Remote Hands-On Technical Lead, Cloud & Microservices

First Citizens Bank; Arizona; Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join the Personal & Business Banking Digital Engineering organization. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on building software, guiding architecture decisions, and mentoring teams to deliver scalable digital banking solutions.

The role requires strong engineering expertise, collaboration with Product Owners, Engineers, and Architects, and a ability to influence technical strategy across pods while maintaining security and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent with 8+ years of technical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering delivering enterprise-scale apps.
• 2+ years in a Technical Lead or equivalent leadership role.
• Strong understanding of modern architecture and distributed systems.
• Proven ability to lead technical discussions and influence decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across Agile pods delivering customer-facing digital banking capabilities.
• Drive engineering excellence and modern software practices.
• Translate architectural direction into actionable delivery plans.
• Design scalable, cloud-ready, and event-driven solutions.
• Collaborate with architects to define future-state architectures.
• Promote API-first and event-driven architecture across teams.
• Lead microservices adoption and modernization initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and influence across teams.
• Review designs and pull requests to ensure quality.
• Resolve production issues and optimize performance.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Event-Driven Architecture

Apache Kafka

Microservices

Distributed systems

Secure development

Leadership influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

SonarQube

Infrastructure as Code

Containerization

Cloud-native engineering

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join the Personal & Business Banking Digital Engineering organization. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on building software, guiding architecture decisions, and mentoring teams to deliver scalable digital banking solutions.

The role requires strong engineering expertise, collaboration with Product Owners, Engineers, and Architects, and a ability to influence technical strategy across pods while maintaining security and