Data Engineer II

First Citizens Bank; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Data Engineer for a remote role that may hire in North Carolina, Texas, Arizona, and Florida. You will design, build, and maintain data pipelines, warehouses, and governance programs to support data-driven initiatives.

The role emphasizes real-time and batch processing, security controls, and collaboration with data scientists and analysts. Strong cloud, Python, and Snowflake experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 2 years data engineering experience, or 6 years with HS diploma.
• Experience with data technologies and cloud platforms required.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines for real-time and batch processing.
• Build and optimize data warehouse structures and data models.
• Implement data governance, quality, and compliance programs.
• Apply data security measures and access controls (RBAC).
• Analyze and optimize performance for large-scale data operations.
• Write unit tests and promote automated pipelines using CI/CD tools.
• Manage code deployment across environments including production and DR.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other teams on data needs.

Skills

Medallion architecture

Python

dbt Cloud

Snowflake

RBAC & data masking

AWS/Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Regulated environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

2+ years in Data engineering

Tools

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Snowflake

dbt Cloud

Python

AWS

Azure

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

Overview

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): North Carolina, Texas, Arizona & Florida.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Data Pipelines - Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines for efficient data processing and integration for real-time and batch-processing. Implement and optimize ETL processes to extract, load, transform and integrate data from various sources. Enhance data flows and storage solutions for improved performance
• Data Warehousing - Design and implement data warehouse structures. Ensure data quality and consistency within the data warehouse. Apply data modeling techniques for efficient data storage and retrieval
• Data Governance, Quality & Compliance - Implement data governance policies and procedures. Implement data quality frameworks, standards and documentation. Ensure compliance with relevant data regulations and standards
• Security & Access Management - Implement data security measures and access controls. Maintain data protection protocols
• Performance Optimization and Troubleshooting - Analyze and optimize system performance for large-scale data operations. Troubleshoot data issues and implement robust solutions
• Testing & Automation -- Write unit test cases, validate the data integrity & consistency requirements, adopt automated data pipelines using GitLab, Github, CICD tools.
• Code Deployment & Release Management - Adopt release management processes to promote code deployment to various environments including production, disaster recovery, and support activities.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other teams to understand and meet data requirements. Participate in cross-functional projects to support data-driven initiatives

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree and 2 years of experience in Data engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms

OR

High School Diploma or GED and 6 years of experience in Data engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms

Preferred Qualifications

Qualified candidates will have proven, hands‑on production experience with most of the following:

• Building data pipelines using Medallion Architecture patterns
• Data ingestion using Qlik Replicate (snapshot, CDC, batch)
• Python development for data pipeline components
• dbt Cloud transformations, testing, and SQL development
• Snowflake ingestion and processing (Snowpipe, Tasks, Stored Procedures)
• RBAC and data masking concepts in Snowflake
• Cloud-native development on AWS or equivalent Azure platforms
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk or Dynatrace
• Experience in regulated or governance‑heavy environments
• Relevant cloud or data platform certifications

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.