Lead Software Engineer - Enterprise Payments (Remote)

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to lead the design, development, integration, and support of secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. The role requires expertise in AWS cloud technologies and software engineering, along with responsibilities that include mentoring distributed teams and driving delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Leading all software engineering activities within the team, including architecture, design, development, testing, releases, and production support

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience in Technical work in Application Development, Server Administration, Information Security, or Engineering OR High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of experience in Technical work in Application Development, Server Administration, Information Security, or Engineering
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering and architecture experience
• Proven experience designing, developing, and supporting cloud-native applications on AWS
• Strong expertise with: AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SQS and SNS, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, AWS IAM and KMS, AWS Transfer Family
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices
• Experience designing and implementing event-driven, microservices, and serverless architectures
• Strong hands-on development experience with Java, Spring Boot, and/or Node.js
• Experience with containerization technologies including Docker and OpenShift
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies
• Ability to build highly available, fault-tolerant, secure, and scalable enterprise solutions
• Proven experience leading development teams and driving technical architecture decisions
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
• AWS Certified Developer Associate
• Experience with payment processing, ACH, wire transfers, real-time payments, card processing, or other money movement platforms
• Experience with financial systems integrations and regulatory reporting solutions
• Experience with Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and enterprise observability platforms
• Experience leading cloud modernization and application transformation initiatives
• Experience in regulated financial services environments