Lead Cloud-Native Payments Engineer (AWS)

First Citizens Bank; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and support secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms.

You will translate business requirements into technical solutions, provide architectural leadership, mentor distributed teams, and drive delivery in a fast-paced enterprise environment, leveraging AWS, serverless, containers, and CI/CD to ensure highly available systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering and architecture experience.

Responsibilities

• This role leads all software engineering activities within the team, including architecture, design, development, testing, releases, and production support.

Skills

AWS Cloud

AWS Lambda

Amazon ECS

AWS Step Functions

SQS & SNS

S3

DynamoDB

RDS

IAM/KMS

Terraform

OpenShift

Docker

CI/CD

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

Event-driven

Microservices

Serverless

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED + 12 years experience

Tools

Terraform

OpenShift

Docker

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and support secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms.

You will translate business requirements into technical solutions, provide architectural leadership, mentor distributed teams, and drive delivery in a fast-paced enterprise environment, leveraging AWS, serverless, containers, and CI/CD to ensure highly available systems.