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About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to provide technology solutions and integration services in Payments & Money movement and information reporting. This role involves providing technical guidance, estimating efforts, selecting optimal technology solutions, offering day-to-day application support, and navigating unknowns. The ideal candidate will possess both short- and long-term strategic vision, the ability to code, and experience overseeing distributed development teams. This position is responsible for leading all software aspects within the team, including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing, and support.

Responsibilities

Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs for functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
Provide development leadership (Architecture, Strategy, Design, Development) on client-facing Payments platforms.
Drive department best practices, guidelines implementation, and adherence to standards.
Create a superlative developer experience.
Build elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code.
Abstract and refactor code.
Learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty.
Improve yourself and constructively support the team.
Drive technical designs to consensus and approval by the Architecture Review Team.
Design and develop enterprise solutions that provide reusable frameworks, interfaces, and services.
Perform impact analysis of proposed changes on existing architecture, capabilities, system priorities, and technology solutions.
Identify cost/benefit implications of proposed solutions.
Create and maintain application architecture and related assets.
Act as the go-to person for development team on architecture discussions.
Supervise release processes, which may include after-hours/weekend work.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree and 2 years of experience in Application software programming OR High School Diploma or GED and 6 years of experience in Application software programming.
Expert in Lambda & ECS (serverless + containers).
Strong in Step Functions, SQS, SNS (event-driven systems).
Experience with S3, DynamoDB & RDS (storage + databases).
Proficient in KMS & IAM (security & access).
Hands-on with AWS Transfer Family (SFTP).
Skilled in Terraform (IaC).
Experience with CloudWatch/X-Ray (monitoring).
Experience with Docker & OpenShift (containers & orchestration).
Strong in Java, Spring Boot & Node.js (backend development).
Ability to build scalable, fault-tolerant architectures.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Developer required.

Skills

Payments & Money movement
Information reporting
Technical guidance
Effort estimation
Technology solution selection
Application support
Strategic thinking
Code development
Distributed team oversight
Research
Design
Technology insertion
Development
Testing
Support
Architecture
Strategy
Scalability
Reliability
Best practices
Guidelines implementation
Standards adherence
Developer experience
Maintainable code
Documented code
Secure code
Code refactoring
Continuous learning
Team support
Technical design consensus
Enterprise solutions
Impact analysis
Cost/benefit analysis
Application architecture
Release process supervision
Lambda
ECS
Step Functions
SQS
SNS
S3
DynamoDB
RDS
KMS
IAM
AWS Transfer Family
SFTP
Terraform
IaC
CloudWatch
X-Ray
Docker
OpenShift
Java
Spring Boot
Node.js
Fault-tolerant architectures
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
AWS Certified Developer

Location

Remote
North Carolina
Arizona
Texas

Work Type

Remote
Full-time

Experience Level

Lead
2 years of experience in Application software programming
6 years of experience in Application software programming

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree
High School Diploma or GED

Benefits

Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates.

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.