Description
Manager Data Strategy manages all aspects of Data Strategy to enable Wealth Management Canada (WMC) with key data and insights to provide high-quality, differentiated services for clients that ultimately drive commercial outcomes for the business.
The successful candidate will support the development and execution of a comprehensive data strategy aligned with WMC and RBC's broader objectives, including migration of raw source data from source of record applications, transformation of data to reusable, domain-specific assets, and management of data products.
The successful candidate will be at the core of our broader enterprise-level AI and Digital Transformation (ADT) program to deliver AI-powered advisor-facing tools by leading data ingestion management, coordinating with business stakeholders, and providing advice to data engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Support Sr Manager Data Strategy with managing strong relationships with key stakeholders across Wealth Management Canada and RBC, fostering collaboration and alignment to a shared vision.
- Engage closely with stakeholders to get feedback and deliver centralized and documented WMC data catalog with clearly defined business fields and logic.
- Collaborate with DMO to ensure data is protected, managed, governed, and aligned to Wealth Management Canada and Wealth Management Global Data Strategy and enterprise data best practices.
- Reduce data duplication and fragmentation by consolidating multiple sources into unified data domains.
- Help drive the design and maintenance of data domains and products that meet business needs for AI and operational use cases.
- Collaborate with Business System Analysts, Data Engineers, Data Architects to drive data mapping, data modeling, database design, while maintaining data fields and data products on Snowflake accurate, consistent, and aligned to business expectations.
- Work with business stakeholders to create a consistent data dictionary, ensuring data quality and integrity across the organization.
- Provide senior leadership, direction, and methodology for analysis, structure, and storage of critical organizational data.
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of business requirements and data needs, using this knowledge to inform data product development.
- Monitor and align with major organizational transformation programs and projects to ensure important data needs are anticipated and met.
- Oversee the integrity and maintenance of WMC data.
- Review and align with policies and procedures for collecting and managing organization data by RBC's Data Management Office (DMO).
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience with Snowflake
- 5+ years of data analysis and data modeling experience, including SQL knowledge and ability to translate operational system data into clear business data domains and data products
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.
- Strong collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally, driving alignment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, and data management lifecycle.
Nice-to-have:
- Previous work experience in the Banking industry, preferably in Wealth Management