Tech Lead - Digital Banking Platforms

First Citizens; Raleigh, Austin, Phoenix (NC, TX, AZ); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead to shape our Consumer and Business Digital Banking platform. You will lead multiple engineering teams, drive API-first, event-driven architectures, and DevSecOps practices, and collaborate with enterprise architects.

The role is remote with location restrictions to AZ, NC, TX, and requires strong leadership in fintech environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field with 8+ years' experience in software engineering or related.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, and delivery teams.
• Experience in banking/fintech or regulated industries is a plus.

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

Cloud-native architectures

ReactJS/React Native/TypeScript

Java/Spring Boot

Kafka / Event-driven

Kubernetes / Terraform / IaC

CI/CD / GitOps / DevSecOps

OAuth2 / OIDC / SAML

Observability / OpenTelemetry / SRE

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Overview

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): AZ, NC, TX.

We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Technical Lead to help shape the future of our Consumer and Business Digital Banking platform. This role operates at the intersection of software engineering, architecture, platform strategy, and delivery execution. The successful candidate will lead multiple engineering teams in building modern customer experiences powered by composable frontend frameworks, cloud-native technologies, API-first architectures, event-driven systems, and engineering excellence principles.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Key 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.

Technical Leadership

• Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Mentor engineers and foster engineering ownership and accountability.
• Resolve complex technical challenges spanning multiple domains and teams.

Architecture & Platform Strategy

• Champion API-first, event-driven, and domain-oriented architectures.
• Design microservices-based solutions and integration strategies.
• Define target-state capabilities across identity, customer onboarding, customer profile, payments, notifications, entitlements, and digital engagement.
• Partner with enterprise architecture teams to establish long-term platform standards.

Engineering Excellence

• Drive adoption of DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and SRE practices.
• Establish engineering metrics focused on quality, stability, velocity, and customer outcomes.
• Improve reliability, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree and 8 years' experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 12 years' experience in Technical work in Application Development, Server Administration, Information Security, or Engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years software engineering experience.
• 5+ years technical leadership experience in banking, fintech, payments, or regulated industries.
• Experience modernizing large-scale customer-facing digital platforms.
• Strong communication and executive stakeholder management skills.

Core Technical Skills

• Cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
• ReactJS, React Native, TypeScript and Microfrontends.
• Native Mobile development practices and SDK integrations.
• Java, Spring Boot, APIs, Microservices.
• Kafka and event-driven architectures.
• Kubernetes, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code.
• CI/CD, GitOps, DevSecOps.
• Identity and access management (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML).
• Observability, OpenTelemetry, SRE, platform reliability.

Additional Information

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.