Senior Data Architect — Enterprise Cloud Data Platform Lead

First Citizens Bank; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise-scale data architectures, shaping data governance and platform modernization efforts. The role collaborates with engineering teams to design scalable, AI-ready data foundations, leveraging AWS, Snowflake, Data Vault 2.0, and DBT across the organization.

The candidate will drive end-to-end data platform design, from ingestion to semantic layers, and guide data product thinking and governance in a rapidly evolving financial

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with 6+ years of Enterprise data architecture experience, or a High School Diploma with 10+ years of experience.
• Experience designing and implementing modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake, AWS) and Data Vault 2.0.
• Ability to lead architecture reviews across engineering, analytics, governance, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise data architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Lead architecture design across operational, analytical, reporting, regulatory, and AI use cases.
• Drive consistency across data acquisition, storage, transformation, governance, and consumption layers.
• Establish architecture guardrails balancing agility, scalability, maintainability, and regulatory compliance.
• Serve as senior technical architect for end-to-end Nexus ecosystem design including data ingestion, storage, processing, and orchestration.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Qlik Replicate

Astronomer / Apache Airflow

AWS

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise-scale data architectures, shaping data governance and platform modernization efforts. The role collaborates with engineering teams to design scalable, AI-ready data foundations, leveraging AWS, Snowflake, Data Vault 2.0, and DBT across the organization.

The candidate will drive end-to-end data platform design, from ingestion to semantic layers, and guide data product thinking and governance in a rapidly evolving financial