Data Engineer - Remote Opportunity

About the Company
First Citizens Bank provides banking and financial services. The organization offers a benefits program designed to support the needs of its associates as part of its overall employee rewards package.
About the Role
First Citizens Bank is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade data platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an experienced engineer who can own end-to-end data pipelines, establish engineering standards, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers through practical experience.
The role focuses on modern ELT architecture, Snowflake, dbt, Qlik Replicate, Python-based pipeline development, and cloud-native services. Alongside delivering reliable data solutions, the Lead Data Engineer will guide technical decisions, improve engineering practices, and ensure data platforms meet requirements for performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate data pipelines using Medallion Architecture, including Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers.
Own data ingestion, transformation, governance, testing, and publishing processes.
Maintain pipeline reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
Implement change data capture (CDC) and batch ingestion using Qlik Replicate.
Develop ingestion patterns for databases, files, and APIs.
Build reusable Python-based pipeline components and frameworks.
Develop dbt models using advanced SQL and Jinja templating.
Implement automated testing for data quality, schema validation, and data freshness.
Support CI/CD-driven transformation deployments.
Implement Snowflake features, including Snowpipe, Tasks, Streams, and Stored Procedures.
Design and enforce role-based access control (RBAC), dynamic masking, and tag-based access controls.
Maintain data security and compliance through platform-level controls.
Build and deploy data components using AWS services, including S3, Lambda, ECS Fargate, Glue, DynamoDB, and IAM, or equivalent Azure services.
Collaborate on CI/CD processes, infrastructure automation, and environment promotion.
Mentor junior and mid-level data engineers and provide technical guidance.
Lead design discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
Establish and enforce data engineering standards, patterns, and best practices.
Required Qualifications
A bachelor's degree and at least six years of experience in advanced data engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms, and project or technical leadership.
Alternatively, a high school diploma or GED and at least ten years of experience in advanced data engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms, and project or technical leadership.
Hands-on, production-level experience with modern ELT architectures, Snowflake, dbt, Qlik Replicate, Python-based pipeline development, and cloud-native services.
Preferred Qualifications / Requirements
Experience designing and operating data pipelines using Medallion Architecture.
Experience implementing CDC and batch ingestion with Qlik Replicate.
Experience developing custom Python data pipelines.
Familiarity with dbt Mesh Architecture.
Experience with dbt Cloud transformations, testing, advanced SQL, and Jinja templating.
Experience with Snowflake ingestion and platform features, including Snowpipe, Tasks, and Stored Procedures.
Knowledge of Snowflake data governance, including RBAC, tokenization, and dynamic data masking.
Experience with release management, code deployment, and disaster recovery activities.
Cloud development experience using AWS or equivalent Azure services.
Location and Work Arrangement
Remote position, with hiring limited to candidates located in North Carolina, Arizona, or Texas.
Salary & Benefits
Salary information was not provided in the original listing.
First Citizens Bank offers a benefits program as part of its total rewards package, designed to address the needs of its associates. Further benefits details were not included in the supplied listing.

Work arrangement
Yes