Sr. Delivery Manager Data Solutions

What is the opportunity?

A key leadership role in application development within Wealth Management Technology, Data Services Canada. The role will be responsible for proving expertise and oversight in building and maintaining highly efficient next generation Data Management & Services solutions portfolio.

What will you do?

You will be required to collaborate with multiple project/program stakeholders, including the Business Units, Solution Architects, Business Systems Analysts, Development teams, Quality Assurance, IT infrastructure teams and third-party vendors.

• Conduit to front facing business/other stakeholders to understand their data needs across all capabilities/initiatives for planning and prioritization

• Provide thought leadership and be responsible for delivering highly efficient Data and Services solutions through multiple projects

• Provide Technical Direction, Anticipate/Obtain Resolution of issues & implement Solutions for the integration of DMI projects into Wealth Management's & RBC's infrastructure environment

• Responsible for timely coordination of the end-to-end data Intake Process, that includes proposals, funding approvals and delivery

• Support functions across various groups including program/project managers, architects, development and production support teams

• Accountable for regular reporting of the Data portfolio, including status(budget, progress), alignment to overall strategy and overall capability reporting

• Resolves complex issues and conflicts (including architectural direction vs project constraints); escalates to executive level where required

• Provide leadership and oversight to technical team

The ideal candidate will have a sharp business mind, understand user needs and align them with the products that are being created. Ultimately, you are motivated by the desire to optimize productivity and nurture program success from inception to completion.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• Proven leader and experienced in managing mid-sized technical team over 5 years, including vendors, and brings strong communication & presentation skills

• Recent experience of 7+ years in delivering data solutions utilizing IBM DataStage (11.X), enterprise grade RDBMS (SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle)

• Expert level knowledge of advanced concepts of ETL processing and of using DataStage, including its integration with other technologies like API calls and databases.

• Recent experience in query profiling, query optimization, performance monitoring, tuning on in-memory DB and relational database. Hands-on experience with data modelling including logical and physical database design

• Proven relationship builder within a cross functional matrix organization, with a track record of establishing strong working relationships with leaders, team members and vendors.

• Strong planning, estimating, budget management, reporting, team planning and coordination experience, including vendor engagement management

• Thrives in a fast-paced Agile environment, ability to prioritize, work under pressure and meet time sensitive deadlines, while incorporating development management process best practices like Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins, UCD), Configuration Management platforms (Ansible, Puppet) and work management tool like Jira

Nice to have:

• Highly proficient hands-on recent experience of 3+ years in delivering Java based solutions utilizing API based solutions deployed on OpenShift/Azzure, and streaming solutions using Kafka.

• Working knowledge of implementing monitoring and dashboard solutions leveraging ELK

• Prior experience working with distributed in-memory DB (MemSQL, Maria DB)

• Strong understanding of Data warehousing concepts, dimensional Star Schema and Snowflakes Schema methodology

• Strong technical knowledge of database architecture, distributed data storage and management principles, with experience using related technologies

• Familiarity with any Cloud Technologies (Openshift, Azzure)

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

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

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