Senior Data Engineer - Remote (Cloud Pipelines & Snowflake)

First Citizens Bank; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; 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. This remote role is available to applicants in North Carolina, Arizona, or Texas and sits one level below the Lead Data Engineer, focusing on implementing and supporting pipelines within established patterns.

As a daily hands-on contributor, you will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with Leads on design decisions, and contribute to CI/CD deployments, data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or 4 years of experience in Data engineering, cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Data Pipeline Development: Design and build data pipelines using Medallion Architecture patterns (Bronze, Silver, Gold).
• Data Ingestion & Integration: Develop and support ingestion pipelines using Qlik Replicate for snapshot and CDC patterns.
• Transformation, Modeling & Testing: Develop dbt models using SQL and Jinja templating; implement automated tests for data quality.
• Snowflake Development & Governance: Implement Snowflake ingestion patterns and RBAC, dynamic masking, and governance practices.
• Cloud Development: Build data workloads on AWS (S3, Lambda, Glue, DynamoDB) and collaborate on deployment pipelines.

Skills

Data pipelines

Python

SQL

dbt

Snowflake

AWS

CI/CD

RBAC

Monitoring

Governance

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Qlik Replicate

dbt Cloud

Splunk

Dynatrace

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate modern data pipelines in a cloud-based platform. This remote role is available to applicants in North Carolina, Arizona, or Texas and sits one level below the Lead Data Engineer, focusing on implementing and supporting pipelines within established patterns.

As a daily hands-on contributor, you will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with Leads on design decisions, and contribute to CI/CD deployments, data