Senior Data Engineer: Cloud ETL/ELT Pipelines (Remote)

First Citizens Bank; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a remote role with eligibility in North Carolina, Arizona, or Texas. The role focuses on building and operating modern data pipelines within a cloud-based platform, reporting to the Lead Data Engineer and mentoring junior engineers.

You will design, implement, and optimize batch and streaming pipelines, leverage Snowflake, dbt, and AWS/Azure services, and contribute to CI/CD-based deployments while ensuring data quality and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 4+ years in data engineering, cloud platforms.
• Experience designing and operating data pipelines in cloud environments.
• Proven ability to build, test, and deploy data pipelines with CI/CD.
• Experience with Snowflake, dbt, and modern data warehouse patterns.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data pipelines following Medallion Architecture patterns.
• Develop and support ingestion pipelines using Qlik Replicate and batch/CDC methods.
• Create dbt models and implement automated data quality tests.
• Implement Snowflake ingestion, governance, and access controls; build stored procedures.
• Develop and operate cloud data workloads on AWS or Azure; participate in deployment pipelines.

Skills

Data pipelines

Python

dbt

Snowflake

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma

Tools

Qlik Replicate

Snowpipe

dbt Cloud

AWS

Azure

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a remote role with eligibility in North Carolina, Arizona, or Texas. The role focuses on building and operating modern data pipelines within a cloud-based platform, reporting to the Lead Data Engineer and mentoring junior engineers.

You will design, implement, and optimize batch and streaming pipelines, leverage Snowflake, dbt, and AWS/Azure services, and contribute to CI/CD-based deployments while ensuring data quality and governance.