Senior Manager IT - Digital Channels Experience Engineering (Remote, NC)

First Citizens Bank is a financial institution seeking a Senior Manager IT - Digital Channels Experience Engineering to lead customer-facing experiences across web and mobile platforms. This role focuses on enhancing UI delivery, ensuring accessibility, and managing engineering excellence within a regulated environment.

Responsibilities:

• IT Strategy - collaborate with senior leadership and stakeholders to understand business needs. Partners with senior management to develop and implement IT strategies aligned with the company's business goal's and objectives
• Project and Product Management Oversight - Identifies future needs and trends. Provides direction and oversight to IT projects and products. Assigns project tasks, drives project schedules, product releases, and conveys results or updates to the appropriate parties
• Managerial Functions - Establishes and monitors expectations to achieve company and department goals. Makes appropriate changes to IT policies, standards, procedures, and efficiencies in order to meet objectives. Manages the performance, training, and evaluation of assigned staff. Maximizes department achievements by providing professional development. Ensures bank needs are met through prioritization and resource allocation
• Technical Expertise - Serves as a technical expert and strategic leader to senior management, associates, and business units. Ensures that team activities comply with all appropriate configuration, change controls, and security standards. Participates in business meetings and special projects to provide insight on end-user needs. Keeps abreast of industry trends. Identifies and holds accountable vendors in support of system updates and maintenance

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience in Applications development, analysis or engineering OR High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of experience in Applications development, analysis or engineering
• 10+ years leading multi-channel engineering teams
• Deep React.js & Flutter experience
• Strong understanding of Backbase/Q2/Temenos accelerators
• Expertise in responsive design & component architecture
• Solid knowledge of API consumption patterns
• Experience leading cross-functional pods at scale
• Strong CI/CD for UI (Cypress, Detox, AppCenter)
• Hands-on experience with mobile app deployment pipelines
• Understanding of digital identity, session management, and security
• Experience scaling mobile/web apps to millions of MAU
• Banking domain knowledge (transactions, payments, servicing)
• Knowledge of Web Accessibility (WCAG)
• Experience with design systems (Storybook, Figma)
• Experience with hybrid orchestrators & UI modelers