Cyber Security Engineer III

First Citizens Bank; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced data engineering and security-focused professional to strengthen data pipelines and analytics across on-prem and cloud environments. Remote work is available for NC, AZ, VA, and TX, with a strong emphasis on Python, PySpark, SQL, and data visualization tools.

You will collaborate with business and security teams to design, implement, and govern data products, ensuring robust cybersecurity practices and scalable data architectures.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building data engineering pipelines on on-prem and cloud platforms (Snowflake, AWS).
• 7+ years developing Python-based data applications for ingestion, transformations and visualizations.
• Strong experience with Python, PySpark, SQL and building resilient data pipelines and observability.
• Knowledge of Cybersecurity, IT infrastructure and software concepts.
• 5+ years cloud data engineering with lakes, distributed compute and data processing.
• 3+ years creating data visualizations with Tableau, Plotly, Streamlit, PowerBI.
• Experience with ELT/ETL tools like DBT, DataBahn, Airflow, Cribl, Glue, FiveTran, AirByte.

Responsibilities

• Understand business requirements and system designs, security guidelines and SME inputs.
• Collaborate with business process SMEs to capture functional requirements.
• Streamline sourcing and organizing data from diverse sources to accelerate analysis.
• Support data curation by feeding data catalogs and knowledge bases.
• Create data tools for analytics and data science teams to enable data products.
• Work with data and analytics experts to improve data system functionality.
• Articulate data stories using data science, statistics, and visualizations.
• Manage technical and business documentation for data efforts.
• Engage in hands-on development with onsite and offsite leads and engineers.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data pipelines

Tableau

Plotly

Streamlit

PowerBI

Snowflake

AWS

Airflow

DBT

DataBahn

Cribl

Glue

FiveTran

AirByte

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Airflow

DBT

DataBahn

Cribl

Glue

FiveTran

AirByte

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 https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.