Senior Enterprise Data Analyst - Remote & Governance Lead

First Citizens; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens is seeking an Enterprise Data professional to lead governance, architecture, and data quality initiatives across the bank. You will drive analytics enhancements, ensure policy compliance, and collaborate with IT and business units to mature data capabilities.

The role requires deep knowledge of data warehousing, ETL, and SAS-based tools, with leadership responsibilities and a focus on documentation and reporting. Remote with location options in Charlotte, Raleigh, or Phoenix.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Data Management, Data Analytics OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Data Management, Data Analytics
• Preferred Education: Advanced Degree License or Certification Type: DAMA Certified Data Management Professional-Practitioner (CDMP-P) certification
• Preferred Skill(s): Understanding of data warehousing and transformation methods, lineage documentation, and ETL processes, Knowledge of data spreadsheets and databases, Understanding of Base SAS programming, SAS Enterprise Guide, Cognos, or related programs, Ability to write SAS programming language

Responsibilities

• Data Enhancement - Leads the implementation of enhancements for the quality, management, and storage of enterprise data. Executes initiatives that improve profiling, exception reporting, and issue resolution as well as general fixes for the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Builds dashboards to modernize analytics and assists management with special data projects.
• Business Support - Enforces data policies and procedures across the enterprise. Encourages discussion and feedback from associates in order to identify areas of improvement within data management capabilities. Completes month-end validations on reporting data to ensure the quality and completeness of data prior to business use. May assist in training or mentoring less experienced consultants in the work group.
• Business Strategy - Facilitates strategies that develop the Bank’s data management capabilities. Assists management in creating and implementing a strategic road to achieve planned objectives. Works cross-functionally to mature department presence within Bank business units. Maintains a strong knowledge of current and emerging technologies or trends impacting the financial service industry.
• Documentation - Creates and maintains technical documentation for the Enterprise Data Warehouse, which includes source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, and other related materials. Identifies and creates centralized business critical reports.

Skills

Data warehousing

ETL processes

Lineage documentation

Data spreadsheets

Databases

SAS programming

SAS Enterprise Guide

Cognos

SAS language

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree or CDMP-P (preferred)

High school diploma + 10 years experience (alternative)

Tools

SAS Enterprise Guide

Cognos

Job description

First Citizens is seeking an Enterprise Data professional to lead governance, architecture, and data quality initiatives across the bank. You will drive analytics enhancements, ensure policy compliance, and collaborate with IT and business units to mature data capabilities.

The role requires deep knowledge of data warehousing, ETL, and SAS-based tools, with leadership responsibilities and a focus on documentation and reporting. Remote with location options in Charlotte, Raleigh, or Phoenix.