Senior Data Architect: Cloud-Native Data Platform & AI-Ready

First Citizens; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise-scale data architecture across ED&A. You will design governance, data products, and platform modernization spanning OLTP, OLAP, and cloud data services.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, define reference architectures, and drive performance, metadata management, and data quality. Expertise in Snowflake, DBT, AWS, and Data Vault 2.0 is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 6+ years in enterprise data architecture, or alternative with 10+ years experience.
• Deep expertise across OLTP, OLAP, cloud platforms, data governance, and data modeling.
• Experience with Snowflake, DBT, Qlik Replicate, and Airflow preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise data architecture standards and reference architectures.
• Lead design across operational, analytical, regulatory, and AI use cases.
• Drive data acquisition, storage, transformation, governance, and consumption layers.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Data governance

Data modeling

Cloud platforms

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree + 6 years in data architecture

High School diploma + 10 years experience

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Qlik Replicate

Astronomer / Airflow

AWS

Data Vault 2.0

Job description

First Citizens is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise-scale data architecture across ED&A. You will design governance, data products, and platform modernization spanning OLTP, OLAP, and cloud data services.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, define reference architectures, and drive performance, metadata management, and data quality. Expertise in Snowflake, DBT, AWS, and Data Vault 2.0 is highly valued.