Lead Software Engineer

Truist; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Disability

AD&D

401k

Vacation

Sick days

Paid holidays

Pension plan

RSUs

Deferred compensation

Job summary

Truist is seeking an experienced software architect to shape the architecture and delivery of high impact payment systems. You will drive design across large initiatives, set technical direction, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and leadership to meet divisional goals.

The role emphasizes scalable, secure solutions, modern practices, and ongoing evaluation of new technologies to influence roadmaps and platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 12 years of professional experience in software development and architecture.
• Expert proficiency in multiple programming languages, software architecture, and design principles.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle, security, testing, and deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Shapes and drives the architecture and delivery of high impact software solutions that directly support divisional strategy and results.
• Defines and recommends software architecture and engineering approaches for complex, high impact initiatives within the division.
• Pioneers and promotes advanced software engineering standards, practices, and governance mechanisms.
• Partners with senior technology leadership, product, and architecture teams to inform technology strategy with deep technical insight.
• Leads the end to end technical design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available software solutions.
• Resolves the most challenging technical issues in the domain, designing innovative architectures and performance, reliability, and scalability improvements.
• Provides technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to engineers and architects across teams.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and research, building prototypes and novel solution approaches.
• Contributes to long term technical roadmaps and investment decisions for the domain.
• Technically leads large, complex initiatives as an individual contributor across multiple teams.

Skills

Java

Software architecture

Cloud AWS

Security

Education

Bachelor’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Aurora PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

MQ

Job description

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Regular or Temporary

Regular

Language Fluency

English (Required)

Work Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description

Shapes and drives the architecture and delivery of high impact software solutions that directly support divisional strategy and results. Applies advanced software engineering, architectural practices, and emerging technologies to design innovative, scalable solutions, while providing cross team technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship. Leads large, complex initiatives of strategic importance, setting technical direction that pioneers new practices and advances strategic goals for the division.

Essential Responsibilities

• Focus on design, implementation of payment end to end workflow and resiliency for high volume transactions.
• Defines and recommends software architecture and engineering approaches for complex, high impact initiatives within the division, shaping operational plans and technical direction for the area of responsibility.
• Pioneers and promotes advanced software engineering standards, practices, and governance mechanisms that are adopted across multiple teams and measurably improve divisional outcomes.
• Partners with senior technology leadership, product, and architecture teams to inform technology strategy with deep technical insight, proposing new solution patterns that support strategic goals.
• Leads the end to end technical design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available software solutions, creating reference implementations that other teams reuse and extend.
• Resolves the most challenging technical issues in the domain, designing innovative architectures and performance, reliability, and scalability improvements that elevate divisional engineering practices.
• Provides technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to engineers and architects across teams, raising the overall technical bar through hands on design input, code review, and knowledge sharing.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and research, building prototypes and novel solution approaches that influence divisional roadmaps and unlock new business or platform capabilities.
• Contributes significantly to long term technical roadmaps and investment decisions for the domain through well grounded recommendations, design proposals, and thought leadership.
• Technically leads large, complex initiatives of strategic importance as an individual contributor, coordinating work across multiple teams to ensure cohesive, high quality technical outcomes.
• Operates with substantial autonomy as a recognized technical leader, balancing innovation with risk and driving engineering decisions that directly impact divisional results.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 12 years of professional experience in software development and architecture.
• Expert proficiency in multiple programming languages, software architecture, and design principles.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle, security, testing, and deployment practices.

Preferred Qualifications & Certifications

• Professional certifications such as Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) or equivalent.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, microservices, container orchestration, and DevOps.
• Strong familiarity with Agile frameworks, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and enterprise innovation management.

Other Skills

• proficient in microservices architecture
• Java/ spring boot stack, AWS cloud, MQ, Kafka, Aurora PostrgreSQL, Dynamo DB, ISO messages, RTP domain.

Benefits

All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position.

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• disability
• accidental death and dismemberment
• tax-preferred savings accounts
• a 401k plan
• no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status)
• 10 sick days (also prorated)
• paid holidays
• defined benefit pension plan
• restricted stock units
• a deferred compensation plan

For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site.

Equal Opportunity

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law.

Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.

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