Senior Platform Architect & Technical Leader

Truist; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Truist is seeking a Lead Engineer in the United States to own complex platforms end-to-end, combining architecture and hands-on engineering with strong technical judgment. You will drive engineering standards, reliability, and scalability across multiple teams, delivering reference implementations to guide new products.

This individual contributor role requires deep architectural knowledge, collaboration with senior technology leadership, and the ability to shape technology strategy while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related field, or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in software development.
• Deep knowledge of multiple programming languages, software architecture, and design principles.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle, testing, deployment, and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Implements software architecture and engineering approaches for complex, high impact initiatives that support strategic goals set by executives and senior leadership and establishes technical plans for the area of responsibility.
• Adopts, refines, and promotes advanced software engineering standards, practices, and governance mechanisms within the domain, enabling multiple teams to improve quality, reliability, and delivery outcomes.
• Partners with senior technology leadership, product, and architecture teams to shape technology strategy for the domain, providing deep technical insight and proposing solution patterns that influence roadmaps and priorities.
• Leads the end-to-end technical design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available software solutions, delivering reference implementations that inform new products and platforms.
• Resolves complex technical issues in the area of responsibility, designing innovative architectures and performance, reliability, and scalability improvements that advance business objectives.
• Provides technical leadership, guidance, coaching, and training to engineers across teams, raising the technical bar through reviews, design sessions, and knowledge sharing activities.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and research relevant to the domain, building prototypes and solution concepts that provide measurable input into new products, features, or capabilities.
• Contributes directly to long-term technical plans for the area of responsibility through well reasoned recommendations, design proposals, and implementation experience.
• Leads large, complex projects and processes, coordinating technical work across multiple teams to ensure cohesive, high-quality outcomes.
• Works independently with substantial autonomy, demonstrating technical innovation while balancing risk, and making engineering decisions that meaningfully impact results for the division.

Skills

Software architecture

Design principles

SDLC understanding

Testing

Deployment

Security practices

Programming languages

Architectural leadership

Technical coaching

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree (preferred)

Tools

Cloud-native architectures

Microservices

Container orchestration

DevOps

Job description

Truist is seeking a Lead Engineer in the United States to own complex platforms end-to-end, combining architecture and hands-on engineering with strong technical judgment. You will drive engineering standards, reliability, and scalability across multiple teams, delivering reference implementations to guide new products.

This individual contributor role requires deep architectural knowledge, collaboration with senior technology leadership, and the ability to shape technology strategy while