Data Engineer II – Qlik, DBT, Snowflake

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Data Engineer II to design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure. The role involves implementing data integration, processing, and analytics solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver efficient and scalable data systems.

Responsibilities:

• Data Pipelines - Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines for efficient data processing and integration for real-time and batch-processing. Implement and optimize ETL processes to extract, load, transform and integrate data from various sources. Enhance data flows and storage solutions for improved performance
• Data Warehousing - Design and implement data warehouse structures. Ensure data quality and consistency within the data warehouse. Apply data modeling techniques for efficient data storage and retrieval
• Data Governance, Quality & Compliance - Implement data governance policies and procedures. Implement data quality frameworks, standards and documentation. Ensure compliance with relevant data regulations and standards
• Security & Access Management - Implement data security measures and access controls. Maintain data protection protocols
• Performance Optimization and Troubleshooting - Analyze and optimize system performance for large-scale data operations. Troubleshoot data issues and implement robust solutions
• Testing & Automation – Write unit test cases, validate the data integrity & consistency requirements, adopt 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
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other teams to understand and meet data requirements. Participate in cross-functional projects to support data-driven initiatives

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and 2 years of experience in Data engineering, database management, or related field OR High School Diploma or GED and 6 years of experience in Data engineering, database management, or related field
• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines for efficient data processing and integration for real-time and batch-processing
• Implement and optimize ETL processes to extract, load, transform and integrate data from various sources
• Enhance data flows and storage solutions for improved performance
• Design and implement data warehouse structures
• Ensure data quality and consistency within the data warehouse
• Apply data modeling techniques for efficient data storage and retrieval
• Implement data governance policies and procedures
• Implement data quality frameworks, standards and documentation
• Ensure compliance with relevant data regulations and standards
• Implement data security measures and access controls
• Maintain data protection protocols
• Analyze and optimize system performance for large-scale data operations
• Troubleshoot data issues and implement robust solutions
• Write unit test cases, validate the data integrity & consistency requirements, adopt automated data pipelines using GitLab, Github, CICD tools
• Adopt release management processes to promote code deployment to various environments including production, disaster recovery, and support activities
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other teams to understand and meet data requirements
• Participate in cross-functional projects to support data-driven initiatives
• Hands-on experience in building robust metadata-driven, automated data pipeline solutions leveraging modern cloud-based data technologies, tools for large data platforms
• Hands-on experience leveraging data security, governance methodologies meeting data compliance requirements
• Experience building automated ELT data pipelines, snowpipe frameworks leveraging Qlik Replicate, DBT Cloud, snowflake with CICD
• Hands-on experience building data integrity solutions across multiple data sources and targets like SQL Server, Oracle, Mainframe-DB2, files, Snowflake
• Experience working with various structured & semi-structured data files - CSV, fixed‑width, JSON, XML, Excel, and mainframe VSAM
• Experience using S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Glue, RDS AWS services
• Proficiency in Python, Pyspark, advanced SQL for ingestion frameworks and automation
• Hands-on data orchestration experience using DBT cloud, Astronomer Airflow
• Experience in implementing logging, monitoring, alerting, observability, performance tuning techniques
• Implement and maintain 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 adopting release management guidelines, code deployment to various environments, implementing disaster recovery strategies, leading production activities
• Experience implementing schema drift detection and schema evolution patterns
• Must have one or more certifications in the relevant technology fields
• Nice to have Financial banking experience