First Citizens Bank · 19 hours ago
Senior Data Engineer – DBT, Snowflake
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expFirst Citizens Bank is a financial institution seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize complex data solutions. This role involves leading the development of data pipelines and analytics platforms while mentoring junior team members and collaborating with stakeholders for data-driven decision-making.
BankingInsuranceLendingPaymentsWealth Management
Responsibilities
Data Architecture and Strategy - Design and implement scalable, efficient data architectures. Lead the development of data strategy aligned with business objectives. Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance data capabilities
Hands-on Data Pipeline Development - Implement complex data pipelines for real-time and batch processing by ingesting, transforming data from staging layer to domain to consumption layers using Data Vault 2.0 models. Optimize data flows for high-volume, high-velocity data environments. Develop advanced ETL processes for diverse data sources
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. Operationalize audit-ready controls (change management, approvals, runbooks, separation of duties, evidence capture)
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 & Automation - Write unit test cases, validate the data integrity & consistency requirements, build automated data pipelines using GitLab, Github, CICD tools
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Data engineering, big data technologies, cloud platforms OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Data engineering, big data technologies, cloud platforms
Preferred
Strong hands-on experience in building robust metadata-driven, automated, secured, governed data pipeline solutions leveraging modern cloud data technologies, tools for large data platforms
Strong experience designing, building, and operating secure, audited, and cost-efficient data pipelines using medallion architecture on Snowflake—from raw ingestion to Data Vault 2.0 models and onward to business-friendly consumption layers (mart/semantic)
Strong hands-on experience building, managing, packaging, deploying DBT Cloud data pipelines with advanced macros, SQL; automating testing strategies; and maintaining lineage
Strong experience in Snowflake architecture, data classification, tagging & masking automation, Universal Search, performance tuning, security and cost optimization
Strong hands-on experience building snowflake objects (tables, streams, tasks, materialized views) and optimize clustering/micro-partitioning
Strong experience using Astronomer Airflow for orchestrating, scheduling data pipelines; and Terraform (with HashiCorp practices) for IaaC automation of pipelines
Strong hands-on experience building data pipelines, data integrity solutions across multiple data sources and targets like SQL Server, Oracle, Mainframe-DB2, files, Snowflake
Experience using S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Glue, RDS AWS services
Excellent proficiency in Python, Pyspark, advanced SQL for ingestion frameworks and automation
Experience in implementing logging, monitoring, alerting with Snowflake using ACCOUNT_USAGE/INFORMATION_SCHEMA, event tables, and integrating with Splunk, Datadog
Strong experience designing, implementing tokenization, RBAC, masking policies, dynamic & conditional masking, data access controls across Snowflake and supporting systems
Strong experience in adopting release management guidelines, code deployment to various environments, implementing disaster recovery strategies, leading production activities
Experience in SCIM/SSO (Okta), MFA, ephemeral credentials, service-account hardening
Internal dbt packages, reusable Terraform modules, project templates experience is a plus
Experience with Iceberg/external tables; Kafka or event-driven ingestion patterns is a plus
Experience FinOps for Snowflake, cost charge-back/show-back, warehouse auto-tuning is a plus
Power BI/Looker metric-layer design; semantic modeling concepts experience is a plus
Great Expectations, Monte Carlo/Anomalo/Atlan/Collibra/BigID integrations experience is a plus
DBT mesh, custom materializations, Slim CI, state comparison experience is a plus
Financial banking experience is a plus
Must have one or more certifications in the relevant technology fields
Company
First Citizens Bank
First Citizens Bank provides banking services, essential business and professional services, wealth management capabilities, and more.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$33M2021-05-07Post Ipo Debt· $10M
2018-08-29Post Ipo Debt· $23M
1986-10-31IPO
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Craig Nix
Chief Financial Officer
Samantha Bureau - Johnson
SVP & Director, Customer Contact Center
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