Tech Lead, Digital Banking Platform — Remote

First Citizens Bank; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead to shape our Consumer and Business Digital Banking platform. This remote role leads multiple engineering teams and drives architecture, platform strategy, and delivery in a cloud-native, API-first environment.

You will mentor engineers, define roadmaps, and champion DevSecOps, observability, and scalable microservices. Familiarity with React, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, and domain-oriented designs is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 8 years' experience in Technical work in Application Development, Server Administration, Information Security, or Engineering.
• 10+ years software engineering experience.
• 5+ years technical leadership experience in banking, fintech, payments, or regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction across multiple Agile product teams delivering customer-facing digital banking capabilities.
• Serve as the primary technical advisor for engineering managers, architects, product leaders, and delivery teams.
• Drive delivery of scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available banking solutions.
• Guide technical roadmaps, platform evolution, and modernization initiatives.

Skills

ReactJS

React Native

TypeScript

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

API-first

Event-driven architecture

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

DevSecOps

OAuth2/OIDC/SAML

Observability

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead to shape our Consumer and Business Digital Banking platform. This remote role leads multiple engineering teams and drives architecture, platform strategy, and delivery in a cloud-native, API-first environment.

You will mentor engineers, define roadmaps, and champion DevSecOps, observability, and scalable microservices. Familiarity with React, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, and domain-oriented designs is expected.