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About the Role
Seeking a Lead Data Engineer with deep, hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production-grade data platforms. This role is for senior engineers who have personally implemented end-to-end data pipelines and can mentor junior engineers. The Lead Data Engineer will set engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the data platform.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate data pipelines using Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold).
- Own ingestion, transformation, governance, testing, and publishing layers.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency of pipelines.
- Implement CDC and batch ingestion using Qlik Replicate.
- Design 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 freshness.
- Enable CI/CD-driven transformation deployments.
- Implement Snowpipe, Tasks, Streams, and Stored Procedures.
- Design and enforce RBAC, dynamic masking, and tag-based access control.
- Ensure data security and compliance through platform-level controls.
- Build and deploy data components using AWS services such as S3, Lambda, ECS Fargate, Glue, DynamoDB, and IAM, or equivalent Azure services.
- Collaborate on CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and environment promotion.
- Serve as a technical leader and mentor junior and mid-level data engineers.
- Lead design discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices and standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 6 years of experience in Advanced Data Engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms, and project or technical leadership OR High School Diploma or GED and a minimum of 10 years of experience in Advanced Data Engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms, and project or technical leadership.
- Proven, hands-on production experience with designing and operating Medallion Architecture data pipelines.
- Experience with data ingestion using Qlik Replicate (CDC and batch).
- Experience with custom Python data pipeline development.
- Experience with dbt Mesh Architecture.
- Experience with dbt Cloud transformations, testing, SQL, and Jinja templating.
- Experience with Snowflake ingestion and platform features (Snowpipe, Tasks, Stored Procedures).
- Experience with data governance in Snowflake including RBAC, Tokenization, and dynamic data masking.
- Experience with release management, code deployment, disaster recovery activities.
- Experience with cloud development using AWS or equivalent Azure services.
Skills
- ELT architectures
- Snowflake
- dbt
- Qlik Replicate
- Python
- AWS
- Azure
- SQL
- Jinja templating
- Medallion Architecture
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure automation
- RBAC
- Dynamic masking
- Tag-based access control
- Snowpipe
- Tasks
- Streams
- Stored Procedures
- S3
- Lambda
- ECS Fargate
- Glue
- DynamoDB
- IAM
Location
- North Carolina
- Arizona
- Texas
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Lead
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- High School Diploma or GED
Benefits
- Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program
About the Company
- First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates.