First Citizens Bank · 4 hours ago
Lead Data Engineer – Qlik/ Snowflake/ DBT
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
6+ years expFirst Citizens Bank is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to architect, design, implement, and optimize complex data solutions. This role involves leading the development of data pipelines, warehouses, and analytics platforms while mentoring junior team members and collaborating with stakeholders to drive data-driven decision-making.
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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 - As a technical lead, implement complex data pipelines for real-time and batch processing. Optimize data flows for high-volume, high-velocity data environments. Develop advanced ETL processes for diverse data sources
Data Governance and Quality Management - Drive, establish and enforce data governance policies and best practices. Implement data quality frameworks and monitoring systems. Ensure compliance with data regulations and standards
Performance Optimization and Troubleshooting - Take charge, analyze and optimize system performance for large-scale data operations. Troubleshoot complex data issues and implement robust solutions
Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing - Mentor junior data engineers and provide technical guidance. Be current on data technologies, recommend best practices and standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, leadership to drive data literacy
Testing & Automation - Enforce/write unit test cases, validate/review the data integrity & consistency results, drive automated data pipelines using GitLab, Github, CICD tools
Code Deployment & Release Management - Review & approve code promotions, enforce release management procedures to promote code deployment to various environments including production, disaster recovery, and support activities
Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into an efficient architecture solution
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Advanced data engineering, enterprise architecture, project leadership OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Advanced data engineering, enterprise architecture, project leadership
Preferred
Deep expertise in designing, building robust metadata-driven, automated data pipeline solutions leveraging modern cloud-based data technologies, tools for large data warehouse, database platforms
Deep experience leveraging data security, governance methodologies meeting data compliance requirements
Strong hands-on experience designing, building medallion architecture ELT pipelines, snowpipe, streaming frameworks using Qlik Replicate, DBT Cloud transformations, snowflake, GitLab with CICD
Strong experience designing, building data integrity solutions across multiple data sources and targets like SQL Server, Oracle, Mainframe-DB2, files, Snowflake
Strong design, development experience in Python/Pyspark, advanced SQL for ingestion frameworks and automation
Strong experience architecting, building solutions using S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Glue, RDS AWS services
Strong experience working with various structured and semi-structured data files - CSV, fixed‑width, JSON, XML, Excel, and mainframe VSAM
Strong orchestration experience using DBT cloud, Astronomer Airflow
Design, implement logging, monitoring, alerting, observability using tools like Dynatrace
Strong experience in problem solving, performance tuning
Design and implement schema drift detection and schema evolution patterns
Strong experience designing, implementing sensitive data protection strategies - tokenization, snowflake data masking policies, dynamic & conditional masking, and role‑based masking rules
Strong experience designing, implementing RBAC, data access controls, adopting governance standards across Snowflake and supporting systems
Strong experience in enforcing, adopting release management guidelines, code deployment to various environments, implementing disaster recovery strategies, leading production activities
Ability to make technical data decisions for key business use cases
Ability to prioritize investment on new data-related technologies in conjunction with business units
Must have one or more certifications in the relevant technology fields
Financial banking experience is a plus
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
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$33M2021-05-07Post Ipo Debt· $10M
2018-08-29Post Ipo Debt· $23M
1986-10-31IPO
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Craig Nix
Chief Financial Officer
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SVP & Director, Customer Contact Center
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