Senior Snowflake Data Engineer & Platform Architect Remote

First Citizens; Raleigh (NC); A distancia; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

First Citizens is seeking a senior data engineer to architect scalable data landscapes, implement governance and secure Snowflake deployments. The role emphasizes building data pipelines, RBAC enforcement, and partnering with analytics teams to deliver reliable data products.

You will lead data warehousing initiatives, optimize performance, and drive CI/CD practices while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to promote data literacy across the organization.

Formación

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years' experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 8 years' experience in data engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms.

Responsabilidades

• Data Architecture and Strategy - Design and implement scalable, efficient data architectures. Lead the development of data strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Data Governance, Security & Quality Management - Establish and enforce data governance policies, best practices and implement data quality checks, standardization.
• Enforce Snowflake RBAC/ABAC, network policies/rules, masking/row access policies, tags, data classification, and least-privilege role hierarchies.
• Data warehousing & modeling - Build performant Snowflake objects (databases, tables, streams, tasks, materialized views, warehouses) and optimize clustering/micro-partitioning.
• Performance Optimization and Troubleshooting - Analyze and optimize system performance for large-scale data operations. Troubleshoot complex data issues and implement robust solutions.
• Testing – Validate snowflake data objects, roles, RBAC policies, configurations, integrations, access.
• Code Deployment & Release Management - Adopt release management processes to promote code deployment to various environments including production, disaster recovery, and support activities.
• Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing - Mentor junior data engineers and provide technical guidance. Contribute to the development of best practices and standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive data literacy.

Conocimientos

Data architecture

Data governance

Cloud platforms

Data wrangling

Performance optimization

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent with 8 years experience

Herramientas

Snowflake

Okta

SailPoint

DBT

Power BI

Tableau

Airflow

Astronomer

Splunk

Dynatrace

Cortex AI

Kafka

Descripción del empleo

First Citizens is seeking a senior data engineer to architect scalable data landscapes, implement governance and secure Snowflake deployments. The role emphasizes building data pipelines, RBAC enforcement, and partnering with analytics teams to deliver reliable data products.

You will lead data warehousing initiatives, optimize performance, and drive CI/CD practices while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to promote data literacy across the organization.