Remote Lead Data Engineer – ELT & Data Platform Architect

First Citizens Bank; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade data platforms. You will own end-to-end pipelines, mentor engineers, and set standards across the data platform.

The role requires hands-on experience with ELT architectures, Snowflake, dbt, Python, and cloud services (AWS/Azure). This is a remote role with US-wide hiring flexibility, focused in NC, AZ, and TX.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or 10+ years of equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of advanced data engineering with cloud platforms.
• Strong experience building and operating production data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Data Pipeline ownership across Bronze-Silver-Gold.
• Ingestion, transformation, governance, testing and publishing layers.
• Develop dbt models with SQL and Jinja templating; automate quality tests.
• Snowflake platform engineering including Snowpipe and RBAC controls.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers; enforce engineering standards.

Skills

Python

Snowflake

dbt

AWS

ETL

Data pipelines

CI/CD

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma + 10 years exp

Tools

Qlik Replicate

dbt Cloud

Snowflake

AWS Services

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade data platforms. You will own end-to-end pipelines, mentor engineers, and set standards across the data platform.

The role requires hands-on experience with ELT architectures, Snowflake, dbt, Python, and cloud services (AWS/Azure). This is a remote role with US-wide hiring flexibility, focused in NC, AZ, and TX.