Lead Software Engineer

Crump Life Insurance Svcs Inc; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k plan with matching

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Truist in Raleigh, NC, seeks a senior software architect to focus on the design and implementation of payment end-to-end workflows and resiliency for high-volume transactions.

You will define architecture, lead end-to-end technical design, promote engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and architecture teams to strengthen technology strategy and roadmaps.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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 across teams.
• Leads end-to-end design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available software solutions.
• Resolves challenging technical issues, improving performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Provides technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and architects across teams.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and builds prototypes to influence roadmaps.
• Contributes to long-term technical roadmaps and investment decisions.
• Operates with autonomy as a technical leader and coordinates work across teams.

Skills

Microservices architecture

Java/Spring Boot

ISO messages

RTP domain

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Software Engineering

PhD in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

AWS cloud

MQ

Kafka

Aurora PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Job Details

Regular or Temporary: Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

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

• 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.

Preferred 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.

Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates.

Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays.

For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan.

As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.

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.

EEO is the Law E-Verify IER Right to Work About Truist Truist is a purpose-driven financial services company, formed by the historic merger of equals of BB&T and SunTrust. We serve clients in a number of high-growth markets in the country, offering a wide range of financial services. At Truist, our purpose is to inspire and build better lives and communities. That happens through real care to make things better. To meet client needs, to empower teammates, and to lift up communities. Learn more about Truist on truist.com.