Lead Software Engineer

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): NC and VA.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank, is the bank of the world's most innovative companies and investors. SVB provides commercial and private banking to individuals and companies in the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity, venture capital and premium wine industries. SVB operates in centers of innovation throughout the United States, serving the unique needs of its dynamic clients with deep sector expertise, insights, and connections. SVB's parent company, First Citizens Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCNCA) is a top 20 U.S. financial institution with more than $200 billion in assets. First Citizens Bank, Member FDIC. Learn more at svb.com.

We are seeking a hands-on, technically strong Lead Software Engineer to guide the design and development of high-performance, mission-critical FX (Foreign Exchange) systems. This role requires deep expertise in financial systems architecture, strong leadership skills, and a passion for building resilient and scalable software. You will lead a team of developers and collaborate closely with product, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver next-generation FX trading and risk solutions. The ideal candidate should have the necessary skills and experience to provide technical guidance, estimation of efforts, understanding and deciding upon the optimal technology solution to achieve the desired business needs, day to day application support, should be able to navigate differing levels of gray/unknowns, and have excellent communication skills with other IT management levels, individual contributors, and business stakeholders. They must be able to move at a rapid rate of execution to deliver requests and take advantage of any opportunities as they present themselves and navigate through any resource constraints. They must have both the short- and long-term strategic view when deciding on the best technical approach. They must be able to develop code and effectively oversee distributed development team members.

This role will be responsible for all software aspects within the team including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing and supporting them.

• Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability
• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of FX trading platforms, including pricing engines, trade execution and settlement workflows
• 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. The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned
• Supervise release processes (some after-hours/weekend work may be required)

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Current contractor/contingent worker for First Citizens Bank
• Knowledge of First Citizens Bank systems and processes
• Technical leadership experience for medium to large sized enterprise projects
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot production issues.
• 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 Java/J2EE, Restful Webservices, Node, React
• Experience building SpringBoot Microservices
• Preferred experience on public API development and using API Gateway like APiGEE
• File-based transfer applications (e.g. Sterling, SFTP, etc)
• Experience with design and implementation of messaging/middleware technologies (e.g., Kafka, MQ)
• 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

Nice to have:

• Experience with FX or Payments Technology solutions using products ION's WSS , 360T , SWIFT integration or similar platforms
• Banking/Payments Industry knowledge with experience delivering on large modernization/transformative efforts

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.

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