Engineering Lead (Banking Platform &amp Cloud Modernization)

Engineering Lead (Banking Platform & Cloud Modernization)

Long Beach CA (Hybrid)

US Citizen or GC only

W2 work

Overview

Were seeking an experienced lead engineer based in Long Beach CA for a hands-on role to stabilize and support our existing on-premises Microsoft platform while driving the modernization and build-out of secure cloud-native services on Microsoft Azure. This role blends delivery leadership technical depth and strong operational discipline in a regulated environment.

Duties & Responsibilities

Architect develop and maintain scalable full-stack applications React/ and Azure (Python a plus).

Lead technical decision-making and provide expertise on best practices architecture and modern software development methodologies.

Conduct code reviews ensuring high code quality security performance and maintainability.

Collaborate with cross-functional partners (product design security operations) to define design and ship new capabilities safely.

Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers fostering a culture of growth and technical excellence.

Support production systems through incident response (triage containment root cause analysis) and continuous improvements.

Monitor and improve application performance optimizing database queries front-end rendering and API interactions.

Ensure security best practices including authentication authorization secrets management and data protection.

Work with DevOps to implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployments with strong environment discipline (dev/test/uat/prod).

Stay current with emerging technologies and advocate for adoption where appropriate in a banking context.

Core Technical Requirements

On-Prem Microsoft Platform Leadership (Must Have)

.NET / C# experience with ability to debug production issues safely

SQL Server fundamentals (query tuning indexing awareness safe performance fixes)

Windows Server IIS hosting (deployments certificates configuration)

Identity fundamentals (Active Directory service accounts group policy realities)

Comfortable with change control release windows and production-first engineering practices

Monitoring/logging discipline (audit-friendly logs tracing metrics)

Cloud Platform & Architecture (Microsoft Azure)

Experience designing and delivering solutions on Azure

Azure core services: App Service Functions Storage Key Vault (AKS optional)

Networking basics: VNets Private Endpoints DNS firewall concepts

Hybrid connectivity awareness (VPN/ExpressRoute concepts)

Identity and access: Entra ID (Azure AD) RBAC Managed Identities

Resiliency patterns: health checks retries timeouts failure isolation

DevOps & Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions

Infrastructure as Code: Bicep or Terraform

Automated deployments with clear environment separation (dev/test/uat/prod)

Security gates: SAST dependency scanning artifact integrity secrets handling

Modern Engineering Patterns

Build cloud-ready APIs (12-factor configuration clean layering safe deployments)

Event-driven integration patterns (Service Bus / Event Grid concepts)

Design for observability (Application Insights structured logging traceability)

Data modernization awareness (managed SQL options caching read scaling)

Nice to Have (Bonus Skills)

React TypeScript experience (Material UI Tailwind)

/ Express TypeScript experience

PostgreSQL experience

Banking / regulated industry experience (audit expectations SDLC controls)

Location

This role is based in Long Beach CA with a hybrid expectation (on-site 3 days a week).

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