Senior Data Engineer - Snowflake

<strong>Overview<br><br></strong>This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Arizona.<br><br>This position is responsible for managing Snowflake data platform with multiple accounts. The role requires a deep knowledge of snowflake platform design, security, data warehouses, objects & access management, and features required for development of sophisticated data pipelines in an agile environment and collaboration with technical partners, stakeholders to drive data-driven decision-making.<br><br><strong>Responsibilities & Qualifications<br><br></strong><strong>Duties & Responsibilities:<br><br></strong><ul><li>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</li><li>Data Governance, Security & Quality Management - Establish and enforce data governance policies, best practices and implement data quality checks, standardization. Enforce Snowflake RBAC/ABAC, network policies/rules, masking/row access policies, tags, data classification, and least-privilege role hierarchies. </li><li>Data warehousing & modeling - Build performant Snowflake objects (databases, tables, streams, tasks, materialized views, warehouses) and optimize clustering/micro-partitioning </li><li>Performance Optimization and Troubleshooting - Analyze and optimize system performance for large-scale data operations. Troubleshoot complex data issues and implement robust solutions</li><li>Testing – Validate snowflake data objects, roles, RBAC policies, configurations, integrations, access.</li><li>Code Deployment & Release Management - Adopt release management processes to promote code deployment to various environments including production, disaster recovery, and support activities.</li><li>Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing - Mentor junior data engineers and provide technical guidance. Contribute to the development of best practices and standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive data literacy<br><br></li></ul><strong>Qualifications<br><br></strong>Bachelor's Degree and 4 years' experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 8 years' experience in data engineering, data technologies, cloud platforms<br><br><strong>Preferred Qualifications<br><br></strong><ul><li>Designing, building, operating secure, cost-efficient data warehouses using medallion architecture on Snowflake.</li><li>Snowflake data security and governance strategies – Okta/SailPoint integration, RBAC, masking, data classification, tokenization, lineage.</li><li>Building, deploying metadata-driven, secured, governed snowflake objects, streamlit applications and dashboards, data pipelines integrated with AWS, DBT, observability tools through CICD automation.</li><li>Building, configuring, testing integrations between Snowflake and on-premise/cloud RDBMS and non-RDBMS data sources, Python frameworks, DBT, and reporting tools like PowerBI, Tableau etc.</li><li>Orchestrating, scheduling data pipelines using Astronomer Airflow.</li><li>FinOps for Snowflake, cost charge-back/show-back, warehouse auto-tuning.</li><li>Implementing logging, monitoring, alerting with Snowflake using ACCOUNT_USAGE/INFORMATION_SCHEMA, event tables, and integrating with Splunk, Dynatrace.</li><li>Adopting release management guidelines, code deployment to various environments, implementing disaster recovery strategies, leading production activities.</li><li>Experience with Cortex AI, Iceberg/external tables; Kafka or event-driven ingestion patterns.</li><li>Great Expectations, Monte Carlo/Anomalo/Atlan/Collibra/BigID integrations experience is a plus.</li><li>Financial banking, domain, consumption model experience is a plus.</li><li>Relevant cloud or data platform certifications<br><br></li></ul><strong>Additional Information<br><br></strong>Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at

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