Senior Platform Product Architect & DX Lead

First Citizens Bank; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 170,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank seeks a Senior Technical Leader for Product & Experience to own platform architecture, engineering standards, and integration patterns. This remote role covers multiple markets across the United States, driving reusable engineering experiences and enterprise IDP capabilities.

Ideal candidate designs scalable developer platforms, guides platform integrations, and leads developer experience engineering with strong technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 10 years of experience in Technical Hands-On Leader of Cloud Teams OR High School Diploma or GED and 14 years of experience in Technical Hands-On Leader of Cloud Teams
• 8+ years systems engineering or platform engineering
• Enterprise architecture leadership; integration architecture; mentoring senior engineers
• IDP Architecture
• Platform Engineering
• Service Catalog Architecture
• Golden Paths
• Platform APIs
• GitOps
• IaC
• Platform Automation
• Integration Architecture

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture design for scalable developer platforms and integration ecosystems.
• Lead platform integrations, security, observability, and automation patterns.
• Guide developer experience tooling and golden-path engineering across enterprise.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers.

Skills

Platform Architecture

Platform Integrations

Developer Experience Engineering

Technical Leadership

Event-driven architecture

Kubernetes

Observability

Policy-as-Code

AI-enabled engineering

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

GitOps

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Observability

Job description

First Citizens Bank seeks a Senior Technical Leader for Product & Experience to own platform architecture, engineering standards, and integration patterns. This remote role covers multiple markets across the United States, driving reusable engineering experiences and enterprise IDP capabilities.

Ideal candidate designs scalable developer platforms, guides platform integrations, and leads developer experience engineering with strong technical leadership.