Remote Tech Lead - Architecture & Microservices

First Citizens Bank; Scottsdale (AZ); 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 remote role with location restrictions to AX, NC, NJ, TX.

The role focuses on hands-on engineering leadership, architectural decision-making, and mentoring engineers to deliver scalable digital banking capabilities. The ideal candidate will review code, contribute production code, and collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and senior technology

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering enterprise-scale applications.
• 2+ years in a Technical Lead, Senior Engineer, or equivalent leadership role.

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 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 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 with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Scrum Masters to deliver business value.
• Participate in backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, and release planning.
• Ensure non-functional requirements are understood and prioritized.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and technical integrations.
• Support large-scale initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Champion automated testing, quality engineering practices, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Event-Driven Architecture

Microservices

Distributed systems

Secure development

Kafka

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Angular

React

TypeScript

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join the Personal & Business Banking Digital Engineering organization. This is a remote role with location restrictions to AX, NC, NJ, TX.

The role focuses on hands-on engineering leadership, architectural decision-making, and mentoring engineers to deliver scalable digital banking capabilities. The ideal candidate will review code, contribute production code, and collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and senior technology