Senior Data Engineer - ELT Pipelines (Remote)

First Citizens Bank; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate modern data pipelines in a cloud-based platform. The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, mentoring juniors, and collaborating with Leads to scale the data platform.

Responsibilities include batch and CDC ingestion, Medallion architecture, Snowflake, and CI/CD deployments with AWS or Azure services. The position is remote and may hire in AZ, NC, or TX, with potential growth 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data pipelines with Bronze-Silver-Gold architecture.
• Ingest data from databases, files, and APIs using batch and CDC.
• Develop dbt models and implement automated data quality tests.
• Develop Snowflake ingestion with Snowpipe and Tasks.
• Use AWS services (S3, Lambda, ECS) or Azure equivalents for data workloads.
• Triage pipeline issues and implement logging/monitoring.
• Mentor junior engineers and partner with stakeholders.

Skills

Data pipelines

Medallion architecture

Python development

dbt modeling

Snowflake

RBAC

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Qlik Replicate

Snowflake

dbt Cloud

GitLab/GitHub Actions

AWS

Azure

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate modern data pipelines in a cloud-based platform. The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, mentoring juniors, and collaborating with Leads to scale the data platform.

Responsibilities include batch and CDC ingestion, Medallion architecture, Snowflake, and CI/CD deployments with AWS or Azure services. The position is remote and may hire in AZ, NC, or TX, with potential growth toward platform ownership.