Lead Software Platform Engineer Foundational Platform & Interoperability

Overview

Lead Software Platform Engineer Foundational Platform & Interoperability — Truist Financial, Charlotte, NC (office-centric; 5 days/week).

Location:

Charlotte, NC.

Employment Type:

Full Time.

Company: Truist Financial

Date Posted: 02/06/2026

• Design and deliver enterprise abstractions, automation frameworks, and declarative interoperability capabilities for Truist's next-generation software delivery ecosystem.
• Build reusable platform services and establish manifest-driven, policy-as-code, orchestration, and lifecycle automation foundations to enable teams to integrate, deliver, and operate software with consistency, resilience, and auditability.
• Apply a software engineering mindset to platform problems, build scalable internal products, and create connective tissue to unify federated engineering teams.
• Establish and evolve interoperability patterns (automated change controls, standardized integration contracts, golden-path onboarding, asset lifecycle intelligence, CI/CD abstraction layers, and cross-platform agentic automation).
• Turn platform capabilities into consumable products, reduce cognitive load for engineers, and enable a fully integrated ecosystem with clear contracts, automated governance, and platform-led consistency.

• Perform problem tracking, diagnosis, root-cause analysis, replication, troubleshooting, and resolution for highly complex issues.
• Oversee others who perform programming and debugging activities.
• Respond to issues in a timely manner by investigating incidents or service tickets.
• Provide technical consultation on challenging or unusual situations.
• Lead large, complex projects related to improving processes or support capabilities; may engage external vendors.
• Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend best practices.
• Mentor less experienced teammates to build technical expertise; may have people management responsibilities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and eight years of experience in development or production support, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Deep specialized and/or broad functional knowledge; ability to interpret business challenges and recommend best practices.
• Ability to lead complex projects and solve complex technical and business problems; sophisticated analytical skills.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders to adopt new perspectives.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field; 10+ years of experience building cloud-native platforms, automation frameworks, or distributed systems at enterprise scale.
• Strong hands-on programming experience in Java, Python, Node.js/Type Script.
• Expertise in modern API design and interoperability standards (RESTful, gRPC, OpenAPI/Swagger, protobuf); API governance, authentication/authorization patterns, policy enforcement, and security practices.
• Advanced data access and persistence experience (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, SQL Server; Mongo
  
  DB, Dynamo
  
  DB, Cosmos DB); schema migration tooling; performance optimization.
• Experience with messaging, streaming, event-driven patterns (Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, SQS/SNS, Azure Service Bus); event-driven architectures, schemas, and semantic delivery guarantees.
• Platform-grade resiliency and reliability engineering concepts; observability and telemetry (Open Telemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace); defined SLIs/SLOs and runbooks.
• Cloud, runtime, and platform orchestration expertise (Open Shift, Kubernetes, AWS); multi-tenant architectures and service mesh interoperability.
• Advanced testing expertise (unit, integration, contract, UI testing); security scanning; CI pipelines; test data management.
• Modern frontend engineering experience (Type Script/React, Angular, or Vue) is preferred but not required.
• Ability to operate as a platform engineer and interoperability architect across platform, product, and security domains.

• Sitting:
  Frequently (25% - 50%);
  Lifting up to 25 lbs;
  Visual/Audio/Speaking and manual dexterity for standard office equipment.
• Availability to work all scheduled hours, including overtime as directed; travel up to 25%.

General description of available benefits for eligible employees. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, retirement plans, and paid time off. Benefits eligibility varies by division and position.

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.