Senior Data Engineer

First Citizens Bank is a financial services organization seeking a Senior Data Engineer to support enterprise applications for financial model execution platforms and related data platform capabilities. The role involves full-stack application development, technical leadership, architecture collaboration, production support, and continuous improvement across scalable, secure, and high-performance systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable full-stack applications using React.js, Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, Kafka, and relational databases
• Design and implement RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven solutions to support business and data processing requirements
• Translate business requirements into technical designs and implementation plans
• Build reusable components, application frameworks, and shared services to improve development efficiency
• Lead and participate in architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and code reviews
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers and project teams
• Establish and promote engineering best practices, coding standards, and development methodologies
• Analyze business and technical requirements and assess system impacts, dependencies, and risks
• Provide effort estimates, technical recommendations, and implementation strategies for new initiatives and enhancements
• Collaborate with solution architects, product owners, and stakeholders to define scalable solutions
• Support production applications and troubleshoot complex issues across UI, middleware, messaging platforms, and databases
• Monitor application performance and identify opportunities for optimization and automation
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident management activities
• Develop automated units, integration, and regression tests
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to application performance, security, reliability, and maintainability
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, retrospectives, and release activities

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Software application development, Data engineering, cloud platforms
• High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Software application development, Data Integrations, cloud platforms
• Preferred Area of Study: Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or related field
• Preferred Area of Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience developing enterprise-scale applications
• Strong experience building web applications using React.js and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Strong experience developing backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture
• Experience implementing event-driven architecture using Kafka
• Experience using Python for automation, data processing, or backend services
• Advanced SQL development and database design experience with Oracle and Netezza
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs
• Experience with GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, Jira, and Confluence
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Excellent ability to communicate technical information clearly and work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is preferred
• Experience within financial services, banking, risk, treasury, forecasting, or regulatory reporting environments is highly desirable