Software Engineer Consultant - Community Association Banking Technology (Remote)

This is a remote role that may be hired in several markets across the United States.

The Community Association Banking Technology team is growing, and seeking a Software Engineer Consultant to join us.

The Developer Consultant plays a critical role in creating and maintaining the Strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery. The Developer consultant role is to plan, design, develop and launch efficient systems in support of the core organizational functions.

This individual will utilize effective communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate/resolve issues, opportunities, or problems to maximize the benefit of IT and Business needs.

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.

• Keeps up to speed on emerging technologies and champions the application of new frameworks, approaches and/or methodologies with the solutions delivered to business problems.
• Develops a Technical strategy with key technical stack identified and areas of improvement based on resiliency assessment efforts for the payment application
• Serves as a trusted advisor to leadership and business partners in the formation and adoption of technical strategies
• Recognized as the leading resource within the department for their field of expertise of software application development, data, testing, and technical infrastructure across multiple platforms within their business domain
• Applies overarching, advanced technical knowledge/skills to ensure quality, integration and governance across multiple application environments that may include all of the following: legacy/mainframe; virtualized or containerized web services and platforms (internal and external cloud); mobile solutions
• Resolves complex technical problems across products using a DevSecOps approach, researches industry best practices and conducts proof-of-concepts
• Uses expertise in technical best practices and applies critical analysis to determine/consult on the non-functional requirements, performance bottlenecks, monitoring, and resilience needs of highly-available applications and services within their field of expertise
• Applies a wide application of complex principles, theories, and concepts in computer science for software engineering solutions

• Provide guidance to less experienced associates in the Scrum Team on Code Quality, DevOps practices and key deliverables.
• Supports productions systems by resolving complicated issues and ensuring ongoing functionality.
• Provides 24/7 on call rotations.

Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience in Software Application Development and Maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of experience in Software Application Development and Maintenance

Preferred Area of Experience: up to 6 years' experience with the following:

• Preferred Skill(s):
• Micro Services Architecture
• Extensive Spring Framework experience with the following projects:
• Spring Boot 3.X
• Spring Cloud
• Spring Security
• Spring Data JPA
• Front end UI experience with Angular/TypeScript
• Database experience with Microsoft SQL Server
• Hibernate and Liquibase a plus
• Java 11 or 17
• Build tools, Ant, Gradle and Azure DevOps
• Java and Spring framework and Spring boot technologies, JPA, Hibernate, Azure DevOps; SQL Scripting
• Experience with Azure DevOps, ServiceNow or other information technology service ticketing systems, Proven ability to resolve conflicting situations, to move process and people forward, In depth knowledge and experience with System Life Cycle Development methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.

This job posting is expected to remain active for 30 days from the initial posting date listed above. If it is necessary to extend this deadline, the posting will remain active as appropriate. Job postings may come down early due to business need or a high volume of applicants.

If hired in North Carolina, the base pay for this position is generally between $130,000 and $198,000. If hired in Arizona, the base pay for this position is generally between $142,000 and $217,000. Actual starting base pay will be determined based on skills, experience, location, and other non-discriminatory factors permitted by law. For some roles, total compensation may also include variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other awards as outlined in the offer of employment.

First Citizens benefits programs are designed to meet our associates where they are in life. Full-time associates (20+ hours) are offered a comprehensive benefits program, with customized offerings, including those designed to support families, however defined. More information regarding our benefits offerings can be found here: https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.