Remote Java Tech Lead - AWS & Cloud Architecture

First Citizens Bank; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits program

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to lead design, development, and support of secure, scalable cloud-native solutions across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. The ideal candidate will have deep AWS expertise, serverless, event-driven, and containerized architectures, and strong leadership to mentor distributed teams.

Responsibilities include architecture leadership, coding, project management, and ensuring reliability, security, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering and architecture experience.
• Experience designing, developing, and supporting cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Strong hands-on development experience with Java, Spring Boot, and/or Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Lead all software engineering activities within the team, including architecture, design, development, testing, releases, and production support.
• Mentor and guide team members; communicate performance expectations and provide technical direction.
• Drive project estimates, scope, and stakeholder alignment for complex initiatives.
• Ensure secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise solutions through collaboration and architecture decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Problem Solving

Team Management

Cloud-Native Design

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

AWS Lambda

Amazon ECS

AWS Step Functions

Amazon SQS

Amazon SNS

Amazon S3

DynamoDB

RDS

IAM

KMS

Transfer Family

Terraform

Docker

OpenShift

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to lead design, development, and support of secure, scalable cloud-native solutions across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. The ideal candidate will have deep AWS expertise, serverless, event-driven, and containerized architectures, and strong leadership to mentor distributed teams.

Responsibilities include architecture leadership, coding, project management, and ensuring reliability, security, and