Senior Associate, Data Services

Job Summary

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Data Services is responsible for ensuring Capital Markets data is complete, accurate, and fit for purpose to meet business and regulatory needs. As a Senior Associate, you will be responsible for data quality insights. You will act as a key contributor to the execution of critical components of our first-line data strategy and will take ownership of initiatives that span cross-functional teams.
This role requires advanced data analysis skills, the ability to lead conversations and influence outcomes with senior stakeholders, a strong understanding of business-critical and regulatory data needs, and the ability to identify and deliver innovative solutions to solve high-priority data challenges. You will work closely with regulatory teams, Capital Markets desks, and key business stakeholders.
As a member of a dynamic, fast-paced team, you will require exceptional problem-solving skills, leadership acumen, and organizational prowess. A proactive approach with demonstrated ability to set priorities and manage competing demands is critical.

What will you do?

Centralized Data Quality:

• Serve as the central point of contact for managing data quality observations, ensuring a streamlined and organized approach to resolution.
• Conduct thorough root cause analysis to pinpoint underlying scenarios in data flows, processes, or systems.

Data Profiling:

• Perform data profiling activities to evaluate the structure, completeness, and consistency of datasets across multiple domains.
• Identify patterns, trends, and anomalies within datasets to assess their suitability for business and operational needs.
• Leverage insights from profiling exercises to enhance data quality, optimize processes, and support root cause analysis and solution design efforts.

Root Cause Analysis and Insights:

• Analyze commonalities and connections across multiple data quality observations spanning various projects and domains to identify recurring patterns, systemic gaps, or root causes.
• Leverage insights to eliminate duplication of efforts, improve the efficiency of remediation, and develop proactive strategies.
• Develop centralized knowledge repositories or frameworks that improve the team's visibility into historical observations and resolutions, enabling continuous learning.

Solution Design and Implementation:

• Design appropriate and scalable solutions that align with RBC's data strategy and long-term objectives, ensuring solutions meet both business and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitate the implementation of solutions by collaborating effectively with stakeholders, technical teams, and relevant business units to ensure timely resolution.
• Monitor and refine solutions to ensure sustained effectiveness over time.

Strategic Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:

• Collaborate with team members, business users, and senior leaders to provide transparency, progress, and remediation outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders by clearly communicating findings, actionable recommendations, and strategic insights.
• Deliver professional presentations, including well-structured PowerPoint decks, to communicate complex scenarios and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Data Governance and Continuous Improvement:

• Ensure that solutions align with the company's data governance framework, driving adherence to data quality standards and best practices.
• Actively contribute to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of data quality monitoring and resolution processes while assisting in the development of enhancements to existing tools, controls, and workflows.
• Drive a culture of excellence by advocating for a proactive approach to identifying and addressing data issues.

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have

• Expertise in root cause analysis, with demonstrable experience designing and implementing targeted solutions that align with enterprise data strategies.
• Proven ability to identify common patterns, connections, and shared root causes across a range of data issues to improve the efficiency of remediation processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven track record of managing complex data challenges across multiple domains or projects.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and gain buy-in from multidisciplinary teams, including senior leaders and technical teams.
• Proficiency in creating professional PowerPoint decks and visually compelling analytics reports to convey findings and outcomes effectively.
• Excellent data analysis skills, including strong experience with SQL and Python to generate custom queries and analysis, and leveraging Excel to link disparate data sets and trend data.
• A strong understanding of data governance principles, data quality frameworks, and enterprise data management.
• A collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset, with a proactive approach to addressing and preventing data issues across the organization.

• Post-secondary education in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, Math or a related field or 7+ years of experience in the financial services industry (or equivalent).

Nice to Have:

• Experience with various Capital Market products and trading products lifecycle.
• Experience writing executable Data Quality rules and/or working with a portfolio of production Data Quality controls across multiple source applications and stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of data lifecycles, including focus on data governance and knowledge of Data Quality classification.
• Experience working with Python and leveraging python for the analysis of disparate data sets.
• Knowledge of IBM Information Analyzer/Stewardship Centre, metadata management, and/or Collibra to build and manage Data Quality rules and reporting.
• Experience with data science methodologies, including machine learning and advanced pattern recognition.
• Knowledge of global markets business processes and/or experience working with Market/Reference data.

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.

• Interaction with a wide variety of departments within Capital Markets
• The opportunity to work on projects relating to bank wide data initiatives.
• Work collaboratively with business partners, IT and Data Management in order to deliver new capabilities effectively.
• Stay close to industry best practices in account, client data and KYC management.
• Apply interpersonal and influencing skills to develop strong relationships with the Data Management team, Data Management IT, stakeholders across RBC CM, and individuals participating in the various data project streams.
• Communicate effectively with RBC CM professionals at varying levels of seniority, including applying insight to determine the business impact of data issues that may arise in the availability, integrity or completeness of data which can be supported through better governance.

Job Skills
Critical Thinking, Data Administration, Database Structures, Data Modeling, Data Movement, Detail-Oriented, Group Problem Solving, Information Capture, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Teamwork

Additional Job Details

Address:

90 WESTERN PKY:BEDFORD

City:

BEDFORD

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

CAPITAL MARKETS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2025-04-10

Application Deadline:

2025-04-24
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

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