Cyber Security Engineer III

First Citizens Bank; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

First Citizens Bank seeks a seasoned data engineering/security professional to safeguard digital assets and build scalable data pipelines. This remote role is open to U.S. candidates, with collaboration across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will design and optimize data flows using Python, PySpark, SQL, Snowflake and AWS, contribute to data governance, and support data science initiatives. Strong communication and security mindset required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with 6+ years in data engineering, security or related fields.
• Alternative: HS diploma/GED with 10+ years of relevant experience in data systems.

Responsibilities

• Understand business requirements and security guidelines; collaborate with SMEs on processes.
• Streamline data sourcing and preparation from diverse sources using Python, PySpark, SQL and Spark.
• Develop data tools for analytics and data science teams to build and optimize data products.
• Document data efforts and clearly articulate data stories to stakeholders.
• Engage with onsite and offsite leads and engineers on data projects.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data engineering

Data visualization

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related field

High School Diploma or GED with 10 years experience

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Airflow

DBT

DataBahn

Job description

Overview

This role can be hired remotely in NC, AZ, VA and TX. This position ensures the technological and digital security of the Bank at a high level of ability and technical expertise. Mitigates exposure to cyber threats, security risks, and unauthorized access. Assesses organizational networks, applications, or systems for potential vulnerabilities. Protects assets and information through a variety of methods, resolving security issues or incidents as they arise. Maintains a strong knowledge of industry practices, technology, and evolving threats in order to enhance defenses for the Bank’s information systems and resources. May oversee less experienced associates in the work group.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Duties & Responsibilities: Understand business requirements and existing system designs, security applications and guidelines, etc. Work with various SME’s in understanding business process flows, functional requirements specifications of existing system, their current challenges and constraints and future expectation. Streamline the process of sourcing, organizing data (from a wide variety of data sources using Python, PySpark, SQL, Spark) and accelerating data for analysis. Support the data curation process by feeding the data catalog and knowledge bases. Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing the data products for consumption. Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in the data systems. Clearly articulate data stories using data science, advanced statistical analysis, visualization tools, written and oral communication. Manage technical, analytical, and business documentation on all data efforts. Engage in hands on development and work with both onsite and offsite leads and engineers.

Minimum Required Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree and 6 years' experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 10 years' experience in Systems Engineering, Network, or Information Security

Preferred Qualifications

7+ years of experience in building data engineering pipelines on both on-premise and cloud platforms (Snowflake, AWS) 7+ years of experience in developing Python based data-applications to support data ingestion, transformation, data visualizations (plotly, streamlit) Strong experience programming/scripting in Python , PySpark, SQL and building resilient data pipelines, automations and observability Knowledge of Cybersecurity, IT infrastructure and Software concepts. 5+ years of hands on experience using cloud data engineering, lakes, distributed compute and data processing 3+ years of developing data visualizations using Tableau, Plotly, Streamlit, PowerBI Experience with ELT/ETL tools like DBT, DataBahn, Airflow, Cribl, Glue, FiveTran, AirByte, etc. Experience on capturing incremental data changes, streaming data ingestion and stream processing. Experience in processes supporting data governance, data structures, metadata management. Solid grasp of data and analytics concepts and methodologies including data science, data engineering, and data story-telling

Additional Information

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at benefits.