Senior Technical Engineer: Build Scalable Banking Tech

Fifth Third; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Incentive compensation plan

Job summary

Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, OH seeks a Lead Technical Engineer to drive delivery of critical features within cross-functional Agile teams. You will mentor engineers, coordinate deployments, and ensure reliability across environments, while adhering to security and regulatory standards.

The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership, collaboration, and continuous improvement to support the bank's roadmap and customer-focused services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technology field or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Six+ years of engineering or IT work experience relevant to the position.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Willingness to work in a highly‑collaborative environment.
• Solid understanding of modern software development practices, tools, and hardware technologies.
• Solid understanding of IT security best practices.
• Experience with test environments and configuration management.
• Experience with QA, Production Support, Development
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall teams.
• Experience with CI tools.
• Experience with Environments and Release Management for large scale transformations.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain new features and capabilities while continuously improving the quality of our technical products and services.
• Build and share technical expertise with your Agile team and other members of the organization.
• Follow industry and organizational best practices and standards, and participate in company communities of practice to continuously refine and communicate them.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
• Achieve operational excellence by automating processes and creating maintainable, supportable, and testable solutions.
• Drive and coordinate the deployment of code and hardware changes while ensuring the consistency and availability of environments to support the existing roadmap.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Agile/Waterfall

Security practices

mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in tech

Tools

CI/CD tools

Environments management

Release management

QA support tools

Job description

Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, OH seeks a Lead Technical Engineer to drive delivery of critical features within cross-functional Agile teams. You will mentor engineers, coordinate deployments, and ensure reliability across environments, while adhering to security and regulatory standards.

The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership, collaboration, and continuous improvement to support the bank's roadmap and customer-focused services.