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What is the opportunity?
In this role as a Lead Data Scientist you will analyze, design and implement data science / machine learning solutions using RBC’s enterprise suite of analytics tools. USWM Applied AI group specializes in taking full advantage of large data sets to explore and discover new insights that would have not been possible with traditional analytics. Leveraging leading edge technologies and capabilities, the group applies machine learning and statistical modelling techniques to help RBC understand the changing business environment, discover new growth opportunities and determine where business improvements can be made.
This is a senior individual contributor role on a greenfield Applied AI squad. You will own the full data science lifecycle — from problem framing and exploratory analysis through model development, evaluation, and production performance. You'll work alongside AI engineers and MLOps to bring models and data-driven features into real financial services workflows. This isn't a notebook-and-dashboard role: you write production Python, collaborate closely with engineering, and take clear ownership of model quality and business outcomes. Financial domain knowledge, statistical rigor, and the ability to translate ambiguous business questions into solvable ML problems are equally important as technical depth.
What will you do?
- Collaborate with key business partners and stakeholders to understand business objectives/opportunities and problem statements in order to provide solutions that align to business needs that are actionable with a tangible outcome
- Frame ambiguous business problems into well-defined ML and AI problem statements with measurable success criteria.
- Own end-to-end model development — feature engineering, training, evaluation, and production handoff.
- Build and evaluate LLM-augmented workflows — combining classical ML signals with generative AI where appropriate
- Prepare and transform data (structured/non-structured)
- Design and maintain offline and online evaluation frameworks — ensuring model quality before and after deployment
- Prepare, integrate large and varied datasets and implement statistical and ML models using Python and R.
- Leverage visualization tools/packages to story-tell and to convey data-driven insights with actionable recommendations to key stakeholders
- Quickly learn new methods, tools and technologies presented in research communities to implement, adapt and innovate
- Effectively communicate findings to business partners and executives.
- Developing predictive data models, quantitative analyses and visualization of targeted, big data sources.
- Lead and mentor junior Data Scientists throughout the ML lifecycle.
- Monitor production models for drift and performance. Build dashboards and communicate insights.
- Document experiments and support AI governance. Present findings to technical and business stakeholders.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Master’s in computer science or PHD in Computer Science with Specialization in Data Science, Mathematics & Statistics.
- 10+ years total IT experience with 3+ years building and deploying ML models in production environments — not just notebooks
- Experience with model evaluation rigor — holdout sets, cross-validation, leakage prevention, business metric alignment
- Practical understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations — knows when to use generative AI vs. classical ML vs. deterministic rules
- Experience building or evaluating RAG pipelines or LLM-augmented analytics workflows — even if not the primary architect
- Comfortable working within an enterprise LLM gateway environment — model routing, cost awareness, token management
- Worked in a regulated or compliance-sensitive environment — model documentation, auditability, and explainability requirements
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, time management and organizational skills.
- Can distinguish when a problem needs ML vs. a simpler rule-based approach — avoids over-engineering
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation frameworks — RAGAS, DeepEval, LLM-as-judge, or equivalent golden dataset approaches.
- Understands hallucination risks and validation strategies for LLM outputs used in business-critical decisions.
- Comfortable working within an enterprise LLM gateway environment — model routing, cost awareness, token management.
- Experience in programming, scripting languages and data visualization.
Nice to have:
- Financial services domain — wealth management, portfolio analytics, risk scoring, client segmentation, or fraud detection experience.
- Experience with NLP pipelines for financial document understanding, summarization, or entity extraction.
- Familiarity with A/B testing and causal inference for evaluating model interventions in production.
- Databricks or Snowflake ML for large-scale feature computation and model training
- Exposure to graph-based analytics or network analysis for relationship modeling
- MLflow, Weights & Biases, or equivalent for experiment tracking and model registry
- Familiar with a Linux environment and shell scripting.
- Familiar with data extract, transform, and load processes with a variety of data types.
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 include competitive compensation and flexible benefits, such as 401(k) program with company-matching contributions, health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and paid-time off.
- 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 build close relationships with clients.
The expected salary range for this particular position is $100,000 - $170,000, depending on your experience, skills, and registration status, market conditions and business needs.
You have the potential to earn more through RBC’s discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided the business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.
RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:
- Drives RBC’s high-performance culture
- Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals
- Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value
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Job Skills
Actuarial Modeling, Big Data Management, Commercial Acumen, Data Mining, Data Science, Decision Making, Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Predictive Analytics, Python (Programming Language)
Additional Job Details
Address: 250 NICOLLET MALL:MINNEAPOLIS
City: Minneapolis
Country: United States of America
Work hours/week: 40
Employment Type: Full time
Platform: WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Job Type: Regular
Pay Type: Salaried
Posted Date: 2026-08-07
Application Deadline: 2026-08-28
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
Our Employment Opportunities
At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
Join our Talent Community
Stay in-the-know about great career opportunities at RBC. Sign up and get customized info on our latest jobs, career tips and Recruitment events that matter to you.
Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.
RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
In this role as a Lead Data Scientist you will analyze, design and implement data science / machine learning solutions using RBC’s enterprise suite of analytics tools. USWM Applied AI group specializes in taking full advantage of large data sets to explore and discover new insights that would have not been possible with traditional analytics. Leveraging leading edge technologies and capabilities, the group applies machine learning and statistical modelling techniques to help RBC understand the changing business environment, discover new growth opportunities and determine where business improvements can be made.
This is a senior individual contributor role on a greenfield Applied AI squad. You will own the full data science lifecycle — from problem framing and exploratory analysis through model development, evaluation, and production performance. You'll work alongside AI engineers and MLOps to bring models and data-driven features into real financial services workflows. This isn't a notebook-and-dashboard role: you write production Python, collaborate closely with engineering, and take clear ownership of model quality and business outcomes. Financial domain knowledge, statistical rigor, and the ability to translate ambiguous business questions into solvable ML problems are equally important as technical depth.
What will you do?
- Collaborate with key business partners and stakeholders to understand business objectives/opportunities and problem statements in order to provide solutions that align to business needs that are actionable with a tangible outcome
- Frame ambiguous business problems into well-defined ML and AI problem statements with measurable success criteria.
- Own end-to-end model development — feature engineering, training, evaluation, and production handoff.
- Build and evaluate LLM-augmented workflows — combining classical ML signals with generative AI where appropriate
- Prepare and transform data (structured/non-structured)
- Design and maintain offline and online evaluation frameworks — ensuring model quality before and after deployment
- Prepare, integrate large and varied datasets and implement statistical and ML models using Python and R.
- Leverage visualization tools/packages to story-tell and to convey data-driven insights with actionable recommendations to key stakeholders
- Quickly learn new methods, tools and technologies presented in research communities to implement, adapt and innovate
- Effectively communicate findings to business partners and executives.
- Developing predictive data models, quantitative analyses and visualization of targeted, big data sources.
- Lead and mentor junior Data Scientists throughout the ML lifecycle.
- Monitor production models for drift and performance. Build dashboards and communicate insights.
- Document experiments and support AI governance. Present findings to technical and business stakeholders.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Master’s in computer science or PHD in Computer Science with Specialization in Data Science, Mathematics & Statistics.
- 10+ years total IT experience with 3+ years building and deploying ML models in production environments — not just notebooks
- Experience with model evaluation rigor — holdout sets, cross-validation, leakage prevention, business metric alignment
- Practical understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations — knows when to use generative AI vs. classical ML vs. deterministic rules
- Experience building or evaluating RAG pipelines or LLM-augmented analytics workflows — even if not the primary architect
- Comfortable working within an enterprise LLM gateway environment — model routing, cost awareness, token management
- Worked in a regulated or compliance-sensitive environment — model documentation, auditability, and explainability requirements
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, time management and organizational skills.
- Can distinguish when a problem needs ML vs. a simpler rule-based approach — avoids over-engineering
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation frameworks — RAGAS, DeepEval, LLM-as-judge, or equivalent golden dataset approaches.
- Understands hallucination risks and validation strategies for LLM outputs used in business-critical decisions.
- Comfortable working within an enterprise LLM gateway environment — model routing, cost awareness, token management.
- Experience in programming, scripting languages and data visualization.
Nice to have:
- Financial services domain — wealth management, portfolio analytics, risk scoring, client segmentation, or fraud detection experience.
- Experience with NLP pipelines for financial document understanding, summarization, or entity extraction.
- Familiarity with A/B testing and causal inference for evaluating model interventions in production.
- Databricks or Snowflake ML for large-scale feature computation and model training
- Exposure to graph-based analytics or network analysis for relationship modeling
- MLflow, Weights & Biases, or equivalent for experiment tracking and model registry
- Familiar with a Linux environment and shell scripting.
- Familiar with data extract, transform, and load processes with a variety of data types.
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 include competitive compensation and flexible benefits, such as 401(k) program with company-matching contributions, health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and paid-time off.
- 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 build close relationships with clients.
The expected salary range for this particular position is $100,000 - $170,000, depending on your experience, skills, and registration status, market conditions and business needs.
You have the potential to earn more through RBC’s discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided the business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.
RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:
- Drives RBC’s high-performance culture
- Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals
- Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value
LI-POST
TECHPJ
Job Skills
Actuarial Modeling, Big Data Management, Commercial Acumen, Data Mining, Data Science, Decision Making, Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Predictive Analytics, Python (Programming Language)
Additional Job Details
Address: 250 NICOLLET MALL:MINNEAPOLIS
City: Minneapolis
Country: United States of America
Work hours/week: 40
Employment Type: Full time
Platform: WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Job Type: Regular
Pay Type: Salaried
Posted Date: 2026-08-07
Application Deadline: 2026-08-28
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
Our Employment Opportunities
At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
Join our Talent Community
Stay in-the-know about great career opportunities at RBC. Sign up and get customized info on our latest jobs, career tips and Recruitment events that matter to you.
Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.
RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Data Engineer
Verify your role meets specialty occupation
The H-1B1 visa requires your Data Engineer position to demand at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. Cross-check your job description against the O*NET profile for Data Engineers to confirm the role's educational requirements before approaching any employer.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search DOL Labor Condition Application disclosure data to identify companies that have filed LCAs for Data Engineer roles. Employers already familiar with the LCA process are far less likely to stall your offer over H-1B1 visa paperwork.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for H-1B1 sponsors
Search for Data Engineer roles on Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers verified to have H-1B1 Singapore sponsorship history. That filters out companies whose offers will collapse once they learn no lottery is needed but an LCA still is.
Benchmark your offer against OFLC prevailing wages
Your employer must certify your salary meets the DOL prevailing wage for Data Engineers in the specific metro area. Run the OFLC Wage Search before your negotiation so you know the floor and can flag any offer that falls below it.
Clarify the LCA timeline with your employer early
The Labor Condition Application must be certified by DOL before your consulate appointment can proceed. Ask your employer who handles their LCA filings and confirm they can submit within two weeks of signing your offer letter.
Prepare a credential evaluation for three-year degrees
Singaporean polytechnic diplomas or three-year bachelor's degrees can raise consular questions about equivalency to a U.S. four-year degree. A foreign credential evaluation from a recognized agency documents the equivalency and prevents administrative processing delays at your interview.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do Data Engineer roles qualify as a specialty occupation for the H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes. Data Engineer positions require a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information systems, or a closely related field, satisfying the H-1B1 visa specialty occupation definition. Your employer must document this requirement in the Labor Condition Application. If your job description allows a degree in any field, the role may not qualify, so the LCA language matters.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa differ from H-1B for Data Engineers?
The H-1B1 visa has no lottery and is filed directly at the U.S. consulate rather than through USCIS, which means no USCIS petition fee and no random selection. The 5,400 annual cap has never been reached. The trade-off is that H-1B1 doesn't confer dual intent, so maintaining clear nonimmigrant intent is important throughout your employment.
What documents should a Singaporean Data Engineer bring to the H-1B1 consulate interview?
Bring your certified Labor Condition Application, a signed offer letter specifying your title and salary, your degree certificates with transcripts, and your DS-160 confirmation. If your degree is from a Singaporean institution with a three-year structure, include a foreign credential evaluation. The consular officer will verify that your qualifications match the specialty occupation claimed in the LCA.
How do I find employers actively sponsoring H-1B1 Singapore visas for Data Engineers?
Migrate Mate lets you search Data Engineer roles filtered by employers with documented H-1B1 Singapore sponsorship history, which removes the guesswork of cold-applying to companies unfamiliar with the visa. You can also review DOL Labor Condition Application disclosure data to see which companies have filed for Data Engineer positions and the metro areas where they hire.
Can my employer sponsor me for H-1B1 if they have never done it before?
Yes. The H-1B1 visa process is simpler than the H-1B visa because there is no USCIS petition. Your employer files a Labor Condition Application with DOL and you attend a consulate interview. Many employers who have never sponsored a Singaporean national can complete the LCA with standard immigration counsel. The absence of a lottery or USCIS adjudication often makes first-time sponsors more willing to proceed.