India-based operations center for U.S. top-20 bank, scaling risk and payments infrastructure
First Citizens India operates as the India delivery center for First Citizens BancShares, a top-20 U.S. financial institution. The tech stack reveals a classical enterprise banking architecture—Oracle, SAP, ServiceNow for core operations—layered with modern event streaming (Kafka, Kafka Streams, KSQL) and cloud deployment (AWS, Azure, GCP). Active migration from Apigee to MuleSoft, plus adoption of Kubernetes and Terraform, signals infrastructure modernization. Hiring skews engineering and data-heavy, with sustained focus on model governance, payments onboarding, and financial crime mitigation—priorities that map directly to their pain-point landscape.
Notable leadership hires: Technology Director
First Citizens India is the India-based operations and delivery center for First Citizens BancShares, Inc., a top-20 U.S. financial services firm with over 125 years of operating history. Based in Bengaluru, the center manages risk, technology, finance, cybersecurity, and credit administration functions across the parent company's portfolio. The organization spans 1,001–5,000 employees and operates across six core functional areas: Technology, Enterprise Operations, Finance, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, and Credit Administration. Current project focus includes payments and cards integration, credit risk model governance, regulatory reporting automation, and Kafka-based cluster management.
Core systems: Oracle, SAP, ServiceNow, Workday. Messaging and streaming: Kafka, Kafka Streams, KSQL, Avro, Protocol Buffers. Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP. Integration: MuleSoft, RAML (migrating from Apigee). Frontend: React, Redux, Node.js. Application runtime: Java, Spring Boot, OpenShift.
Payments and cards onboarding integration, Kafka cluster management automation, credit risk model governance and monitoring, model lifecycle management, enhanced due diligence reviews, and regulatory reporting automation.
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