Senior Cloud Data Engineer — Remote (AWS, Snowflake)

First Citizens Bank; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Platform Engineering Organization and help build scalable cloud-based data solutions that enable analytics and data-driven decision-making across the organization.

The ideal candidate will be hands-on with cloud data platforms, data warehousing, ETL/ELT development, and modern data engineering practices, leveraging AWS Services, Snowflake, dbt, Python, and SQL to deliver reliable data assets and insights across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Cloud Data Platforms, or related technology disciplines.
• OR
• High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Cloud Data Platforms, or related technology disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support scalable data pipelines, data warehouses, and cloud-based data solutions utilizing AWS Services, Snowflake, dbt, Python, SQL, and related technologies.
• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT processes, data integrations, and transformation frameworks supporting operational, reporting, and analytical workloads.
• Implement and enhance data quality controls, reconciliation processes, testing frameworks, and dbt tests to ensure trusted and reliable data assets.
• Optimize data pipeline performance and operational efficiency through monitoring, alert investigation, automation, testing, CI/CD, dashboard development, and production support activities.
• Develop monitoring dashboards and operational metrics to improve platform visibility, reliability, and incident response.
• Support deployment automation, release validation, and environment promotion processes to improve delivery reliability and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver scalable data solutions that support business objectives.
• Contribute to engineering best practices through technical discussions, peer reviews, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives across the data engineering team
• Leverage AI-powered development and productivity tools to improve engineering efficiency, code quality, testing, and delivery outcomes.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud data platforms

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT development

Data warehousing

Data modeling

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a data-related field

High School Diploma or GED with 8 years of experience

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Apache Airflow

Spark

AWS

Kinesis

CI/CD

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Platform Engineering Organization and help build scalable cloud-based data solutions that enable analytics and data-driven decision-making across the organization.

The ideal candidate will be hands-on with cloud data platforms, data warehousing, ETL/ELT development, and modern data engineering practices, leveraging AWS Services, Snowflake, dbt, Python, and SQL to deliver reliable data assets and insights across