Remote Senior Technical Lead — Cloud & Microservices

First Citizens Bank; Morris Township (NJ); Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join our Personal & Business Banking Digital Engineering organization in a remote-capable role limited to AX, NC, NJ, and TX. This hands-on leadership position connects Agile pods with engineering leadership, shaping scalable, secure digital banking platforms at scale.

The ideal candidate will review PRs, contribute production code, mentor engineers, and influence architectural strategy while staying deeply involved in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of delivering enterprise-scale applications.
• 2+ years of experience serving as a Technical Lead, Senior Engineer, Lead Developer, or equivalent technical leadership role.
• Deep understanding of modern software architecture and distributed systems.
• Strong experience leading technical discussions and influencing engineering decisions across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across one or more Agile product pods delivering customer-facing digital banking capabilities.
• Drive engineering excellence and promote modern software development practices.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact between development teams and engineering leadership.
• Translate architectural direction into actionable delivery plans and technical implementation strategies.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and platform roadmaps.
• Facilitate technical discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decision-making.
• Identify and proactively address technical risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies.
• Remain actively involved in software design, development, troubleshooting, and delivery activities.
• Contribute high-quality production code across backend services, APIs, integrations, and digital platforms.
• Lead by example through hands-on participation in complex technical implementations.
• Partner with engineers to resolve critical production issues and performance challenges.
• Drive adoption of coding standards, engineering best practices, and reusable design patterns.
• Review and approve technical designs, pull requests, and implementation approaches.
• Design scalable, resilient, cloud-ready, and event-driven solutions.
• Collaborate with enterprise and domain architects to define future-state architectures.
• Lead technical solutioning for new digital banking products, customer journeys, and platform enhancements.
• Promote API-first and event-driven architecture principles across the organization.
• Drive microservices adoption, integration strategies, and system modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities for innovation.
• Work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, and Engineers to deliver business value.
• Participate in backlog refinement, technical estimation, sprint planning, and release planning activities.
• Ensure technical requirements and non-functional requirements are understood and appropriately prioritized.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and technical integrations.
• Support successful execution of large-scale initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Champion automated testing, quality engineering practices, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with Quality Engineering teams to improve automation coverage and product quality.
• Drive improvements in application reliability, performance, scalability, and observability.
• Promote shift-left testing and DevSecOps principles throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Implement and monitor engineering metrics focused on quality, delivery, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor and coach software engineers across varying experience levels.
• Foster a culture of engineering ownership, learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Help teams navigate complex technical decisions and implementation challenges.
• Influence technical direction through collaboration rather than authority.
• Act as a trusted advisor to engineering managers, architects, and senior technology leaders.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Technical leadership

Modern software architecture

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Hands-on coding

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT or equivalent

HS Diploma + 12 years of technical experience

Tools

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Terraform

SonarQube

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join our Personal & Business Banking Digital Engineering organization in a remote-capable role limited to AX, NC, NJ, and TX. This hands-on leadership position connects Agile pods with engineering leadership, shaping scalable, secure digital banking platforms at scale.

The ideal candidate will review PRs, contribute production code, mentor engineers, and influence architectural strategy while staying deeply involved in