Senior Enterprise Data Analyst

The Senior Enterprise Data Analyst is a key member of the Enterprise Data organization, responsible for advancing enterprise data governance, architecture, and quality across the Bank.

This role leads strategic initiatives to improve data quality, governance, reporting, and analytics, driving measurable business value through technical expertise, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration. The position partners closely with business and technology stakeholders to strengthen enterprise data capabilities, ensure regulatory compliance, and enable data-driven decision-making.

This individual also provides expert consultation to leadership, and other stakeholders, and may mentor junior team members.

Duties & Responsibilities:
Data Enhancement - Leads the implementation of enhancements for the quality, management, and storage of enterprise data. Executes initiatives that improve profiling, exception reporting, and issue resolution as well as general fixes for the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Builds dashboards to modernize analytics and assists management with special data projects.
Business Support - Enforces data policies and procedures across the enterprise. Encourages discussion and feedback from associates in order to identify areas of improvement within data management capabilities. Completes month-end validations on reporting data to ensure the quality and completeness of data prior to business use. May assist in training or mentoring less experienced consultants in the work group.
Business Strategy - Facilitates strategies that develop the Bank’s data management capabilities. Assists management in creating and implementing a strategic road to achieve planned objectives. Works cross-functionally to mature department presence within Bank business units. Maintains a strong knowledge of current and emerging technologies or trends impacting the financial service industry.
Documentation - Creates and maintains technical documentation for the Enterprise Data Warehouse, which includes source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, and other related materials. Identifies and creates centralized business critical reports.

Position Specific Skills:
Understanding of data warehousing and transformation methods, lineage documentation, and ETL processes
Knowledge of data spreadsheets and databases
Understanding of Base SAS programming, SAS Enterprise Guide, Cognos, or related programs
Ability to write SAS programming language
Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Data Management, Data Analytics OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Data Management, Data Analytics

Preferred Qualifications

• DAMA Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) – Practitioner level or higher
• Prior experience in financial services or banking

Technical Skills & Experience

• Strong expertise in data governance frameworks and methodologies
• Hands-on experience with Collibra (Ranger certification preferred)
• Experience with Collibra Data Quality or comparable data quality tools
• Familiarity with Agile delivery models and SaaS/cloud ecosystems
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts, ETL processes, and data lineage
• Experience with analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Cognos)
• Exposure to SAS (Base SAS, Enterprise Guide) or similar tools is a plus

Core Competencies

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities
• Ability to translate complex concepts into clear, actionable insights
• Influences both technical and non-technical audiences effectively
• High level of ownership, initiative, and execution discipline
• Strong prioritization and multitasking abilities

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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 https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.