2027 Global Asset Management, Winter Developer & IT Specialist (4-8 months)
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
We are seeking a Developer & IT Specialist (Quant Developer, Software Developer, DevOps Engineer and QA Automation Analyst) to join the RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM). If you are passionate to learn about software development & delivery practices, please read on.
We have four streams for the coop program:
Quant Developer
- Design and develop horizontally scalable Python-based solutions in RBC’s private cloud, leveraging tools like Dask, Airflow, and JupyterHub.
- Build robust data pipelines and services to process and analyze large-scale time series data, ensuring low-latency performance and reliability.
- Create interactive dashboards and APIs to visualize complex financial data, supporting research and portfolio management workflows.
- Collaborate with quant researchers, portfolio managers, and engineers to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Optimize system architecture for cloud deployment, focusing on resilience, security, and cost efficiency.
- Contribute to the full development lifecycle, from prototyping in Jupyter notebooks to production deployment and monitoring.
- Stay ahead of industry trends in quantitative finance and cloud-native technologies to drive continuous innovation.
Software Developer
- Participate in all parts of software development lifecycle – design, implementation, and rollout of production systems
- Create and review technical design documents, understand how the design will be used in the code development process, and facilitate meetings to design, troubleshoot, and enhancements development
- Analyze trade related business requirements and translate them to technical specifications
- Estimate activities/tasks required to perform design, coding, and unit testing
- Support Applications and respond to inquires and incidents reported by the business and users, especially during the time when offshore team is not available (Canadian business hours)
- Investigate bugs, track them in JIRA and fix bugs.
- Start developing larger features for projects by working with Senior Engineers
DevOps Engineer
- Designing, modifying, developing, writing and implementing software programming applications for target system using agile methods.
- Acquiring client requirements; resolving workflow problems through automation optimization.
- Writing source codes for new applications, and/or generating and enhancing code samples for existing applications.
- Utilizing automated testing tools to perform the testing and maintenance.
QA Automation Analyst
- Work closely with project team members in a highly collaborative environment.
- Analyze requirements, create test strategy, prepare test documentation and execute test
- Design and develop and automated test scripts
- Interpret and report test results
- Use automation tools to automate and execute test cases
What do you need to succeed?
Technical skills:
Must-have:
- Have a strong quantitative background, a degree in math/statistics/computer science/engineering would be a plus
- Strong programming knowledge of one or more of the following languages: Python, C# , HTML, CSS, React JS/ Angular, TypeScript
- Proficiency with SQL Server, Relational Databases
- Basic understanding of development methodologies, best practices, and a general understanding of application architectures.
- Java 8+ and Spring Framework (Spring Boot)
- Experience with Web technologies such as HTML, HTTP, Java script and CSS
- Experience working with DevOps pipelines (Git, Maven, Jenkins), continuous integration/delivery, automated testing (unit, functional, performance)
- Experience working within professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source code management, build processes and testing.
Nice to have:
- Understanding of Web FE development frameworks and libraries such as Angular and React
Soft skills:
- Great communication skills. Team player with the ability to work with a diverse group and offshore team
- Basic understanding of development methodologies, best practices, and a general understanding of application architectures.
- Must be a self-starter, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functional areas
- Excellent interpersonal and highly developed communication skills (verbal and written)
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