Corporate Business Solutions Developer Lead-Commercial

About The Role

The Solutions Developer Lead is a member of the Information Technology, Glacier Solutions Development (GSD) team. This position will report to the GSD Development Manager and is responsible for leading technical implementation of strategic projects to enhance the bank’s commercial lending services platforms and applications. This role has focused product knowledge of banking system management/development with hands-on technical expertise to lead the solution delivery for the commercial lending platform, currently nCino, applying technical knowledge and platform capabilities to support business requirements.

This individual works closely with Product and Channel Managers, Solutions Architects, support teams, and technology colleagues to elicit, capture, and translate business requirements and architectural design into technical requirements for the development team. This role leads continuous improvement, enhancement, and technical integration. Align technical solutions with organizational strategy and functional architecture. Works closely with functional leaders, Solutions Architect, and key vendors to develop solutions that support strategic business needs.

This role also involves guiding, mentoring, and supporting the development team to ensure projects are completed efficiently and effectively.

In addition to technical responsibilities, the Lead Developer will evaluate team capacity, commit to delivery timelines, submit change requests, monitor vendor ticketing updates, and take on the most challenging development items. Technical oversight is a key aspect of the role, ensuring software quality standards are met and providing technical guidance to the team, including identifying and addressing technical issues and opportunities for improvement.

Strong problem-solving and communication skills are essential.

This role is highly visible, with the ability to directly impact the organization and our internal and external customers. The successful candidate must have experience with banking systems development, including nCino, and commercial lending processes, a continuous improvement mindset, and outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

This is a corporate position which may be located at an available bank division location across our nine-state footprint in AZ, CO, , MT, NV, TX, UT, WA, or WY. The entry rate for this position is $+ per year (calculated for Kalispell, MT).

All compensation offers are analyzed individually and take into consideration multiple factors including geographic location, years of experience, and educational background.

• Collaborate with the project team to plan and coordinate enhancements to the commercial lending platforms, currently nCino. Participate in discovery and refinement to advise on technical feasibility of proposed business requirements. Own all technical aspects, including custom code, configuration, development, IT change management, information security considerations, vendor communication, and migration planning for both GBCI and vendor teams.
• Lead and mentor junior developers with guidance, code reviews, and training. Break down project work into tasks and assign based on skills and availability. Review releases, tasks, code, and requirements to ensure quality and best practices.
• Independently complete complex technical development tasks. Establish technical expertise and teach the business domain, data model, and code base design to other team members.
• Provide detailed level-of-effort estimates and articulate benefits and risks of proposed solutions. Serve as a decision-maker among the development team when technical implementation differences arise.
• Work with the product owner to incorporate technical debt into a healthy backlog, including backlog items (user stories, defects, technical spikes) and participating in agile ceremonies such as sprint reviews and demos.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting for complex problems and serve as an escalation point for junior developers and Business Application Administrators.
• Follow and understand new commercial platform enhancements and capabilities from vendor releases and…