Tech Lead – Digital Banking Platforms

First Citizens Bank

. Lead technical direction across multiple Agile product teams delivering customer-facing digital banking capabilities .

Posted 11/2/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading technical direction for Agile product teams, focusing on scalable and secure digital banking solutions. Proficient in modernizing platforms and driving adoption of DevSecOps practices while mentoring engineers and fostering accountability.

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Technical Leadership in BankingCloud-Native ArchitecturesMicroservices and APIsDevSecOps and CI/CD PracticesObservability and Platform Reliability

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringApplication DevelopmentJavaSpring BootReactJSTypeScriptMicroservicesKubernetesTerraformIdentity and Access Management

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationExecutive Stakeholder ManagementMentoring

Tools & Technologies

KafkaOpenTelemetrySREInfrastructure as CodeGitOps

Industry Keywords

Digital BankingFintechPaymentsRegulated IndustriesAgile

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesReactReact NativeSpringSpring BootSpringBootTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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
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
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
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program
Benefits information available at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits