Truist · 14 hours ago
Lead Software Platform Engineer-Foundational Platform & Interoperability
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
8+ years expTruist is a financial services company seeking a Lead Software Platform Engineer for their Foundational Platform & Interoperability team. The role involves designing and delivering enterprise abstractions and automation frameworks to enhance software delivery, focusing on building reusable platform services and ensuring teams can integrate and operate software efficiently.
BankingFinanceFinancial Services
No H1B
Responsibilities
Designing and delivering the enterprise abstractions, automation frameworks, and declarative interoperability capabilities that power Truist’s next generation software delivery ecosystem
Building reusable platform services, establishing the manifest-driven, policy-as-code, orchestration, and lifecycle automation foundations that enable teams to integrate, deliver, and operate software with consistency, resilience, and auditability
Establishing and evolving core interoperability patterns such as automated change controls, standardized integration contracts, golden-path onboarding, asset lifecycle intelligence, CI/CD abstraction layers, and cross-platform agentic automation
Ensuring teams can build and ship with velocity while meeting regulatory expectations
Turning platform capabilities into consumable products, reducing cognitive load for engineers, and enabling a fully integrated ecosystem where services, systems, and teams interoperate through clear contracts, automated governance, and platform-led consistency
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree and eight years of experience in development or production support or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Deep specialized and/or broad functional knowledge
Sound understanding of business and organizational strategies and processes
Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices
Ability to lead complex projects
Sophisticated analytical skills and the ability to solve complex technical and business problems
Ability to influence others at senior levels to adopt a new perspective
Preferred
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field, with 10+ years of experience building cloud native platforms, automation frameworks, or distributed systems at enterprise scale
Strong hands-on programming experience in Java (core platform services, integration frameworks), Python (automation, orchestration, agentic workflows), Node.js/TypeScript (API gateways, developer-facing services, UI integration)
Expertise in modern API design & interoperability standards, including designing and documenting RESTful and gRPC APIs using OpenAPI/Swagger and protobuf, consistent versioning, backward compatibility, and contract governance, authentication/authorization patterns (OAuth2.1/OIDC, JWT), policy enforcement (RBAC/ABAC), rate limiting, quotas, and zerotrust boundaries, strong API hygiene: idempotency, request validation, pagination, content negotiation, and RFC 7807 error standards
Advanced data access and persistence experience, including relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL systems (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB), schema migration tooling (Flyway, Liquibase), transaction modeling, indexing strategies, read/write separation, query optimization, distributed caching patterns with Redis/Memcached (readthrough, writethrough/behind, cacheaside, TTL strategy, stampede prevention)
Deep expertise in messaging, streaming, and integration patterns, including Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS, Azure Service Bus, event-driven architecture, Sagas, Outbox patterns, Debezium CDC, schema governance using Schema Registry / Avro, semantic delivery guarantees (exactly-once, at-least-once)
Platform-grade resiliency & reliability engineering, including timeouts, retries (jittered backoff), circuit breakers, bulkheads, hedging, load shedding, libraries and mesh capabilities: Resilience4j, Polly, Envoy, multi-AZ/region patterns, graceful degradation, compensation workflows, defining SLIs/SLOs, contributing to error budgets, performing chaos testing/fault injection
Cloud, runtime, and platform orchestration expertise, including OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container-native service design, AWS event-driven and serverless patterns (Lambda, EventBridge, SNS/SQS), multi-tenant platform architectures and service mesh–driven interoperability
Deep observability, telemetry, and operational analytics, including structured logging with correlation/trace IDs and PII-safe filtering, full-stack instrumentation with OpenTelemetry (metrics, traces, logs), metrics pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana and RED/USE methodology, Splunk and Dynatrace for distributed tracing, APM, log analytics, dashboards, alerting, and service health visualization, SLO-driven operational dashboards and runbooks
Comprehensive automated testing expertise, including unit, integration (Testcontainers), contract (Pact), functional/UI (Playwright/Cypress), mutation testing (PIT, Stryker), performance testing (k6, Gatling, Locust), security scanning (SAST/DAST/dependency scanning), smoke/canary testing and deterministic CI pipelines, test data management (seeded data, anonymized snapshots)
Modern frontend engineering experience (preferred but not required), including TypeScript and React (preferred), Angular, or Vue, state management (Redux, Zustand, NgRx, Pinia), OAuth2.1/OIDC/PKCE flows and secure client-side API consumption, performance best practices: code splitting, lazy loading, Lighthouse budgets, WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, component libraries (Storybook) and visual regression testing
Ability to operate as a platform engineer and interoperability architect, collaborating across platform, product, and security domains to define reusable abstractions, integration standards, and platform-led delivery patterns
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life insurance
Disability
Accidental death and dismemberment
Tax-preferred savings accounts
401k plan
10 days of vacation
10 sick days
Paid holidays
Defined benefit pension plan
Restricted stock units
Deferred compensation plan
Company
Truist
Truist is the sixth-largest commercial bank in the U.S.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2021-01-01Seed
Leadership Team
Michael Maguire
Chief Financial Officer
James Cordovana
SVP of Cloud Security Enterprise Architect
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