Remote AWS Lead Engineer – Payments & Cloud Native

First Citizens; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to design, develop, and support secure, scalable cloud-native solutions across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. The role emphasizes AWS-centric architecture, serverless patterns, and strong software engineering leadership.

The ideal candidate will mentor distributed teams, drive delivery in a fast-paced environment, and balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural strategy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering and architecture experience.
• Designing, developing, and supporting cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Strong experience with AWS Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, KMS, and AWS Transfer Family.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead all software engineering activities within the team, including architecture, design, development, testing, releases, and production support.
• Mentor and train team members; provide guidance on complex technical issues.
• Lead specialized technical projects, estimate time, determine scope, and assess impacts.
• Align technologies with business needs and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on Bank technologies to management and cross-platform teams.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

Architecture design

Team leadership

Communication

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

OpenShift

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to design, develop, and support secure, scalable cloud-native solutions across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. The role emphasizes AWS-centric architecture, serverless patterns, and strong software engineering leadership.

The ideal candidate will mentor distributed teams, drive delivery in a fast-paced environment, and balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural strategy.