Citizens
Manager, Software Engineer
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Job Description
Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Manager, Software Engineer for its Johnston, Rhode Island location. This role is responsible for delivering high impact technology solutions across the Private Banking and Payments platforms. The position involves overseeing the building and operation of mission-critical systems that support customer experience, money movement, payment processing, fraud controls, and regulatory compliance. The Manager will lead, develop, and retain high-performing engineering teams responsible for Private Banking and Payments capabilities, including client experiences, backend services, integrations, and data flows. They will own engineering outcomes end-to-end, from problem framing and design through delivery, production stability, and continuous improvement. This role requires close partnership with Product, Architecture, Risk, Security, and Business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient technical solutions. The Manager will drive technical strategy and execution for systems involving payments, entitlements, approvals, transaction workflows, customer data, and integration with core banking, payment rails, and third-party providers. Establishing and enforcing strong engineering practices, including code quality, documentation, automated testing, release discipline, and operational readiness, is crucial. The role emphasizes predictable, incremental delivery while balancing speed, quality, and regulatory obligations, optimizing investments by aligning team capacity to the highest value work. Identifying, assessing, and reducing technical, operational, and security risks throughout the software lifecycle, applying industry best practices for financial systems handling sensitive data and funds movement, is a key responsibility. Collaboration with peer engineering leaders to ensure seamless integration across platforms and a cohesive end-to-end client experience is expected. The Manager will also drive the adoption of AI-native tools and services to more rapidly deliver solutions and act as a visible engineering leader, coaching engineers, setting clear expectations, and building a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field and 4 years of experience as a Software Engineer, Technology Lead, or related position designing and developing applications.
- Designing and developing applications and microservices using the NodeJS technology stack and NPM packages, including ExpressJS, Fastify, Mongoose, MongoDB-native-driver, TypeORM, Joi, BreeJS, Lodash, Passport, NodeMailer, and AWS-SDK;
- Creating and publishing reusable custom libraries to handle and execute internal business logic and support the development experience;
- Utilizing JavaScript with NodeJS runtime environment, including, EventLoop, Thread Pools (worker nodes and clustering), Stream Operations, and Asynchronous operations based on Promises and Observables;
- Utilizing TypeScript for back-end and front-end development, including available Static Types, Object Oriented Programming, Compilation Environment, and Generics;
- Creating flexible and scalable back-end server systems using Java, multithreading, and streaming, asynchronous operations;
- Utilizing the Spring technology stack, including SpringBoot, Hibernate, Eureka Discovery Server, Zuul API Gateway, Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring MVC, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, and JDBC;
- Utilizing shell scripting languages, including Python, Ruby, PHP, and Bash to create script applications, test scripts, network scripts, and infrastructure scripts;
- Utilizing API paradigms, including REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and RPC;
- Utilizing databases paradigms, including Document (Mongodb, DynamoDB, FireBase), Relations (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle 11g, MariaDB, Aurora), Key-Value (Redis Cache, Memcached), and Wide Column (Cassandra);
- Integrating messaging and data stream systems, including KAFKA, Confluent, RabbitMQ, Red Hat AMQ, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon Kinesis, and Active MQ;
- Utilizing front-end frameworks, including Angular, React, and Vue, to create Single Page Applications;
- Utilizing Amazon Web Services, including EC2, AWS Lambda, RDS, IAM, Elastic Cache, S3, Glacier, EBS, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, SES, CloudWatch, and Route53 to create cloud native microservices on AWS infrastructure;
- Utilizing Continues Deployment & Continues Integration processes to create and deploy highly available, robust and scalable applications by using Docker, Jenkins and RedHat OpenShift.
Skills & Technologies
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Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Location
Johnston, RI
Posted
1 day ago
Country
US