Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain the Python-based Snowflake Control Plane.
- Enable Snowflake features with governance controls, access policies, compliance guardrails, and secure AI capabilities.
- Implement OAuth/SSO, JWT validation, RBAC, secret management, credential lifecycle automation, rate limiting, input sanitization, and security headers.
- Build self-service onboarding, resource-provisioning, and platform-management workflows.
- Operate and improve CI/CD pipelines with progressive deployment, security scanning, and code-quality gates.
- Contribute to platform observability, monitoring, documentation, and enterprise security compliance.
- Lead architectural decisions, present technical trade-offs, mentor junior engineers and co-op students, and participate in agile ceremonies.
Requirements
- Expert proficiency in Python 3.11+, FastAPI, Pydantic v2, async/await, and production-grade API development.
- Strong Snowflake knowledge including architecture, roles, databases, schemas, warehouses, stages, storage integrations, failover groups, replication, AI Suite, OAuth, key-pair authentication, and network policies.
- Hands-on AWS and Azure experience covering IAM, networking, storage, secret management, and multi-cloud delivery.
- Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT validation, RBAC, secret management, and enterprise security patterns.
- Understanding of responsible AI, model risk management, AI auditing, OSFI requirements, and NIST AI RMF.
- Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools, Docker, OpenShift/Kubernetes, progressive delivery, SAST, SCA, and DAST.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 7 years of experience in platform engineering, data engineering, cloud engineering, or SRE roles.
- At least 3 years working with Snowflake or comparable enterprise data platforms at scale.
- Experience in regulated environments and demonstrated ability to drive architecture, influence stakeholders, communicate effectively, and deliver complex initiatives.
- Preferred qualifications include Snowflake Cortex AI, SnowPro certifications, workflow orchestration, observability platforms, infrastructure as code, API design, financial-services regulation, and LLM/GenAI security experience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive total rewards program including bonuses and flexible benefits.
- Competitive compensation, commissions, and stock options where applicable.
- Coaching and development opportunities from supportive leaders.
- Opportunity to make a lasting local-to-global impact.
- Full-time regular salaried employment, based in Toronto, Canada, with 37.5 work hours per week.
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About RBC
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