Flagstar Bank

Distinguished Engineer

Flagstar Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $195,132 - $341,481 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformPython

About the role

  • Lead complex enterprise-wide architecture design and validation for strategic platforms (cloud-native, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, etc.) with an eye toward resiliency, scalability, and auditability.
  • Identify and remediate architectural risk vectors in collaboration with InfoSec, Risk, and Control partners; ensure regulatory and audit readiness is embedded into technical patterns from inception.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and partner across the CTO, CISO, Risk, Delivery, and Architecture teams.
  • Evangelize technical excellence, drive reuse, and reduce duplication and entropy across programs.
  • Identify architectural bottlenecks and design accelerators that deliver measurable uplift in time-to-market, developer productivity, and security posture.
  • Partner with Service Delivery leadership to embed engineering standards and observability patterns into the operating model to improve operational maturity and customer experience.
  • Represent architecture in key forums, working groups, and design review boards. Influence governance policy and engineering standards with a view toward compliance and modernization.
  • Uses independent judgement and discretion to make decisions, analyzes and resolves problems, performs special projects, and completes required compliance trainings.

Requirements

  • Education level required: Undergraduate Degree (4 years or equivalent) Computer Science or Engineering.
  • Minimum experience required: 15+ Years of deep, hands-on engineering experience across multiple technical domains (e.g., application development, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, data).
  • Proven leadership as a Distinguished Engineer, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Fellow in a Fortune 500 or large-scale financial institution.
  • Extensive experience with regulatory frameworks (OCC, FFIEC, SOX, GLBA) and the ability to design systems and architectures that comply from day one.
  • Previous experience being a change agent in collaborating with regulatory agencies
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and partner with senior executives across technology, security, risk, and operations.
  • Expertise in threat modeling, architectural risk analysis, and translating control frameworks into actionable engineering guidance.
  • Track record of shipping resilient, secure systems that operate at scale with minimal manual intervention.
  • Expert level coding ability in modern programming languages (Python, C#, Golang).
  • Expert level abilities within cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Familiarity with frameworks such as NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, COBIT, TOGAF, and SABSA.
  • Experience in a bank or regulated financial services environment with >$100B in assets (preferred).
  • Contributions to open-source projects, technical patents, or published whitepapers on enterprise-scale architecture, cybersecurity, or resiliency engineering (preferred).
  • Strong presentation and storytelling ability; skilled at distilling technical complexity for C-suite and board-level stakeholders.
  • Ability to facilitate communications to business stakeholders and interact effectively with all levels of management.
  • Willingness to travel up to 50%
Benefits
  • medical insurance
  • dental insurance
  • vision insurance
  • life insurance
  • disability insurance
  • comprehensive leave program

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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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