders to define data products and ensure their accuracy and interpretability

- Develop and maintain a roadmap to retire point-to-point interfaces

- Work with the CDO and other leaders to align data architecture with business objectives

**Requirements:**

- 15+ years in data architecture or data engineering, including 5+ years leading architects at enterprise scale

- Depth across lakehouse and warehouse platforms, streaming and CDC, data products and mesh, catalogs and metadata, semantic layers and knowledge graphs

- Experience designing and implementing data product governance, metadata standards, and agent-accessible data architectures

- Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks including BCBS 239, privacy regulation, OSFI E-23 (model risk) and OSFI expectations for data risk

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits

- Competitive compensation and stock options

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Data Architecture
- Data Engineering
- Lakehouse
- Warehouse Platforms
- Streaming
- CDC
- Data Products
- Mesh
- Catalogs
- Metadata
- Semantic Layers
- Knowledge Graphs

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