Senior Snowflake Data Engineer (Remote)

First Citizens Bank; Scottsdale (AZ); Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank seeks an experienced data engineer to own the Snowflake data platform across multiple accounts in a remote-capable role. You will design scalable architectures, enforce governance and security policies, and build robust data pipelines in an agile environment.

Responsibilities include optimizing performance, guiding release processes, and mentoring junior engineers while collaborating with stakeholders to drive data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 4+ years of data engineering experience or HS diploma/GED with 8+ years of experience.
• Experience designing secure, cost-efficient data warehouses using Snowflake medallion architecture.
• Strong knowledge of RBAC/ABAC, data governance, masking, and lineage.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data architectures aligned with business objectives.
• Establish and enforce data governance, security, and quality practices in Snowflake.
• Build and optimize Snowflake objects and data models; optimize clustering and performance.
• Provide release management for code across environments including production and DR.
• Mentor junior data engineers and promote best practices across teams.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

Mentorship

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Data/CS

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

PowerBI

Tableau

Airflow

AWS

Job description

First Citizens Bank seeks an experienced data engineer to own the Snowflake data platform across multiple accounts in a remote-capable role. You will design scalable architectures, enforce governance and security policies, and build robust data pipelines in an agile environment.

Responsibilities include optimizing performance, guiding release processes, and mentoring junior engineers while collaborating with stakeholders to drive data-driven decisions.