Remote Senior Data Engineer — ELT Pipelines

First Citizens Bank; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud-based data pipelines with Medallion Architecture. You will own ingestion, modeling, and governance tasks while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with Leads.

Role requires hands-on delivery of batch and streaming components, dbt models, Snowflake, and CI/CD deployments in a remote US-friendly environment. Strong collaboration with stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in a relevant field and 4 years of data engineering experience.
• Alternative: 8+ years of data engineering experience with no degree.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data pipelines using Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold).
• Implement batch and CDC-based ingestion pipelines from databases, files, and APIs.
• Support pipeline reliability, scalability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Develop ingestion pipelines using Qlik Replicate for snapshot and CDC patterns.
• Build and extend Python-based pipeline components following established frameworks.
• Develop dbt models using SQL and Jinja templating; test data quality and schema validity.
• Participate in CI/CD deployments of dbt transformations and Snowflake patterns.
• Troubleshoot data pipelines and provide production support.
• Mentor junior data engineers and collaborate with Lead Data Engineers on design decisions.

Skills

Data pipelines

Medallion Architecture

SQL development

Python development

dbt modeling

Snowflake RBAC

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Qlik Replicate

dbt Cloud

Snowpipe

Snowflake

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Splunk

Dynatrace

AWS

Azure

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud-based data pipelines with Medallion Architecture. You will own ingestion, modeling, and governance tasks while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with Leads.

Role requires hands-on delivery of batch and streaming components, dbt models, Snowflake, and CI/CD deployments in a remote US-friendly environment. Strong collaboration with stakeholders is essential.