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Think BIG. Achieve More. At City National Bank of Florida, we invest in our people and the communities we serve. Join a team where ambitious careers and meaningful relationships thrive together. We’re entrepreneurs at heart—growing fast, making an impact, and shaping the future of banking in Florida. To learn more about City National Bank of Florida visit About Us!
Overview
The Lead Technology Resiliency Engineer is an IT-based technical individual contributor who engineers and validates the availability, recoverability, and resilience of technology supporting critical banking services. The role translates approved business RTOs, RPOs, and service requirements into technical recovery designs, dependency sequencing, data protection, automated procedures, and measurable test outcomes. It leads assigned engineering improvements with IT owners while partnering with Operational Resilience / Business Continuity on business priorities and validation.
Critical-service and technology dependency mapping
- Identify and maintain applications, infrastructure, data stores, integrations, identity services, networks, cloud platforms, hosting facilities, communications, support personnel, and third-party technology dependencies.
- Develop and validate business-to-technology dependency maps, upstream and downstream relationships, data flows, authentication and connectivity paths, recovery prerequisites, and sequencing.
- Define ServiceNow CMDB/CSDM resiliency data and relationship requirements; work with platform and data owners to validate accuracy and lifecycle maintenance.
Recovery objectives and technical feasibility
- Translate approved RTOs and RPOs into component-level requirements, recovery time budgets, data protection, and end-to-end sequencing; validate backup restoration, replication, database consistency, connectivity, and authentication.
- Measure achieved recovery times and recoverable data points in tests; document variances and coordinate corrective action with accountable IT owners.
- Document vendor commitments, integration constraints, escalation paths, and cloud or managed-service shared responsibilities; provide relevant findings to Operational Resilience and Third-Party Risk.
- Escalate feasibility and capability gaps for prioritization and authorized risk disposition. Do not independently approve or revise business recovery objectives or disruption tolerances.
Resiliency engineering and failure analysis
- Assess service architecture for single points of failure, hidden dependencies, capacity constraints, and recovery gaps; perform failure-mode and impact analysis.
- Design and implement assigned redundancy, fault-tolerance, recovery automation, failover/failback, and graceful-degradation improvements with platform and application owners.
- Develop and technically validate runbooks, scripts, restoration prerequisites, orchestration procedures, recovery-environment capacity, and configuration consistency.
- Validate recovery approaches for outages, data corruption, and cyber-related disruption with Cybersecurity and IT teams; recommend technical recovery triggers and actions under established incident procedures.
Monitoring And Observability Requirements
- Define telemetry, health and synthetic checks, capacity measures, service thresholds, alerts, and escalation triggers for critical technology dependencies.
- Identify coverage gaps and work with engineering and operations teams to implement and validate observability; accountable operations teams retain day-to-day monitoring.
Assessment, testing, and reporting
- Assess new or materially changed applications, cloud services, platforms, and integrations for availability, recoverability, supportability, and approved recovery objectives.
- Lead technical planning, execution coordination, and evidence for DR, backup restoration, failover/failback, and integrated recovery tests; validate sequencing, achieved RTO/RPO, data integrity, and service functionality.
- Coordinate business validation with Operational Resilience / Business Continuity and business owners; document technical defects, coordinate assignment of corrective actions through established IT processes, and validate remediation through retesting.
- Maintain technical resiliency standards, recovery patterns, procedures, and metrics; report posture, dependency risk, gaps, remediation, and investment priorities, and support audit or regulatory requests.
Operational resilience alignment
- Connect critical business services and priorities to technology dependencies, shared infrastructure, and third-party arrangements; contribute technical scenarios, constraints, and results to exercises.
- Identify where component recovery fails to restore the complete business service and coordinate corrective action with technology and business owners.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of progressive hands-on infrastructure, cloud, application-platform, database, SRE, or DR engineering experience, including recovery design, implementation, and testing.
- Critical-service mapping, application and infrastructure dependency analysis, failure-mode analysis, recovery architecture, and DR testing.
- Working knowledge of application architecture, networks, databases, storage, identity, cloud platforms, enterprise integrations, and third-party technology services.
- Hands-on backup and restoration, replication, high availability, failover/failback, and scripting or automation for recovery procedures.
- Experience measuring recovery performance, diagnosing impediments to RTO/RPO targets, and defining observability and service-health indicators.
- Familiarity with ServiceNow CMDB/CSDM, architecture repositories, observability platforms, and dependency-discovery or service-mapping tools.
- Knowledge of banking technology risk, DR, cybersecurity, third-party risk, business continuity, and operational resilience expectations.
- Strong analysis, documentation, facilitation, and communication skills, including explaining recovery constraints to business and executive audiences.
- Availability for major disruptions and time-sensitive projects, including extended hours when needed and deployment to authorized Bank recovery sites or other designated locations.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, engineering, computer science, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant technical experience.
- An equivalent combination of education and/or relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Benefits & Perks
We offer a competitive benefits package designed to support your success:
- Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision plans with employer contributions.
- Retirement Savings: 401(k) with matching.
- Paid Time Off & Holidays: Generous PTO and paid holidays.
- Wellness Support: Access to mental health and financial wellness resources. Visit our benefits page to learn more Benefits! Join City National Bank of Florida. The possibilities are endless.
Special Information To Candidates
Equal Opportunity
City National Bank of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any status protected by federal, state, or Florida law. We comply with the ADA and applicable Florida laws.
Interview Guidelines
To ensure a fair and consistent interview process, applicants are not permitted to use AI-enabled devices during interviews, including AI glasses or similar wearable technology that can record, transmit, or generate real-time information. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process should contact talent.attraction@citynational.com in advance of the interview to submit an accommodation request. City National Bank of Florida will engage in the interactive process and provide reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law.
About us
Think BIG. Achieve More. At City National Bank of Florida, we invest in our people and the communities we serve. Join a team where ambitious careers and meaningful relationships thrive together. We’re entrepreneurs at heart—growing fast, making an impact, and shaping the future of banking in Florida. To learn more about City National Bank of Florida visit About Us!
Overview
The Lead Technology Resiliency Engineer is an IT-based technical individual contributor who engineers and validates the availability, recoverability, and resilience of technology supporting critical banking services. The role translates approved business RTOs, RPOs, and service requirements into technical recovery designs, dependency sequencing, data protection, automated procedures, and measurable test outcomes. It leads assigned engineering improvements with IT owners while partnering with Operational Resilience / Business Continuity on business priorities and validation.
Critical-service and technology dependency mapping
- Identify and maintain applications, infrastructure, data stores, integrations, identity services, networks, cloud platforms, hosting facilities, communications, support personnel, and third-party technology dependencies.
- Develop and validate business-to-technology dependency maps, upstream and downstream relationships, data flows, authentication and connectivity paths, recovery prerequisites, and sequencing.
- Define ServiceNow CMDB/CSDM resiliency data and relationship requirements; work with platform and data owners to validate accuracy and lifecycle maintenance.
Recovery objectives and technical feasibility
- Translate approved RTOs and RPOs into component-level requirements, recovery time budgets, data protection, and end-to-end sequencing; validate backup restoration, replication, database consistency, connectivity, and authentication.
- Measure achieved recovery times and recoverable data points in tests; document variances and coordinate corrective action with accountable IT owners.
- Document vendor commitments, integration constraints, escalation paths, and cloud or managed-service shared responsibilities; provide relevant findings to Operational Resilience and Third-Party Risk.
- Escalate feasibility and capability gaps for prioritization and authorized risk disposition. Do not independently approve or revise business recovery objectives or disruption tolerances.
Resiliency engineering and failure analysis
- Assess service architecture for single points of failure, hidden dependencies, capacity constraints, and recovery gaps; perform failure-mode and impact analysis.
- Design and implement assigned redundancy, fault-tolerance, recovery automation, failover/failback, and graceful-degradation improvements with platform and application owners.
- Develop and technically validate runbooks, scripts, restoration prerequisites, orchestration procedures, recovery-environment capacity, and configuration consistency.
- Validate recovery approaches for outages, data corruption, and cyber-related disruption with Cybersecurity and IT teams; recommend technical recovery triggers and actions under established incident procedures.
Monitoring And Observability Requirements
- Define telemetry, health and synthetic checks, capacity measures, service thresholds, alerts, and escalation triggers for critical technology dependencies.
- Identify coverage gaps and work with engineering and operations teams to implement and validate observability; accountable operations teams retain day-to-day monitoring.
Assessment, testing, and reporting
- Assess new or materially changed applications, cloud services, platforms, and integrations for availability, recoverability, supportability, and approved recovery objectives.
- Lead technical planning, execution coordination, and evidence for DR, backup restoration, failover/failback, and integrated recovery tests; validate sequencing, achieved RTO/RPO, data integrity, and service functionality.
- Coordinate business validation with Operational Resilience / Business Continuity and business owners; document technical defects, coordinate assignment of corrective actions through established IT processes, and validate remediation through retesting.
- Maintain technical resiliency standards, recovery patterns, procedures, and metrics; report posture, dependency risk, gaps, remediation, and investment priorities, and support audit or regulatory requests.
Operational resilience alignment
- Connect critical business services and priorities to technology dependencies, shared infrastructure, and third-party arrangements; contribute technical scenarios, constraints, and results to exercises.
- Identify where component recovery fails to restore the complete business service and coordinate corrective action with technology and business owners.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of progressive hands-on infrastructure, cloud, application-platform, database, SRE, or DR engineering experience, including recovery design, implementation, and testing.
- Critical-service mapping, application and infrastructure dependency analysis, failure-mode analysis, recovery architecture, and DR testing.
- Working knowledge of application architecture, networks, databases, storage, identity, cloud platforms, enterprise integrations, and third-party technology services.
- Hands-on backup and restoration, replication, high availability, failover/failback, and scripting or automation for recovery procedures.
- Experience measuring recovery performance, diagnosing impediments to RTO/RPO targets, and defining observability and service-health indicators.
- Familiarity with ServiceNow CMDB/CSDM, architecture repositories, observability platforms, and dependency-discovery or service-mapping tools.
- Knowledge of banking technology risk, DR, cybersecurity, third-party risk, business continuity, and operational resilience expectations.
- Strong analysis, documentation, facilitation, and communication skills, including explaining recovery constraints to business and executive audiences.
- Availability for major disruptions and time-sensitive projects, including extended hours when needed and deployment to authorized Bank recovery sites or other designated locations.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, engineering, computer science, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant technical experience.
- An equivalent combination of education and/or relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Benefits & Perks
We offer a competitive benefits package designed to support your success:
- Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision plans with employer contributions.
- Retirement Savings: 401(k) with matching.
- Paid Time Off & Holidays: Generous PTO and paid holidays.
- Wellness Support: Access to mental health and financial wellness resources. Visit our benefits page to learn more Benefits! Join City National Bank of Florida. The possibilities are endless.
Special Information To Candidates
Equal Opportunity
City National Bank of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any status protected by federal, state, or Florida law. We comply with the ADA and applicable Florida laws.
Interview Guidelines
To ensure a fair and consistent interview process, applicants are not permitted to use AI-enabled devices during interviews, including AI glasses or similar wearable technology that can record, transmit, or generate real-time information. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process should contact talent.attraction@citynational.com in advance of the interview to submit an accommodation request. City National Bank of Florida will engage in the interactive process and provide reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law.
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Map your role to the right SOC code
USCIS scrutinizes whether a Technology Lead role meets specialty occupation standards. Pull the O*NET profile for your specific SOC code before applying so you can frame your experience around the degree requirements listed there.
Target employers with cap-exempt status
Universities, nonprofits affiliated with research institutions, and certain government contractors can file H-1B petitions outside the annual lottery. Search OFLC disclosure data for Technology Lead LCA filings at cap-exempt organizations to find roles that don't depend on lottery selection.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing rate for your location and SOC code. Run the OFLC Wage Search for your target metro before salary discussions so you know whether an offer legally clears the threshold.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified H-1B sponsors
Filter Technology Lead openings on Migrate Mate by employers with confirmed LCA filing history for your occupation code. That surfaces companies that have already cleared the DOL certification step, not just firms that say they're open to sponsorship.
Get your I-129 petition filed early in the fiscal year
For cap-subject roles, H-1B registration opens in March and USCIS typically reaches the cap within the first five days. Confirm your employer's timeline for submitting registration and petition documents so delays on their end don't cost you a lottery slot.
Document your technical leadership scope precisely
USCIS RFEs on Technology Lead petitions often challenge whether the role genuinely requires a specialized degree. Provide an org chart, a breakdown of architectural decisions you own, and any cross-functional scope that distinguishes your position from a general software engineer role.
H-1B Visa Technology Lead: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Technology Lead role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as computer science, software engineering, or information systems. Roles where any bachelor's degree would suffice can draw RFEs from USCIS. Your employer's job description should specify the degree field, not just a degree level, to satisfy the specialty occupation definition.
How do I find Technology Lead jobs where the employer already sponsors H-1B visas?
Migrate Mate filters Technology Lead openings by verified LCA filing history, so you can see which employers have already filed with the DOL for this occupation rather than guessing at sponsorship willingness. That's a more reliable signal than a job posting that simply says 'visa sponsorship available.'
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new Technology Lead role without going back into the lottery?
Yes. H-1B portability under AC21 lets you change employers once your petition has been pending for 180 days or is already approved, as long as the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification. A Technology Lead position at a new company typically qualifies if your SOC code stays consistent. Your new employer files an H-1B transfer petition with USCIS before or when you start.
What happens to my H-1B if I'm promoted from a senior engineer to Technology Lead at the same company?
A significant change in job duties, title, or work location requires your employer to file an amended H-1B petition with USCIS and a new LCA with DOL before the change takes effect. Moving into a Technology Lead role typically triggers this requirement because the responsibilities and prevailing wage level shift materially from an individual contributor position.
How does the H-1B prevailing wage requirement affect Technology Lead hiring?
DOL requires your employer's LCA to certify a wage at or above the prevailing rate for your SOC code and work location, published quarterly through the OFLC Wage Search. Technology Lead roles generally fall into wage level III or IV, which are the higher tiers. Employers who can't meet that threshold legally cannot file the LCA, so confirming wage compliance early filters out offers that will stall at the DOL stage.