Lead Software Engineer - Direct Transactions

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to provide technology solutions and integration services in Payments and Money movement. The ideal candidate will lead all software aspects within the team, including research, design, development, and support, while ensuring the delivery of high-quality technical solutions that meet user needs.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability
• Provide development leadership (Architecture, Strategy, Design, Development) on our Client facing Payments platforms
• Drive department best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards
• Innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail
• Deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code
• Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore
• Drive to learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty
• Always working to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you
• Drive technical designs to consensus and approval by Architecture Review Team
• Design and develop enterprise solutions for specific business need that provide frameworks, interfaces and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements
• Perform impact analysis of proposed changes on existing architecture, capabilities, system priorities, and technology solutions; looks for additional solution options or trade-offs
• Identifies cost/benefit implications of proposed solutions (e.g. people, processes, technology, strategy, finance)
• Creates and maintains application architecture and related assets
• Be the go-to person for development team on architecture discussions
• Supervise release processes (some after-hours/weekend work may be required)

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance
• Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience
• Technical leadership experience for medium to large sized enterprise projects with strong communication, driving technical strategy and roadmap
• Ability to moderate, analyze and troubleshoot production issues on both on Prem and vendor solutions
• Must have Working knowledge on AWS Cloud Infrastructure, Docker, OpenShift
• Strong proficiency and hands on experience in Design and Development of distributed systems
• Development experience with Node, React, Java/J2EE, Restful Webservices
• Experience building Spring Boot Microservices
• Preferred experience on public API development and using API Gateway like APIGEE
• File-based transfer applications (e.g. Sterling, SFTP, etc.)
• Strong proficiency and hands on experience in Design and Development RDBMS architecture and performance tuning systems like Oracle/MS- SQL/SQL Server and NoSQL databases
• Worked on Agile projects and has complete knowledge of day-to-day Agile routines
• Experience with Payment Technology, ISO 20022, file formats such as NACHA, PAIN, BAI2, CAMT, Real Time Payments, SWIFT integration, or similar platforms
• Banking/Payments Industry knowledge with experience delivering on large modernization/transformative efforts