Lead Software Engineer - Java (Remote)

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead software development for its Corporate Credit Card delivery team. The role oversees solution design, development, testing, support, team coaching, and maintenance of systems across Corporate Credit Cards, Risk, and Merchant Services.

Responsibilities:

• The Lead Software Engineer will be responsible for all software aspects within the domain including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing and support
• Partner with the business and architects to design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability
• Lead multiple tech leads who oversee SCRUM teams within the domain providing coaching, and an escalation path for troubleshooting
• Drives domain wide change initiatives improving quality, speed, and throughput of the shop
• Oversee proactive maintenance on our existing Iaas/SaaS and on premise applications within the Digital, Cards, Risk, and Merchant Services to ensure our mission critical systems remain stable, are able to scale as our business grows, and remain fit-for-purpose
• Coordinate and assist with troubleshooting of code defects, data errors and configuration problems to determine the origin of application error
• Know how to support Business critical/ complex applications
• Exercises Judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
• Drive departmental best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards
• Show expertise in designing and developing real-time integrations, file-based integrations and be able to optimize the use of database level processing
• Demonstrate empathy with developer and poses an innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail
• Have a deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code
• Always work to improve oneself and constructively support the team around them

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
• Banking experience is preferred, but not necessary
• Intermediate to Strong experience designing or modifying modern microservice based systems
• Advanced interpersonal skills including communication and negotiation
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Java 11+
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Standard Design Patterns such as Factories, Command, Facade, Adapter, and more
• Advanced knowledge and experience with OOD/OOA
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks
• Advanced knowledge and experience with REST and APIs
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Unit Test and Mocking frameworks
• Advanced knowledge and experience with git
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Postman
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Scrum and Agile
• Advanced knowledge and experience with wikis
• Automation Testing Framework Development
• React UI Development
• Gitlab Pipeline Development