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About the Role

Seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to lead the design, development, integration, and support of secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. This role requires translating business requirements into technical solutions, providing architectural leadership, developing code, mentoring distributed teams, and driving delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Leading all software engineering activities within the team, including architecture, design, development, testing, releases, and production support.
• Mentoring and training team members, providing guidance, feedback, and direction on complex matters.
• Assisting in the communication of performance results and expected behaviors for success.
• Leading specialized technical projects, including development of time estimates, determining scope, and addressing potential impacts.
• Providing insight to management for strategic alignment of technologies with business needs.
• Facilitating system modifications or architectural changes.
• Collaborating effectively with others on technical issues and initiatives, acting as the primary escalation point for technology-related team concerns across the enterprise.
• Maintaining a strong knowledge of Bank technologies, processes, procedures, and industry standards.
• Serving as a resource on one or more specialized technologies to management, associates, and cross-platform teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 8 years' experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 12 years' experience in Technical work in Application Development, Server Administration, Information Security, or Engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering and architecture experience.
• Proven experience designing, developing, and supporting cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Strong expertise with AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SQS and SNS, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, AWS IAM and KMS, AWS Transfer Family.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Experience designing and implementing event-driven, microservices, and serverless architectures.
• Strong hands-on development experience with Java, Spring Boot, and/or Node.js.
• Experience with containerization technologies including Docker and OpenShift.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies.
• Ability to build highly available, fault-tolerant, secure, and scalable enterprise solutions.
• Proven experience leading development teams and driving technical architecture decisions.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) - Preferred
• AWS Certified Developer Associate - Preferred
• Experience with payment processing, ACH, wire transfers, real-time payments, card processing, or other money movement platforms - Preferred
• Experience with financial systems integrations and regulatory reporting solutions - Preferred
• Experience with Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and enterprise observability platforms - Preferred
• Experience leading cloud modernization and application transformation initiatives - Preferred
• Experience in regulated financial services environments - Preferred

Skills

• AWS cloud technologies
• Software engineering
• Solution architecture
• Serverless applications
• Event-driven applications
• Containerized applications
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon ECS
• AWS Step Functions
• Amazon SQS
• Amazon SNS
• Amazon S3
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon RDS
• AWS IAM
• AWS KMS
• AWS Transfer Family
• Terraform
• Infrastructure as Code
• Java
• Spring Boot
• Node.js
• Docker
• OpenShift
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automated deployment strategies
• Communication
• Stakeholder management
• Problem-solving
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS X-Ray
• Observability platforms

Location

• AZ
• NC
• TX

Work Type

• Remote
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Lead
• 8 years' experience
• 12 years' experience
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering and architecture experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree
• High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent

Benefits

• Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program

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.