Vice President, Data Quality & Governance

Job Summary

Job Description

• What is the Opportunity?

  RBC Capital Markets is undertaking a green field project to build a new capability to serve corporate clients.

  Your role will be to use your deep knowledge of data, combined with your understanding of client and business needs to create the business context to bring the data governance and data management principles to life for the US Cash Management team and clients alike. You are a thoughtful, proactive, creative, analytical individual with a passion for solving problems for your colleagues and clients through the use of data.

  What will you do?

• Act as the primary contact for all aspects of data quality rules, design, implementation, testing, reporting, and data quality issue management.
• Defining the data quality control requirements using the lineage of Critical Data Elements (CDE’s) from originating source to point of consumption.
• Understand any transformation / data filtering that may be performed during the flow of CDE data from source to point of consumption, and the rationale for same.  This can include the need to understand the completeness and accuracy controls associated with the data lineage flow.
• Manage the data quality risks and control effectively and recommend any new or enhanced controls consistent with stakeholder requirements.
• Develop trusting relationships with our partners and stakeholders to ensure our deliverables align with the current and future needs of our businesses and prioritized accordingly.
• Identify options to optimize the process of lineage capture and documentation.
• Advise system owners and business process owners of applications on best practices for maintaining a business glossary, metadata, and lineage.
• Advocate for improved metadata and lineage management and educate system and business process owners on their data related responsibilities.

• What do you need to succeed?

  Must-have

• 7+ years experience supporting a data initiative
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology or related field
• Strong understanding of data governance principles, the data lifecycle from collection through storage and usage, as well as metadata and lineage management concepts and practices
• Deep knowledge of data governance and data management concepts such as critical data elements, data lineage, data accuracy and completeness and data controls
• Understanding of technical data concepts such as data ingestion, data warehouse, data lakes, master reference data, data models, systems of record, aggregation layer and reporting systems
• Experience with using Jira and Confluence
• Excellent business communication skills (written and oral). 
• Ability to work independently and possess strong analytical and data problem-solving skills

• 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.

• Positive work culture emphasizing diversity and inclusion, volunteerism and community involvement
• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including great benefits, annual incentive program and recognition
• Leaders who support your development
• A dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team
• Opportunities to do challenging work and grow your career
• Work-life integration

Job Skills

Critical Thinking, Data Administration, Database Structures, Data Governance, Data Mining, Data Modeling, Detail-Oriented, Information Security Management, Quality Management, Quantitative Research

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

TORONTO

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

Capital Markets

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2024-02-05

Application Deadline:

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