Remote Senior Data Engineer - Pipelines & Platform

First Citizens Bank; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and operate modern data pipelines in a cloud-based data platform. This remote role may be filled in North Carolina, Arizona, or Texas and requires hands-on delivery of complex pipeline components.

You will mentor junior engineers, partner with Leads on architectural decisions, and focus on reliability, performance, and cost optimization while growing toward platform ownership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Data engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms
• OR
• High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Data engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms
• Hands-on production experience with data pipelines, cloud platforms, and governance practices

Responsibilities

• Design and build data pipelines using Medallion Architecture patterns (Bronze, Silver, Gold)
• Develop and support ingestion pipelines using Qlik Replicate for snapshot and CDC patterns
• Develop dbt models using SQL and Jinja templating; implement automated data quality tests
• Deploy with CI/CD for dbt transformations and manage Snowflake ingestion using Snowpipe/Tasks
• Develop and operate data workloads on AWS (S3, Lambda, ECS Fargate, Glue, IAM) or Azure equivalents
• Mentor junior data engineers and collaborate with Lead Data Engineers on design decisions

Skills

Data pipelines

Cloud data platform

dbt modeling

Python development

Snowflake

CI/CD pipelines

ETL/ELT

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Data engineering or related field

4+ years data engineering experience

Tools

Qlik Replicate

dbt Cloud

Snowpipe

Snowflake

AWS or Azure

GitLab / GitHub Actions

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and operate modern data pipelines in a cloud-based data platform. This remote role may be filled in North Carolina, Arizona, or Texas and requires hands-on delivery of complex pipeline components.

You will mentor junior engineers, partner with Leads on architectural decisions, and focus on reliability, performance, and cost optimization while growing toward platform ownership.