Remote Lead Data Engineer: Cloud Data Platform Innovator

First Citizens Bank

Raleigh (NC)

Remote

USD 129,000 - 168,000

Full time

3 hours ago

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Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Lead Data Engineer to lead the design, development, and modernization of enterprise data platforms powering analytics and BI. You will mentor engineers, drive best practices, and deliver scalable data solutions using AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Python, and SQL.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders and technology teams to translate requirements into reliable data products, implement data quality and governance, and advance streaming and batch

Qualifications

Requires Bachelor's Degree with 6+ years in data engineering, data warehousing, or cloud platforms.
OR High School Diploma with 10+ years in the same areas.
Strong expertise in AWS, Snowflake, Python, SQL, and dbt.

Responsibilities

Lead design, development, and implementation of enterprise data solutions on AWS and Snowflake.
Build and support data warehouses and ETL/ELT pipelines enabling analytics and reporting.
Design batch and real-time data processing using streaming architectures.
Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.
Define data quality, governance, and testing standards across the data platform.

Skills

AWS

Snowflake

dbt

Python

SQL

Data Warehousing

ETL/ELT

Data Modeling

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Apache Airflow

Astronomer

Kafka

Amazon Kinesis

Snowpipe Streaming

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

You will collaborate with business stakeholders and technology teams to translate requirements into reliable data products, implement data quality and governance, and advance streaming and batch

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