Innovation Software Engineer Lead (AI, Fintech)

Fifth Third Bank; United States; Remote; USD 82,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Fifth Third Bank is seeking a Lead Innovation Software Engineer to bridge strategy and hands-on delivery across technology, product, and risk teams. You will transform ideas into prototypes, dashboards, and capability visions while mentoring colleagues and ensuring responsible AI adoption.

This virtual role offers exposure to enterprise architecture, fintech trends, and a dynamic, risk-aware environment with a focus on customer impact and modern software practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience in roles closely aligned to the responsibilities of this position.
• Strong front-end development experience delivering commercial solutions using modern web standards and frameworks such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, React, Vue, or similar tools.
• Deep experience with at least one server-side language such as Python, Java, Node.js, or PHP.
• Infrastructure experience building, configuring, and supporting scalable web applications in cloud or hosted environments such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with modern server-side tooling, deployment practices, and hosting models.
• Experience working in a mature DevOps environment using version control, CI/CD, and automated testing practices.
• Proficiency with generative AI for productivity and full-lifecycle software development.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake), along with experience building and consuming data pipelines across both real-time/event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, APIs) and batch/integration patterns for one-off or analytical use cases.
• Familiarity with end-to-end data lifecycle—from ingestion through transformation to visualization—including use of analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI) and/or integrated data platforms (e.g., Dataiku) to support business insights and decision-making.
• Strong understanding of agile product development and iterative delivery.
• Working knowledge of blockchain, digital assets, smart contracts, and web3 technologies.
• Ability to make sound design decisions and clearly explain the rationale behind them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build trust with team members, business partners, and customers and use those relationships to identify new opportunities.
• Commitment to mentoring others and sharing knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned.
• Ability to identify meaningful opportunities for change and translate them into effective design or technology responses.
• Comfort working iteratively, making informed decisions with incomplete information, and adapting based on feedback.
• Strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Understand current and future-state tech architecture.
• Shape product-led enterprise evolution.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to expand enterprise technology capabilities in support of customer and product innovation.
• Lead data workflows including ETL and develop dashboards/visualizations (Power BI) for decision-making.
• Evaluate fintechs and emerging startups; synthesize findings into strategic recommendations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members.
• Translate customer needs and industry shifts into actionable insights.

Skills

Front-end dev

HTML5

CSS

JavaScript

React

Angular

Vue

Power BI

SQL

Kafka

Snowflake

APIs

DevOps

CI/CD

AI

Tools

Kafka

Snowflake

Power BI

APIs

Dataiku

AWS

Azure

Job description

Fifth Third Bank is seeking a Lead Innovation Software Engineer to bridge strategy and hands-on delivery across technology, product, and risk teams. You will transform ideas into prototypes, dashboards, and capability visions while mentoring colleagues and ensuring responsible AI adoption.

This virtual role offers exposure to enterprise architecture, fintech trends, and a dynamic, risk-aware environment with a focus on customer impact and modern software practices.