Senior Engineering Manager

Introduction Since 1973, East West Bank has served as a pathway to success. With over 110 locations across the U.S. and Asia, we are the premier financial bridge between the East and West. Our teams of experienced, multi-cultural professionals help guide businesses and community members on both sides of the Pacific looking to explore new markets and create new opportunities, and our sustained growth and expertise in industries like real estate, entertainment and media, private equity and venture capital, and high-tech help build sustainable businesses and expand our associates’ potential for career advancement.

Headquartered in California, East West Bank (Nasdaq: EWBC) is a top-performing commercial bank with a strong foundation, an enterprising spirit and a commitment to absolute integrity. East West Bank gives people the confidence to reach further.

Overview East West Bank is seeking a highly technical, hands-on Senior Engineering Leader to join the IT Business Solutions team. This leader will serve as a player-coach—setting engineering direction while remaining actively engaged in solution design, code reviews, and critical development work. The role will partner with business stakeholders, architects, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and delivery teams to build, modernize, and support secure, resilient banking applications.

The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with strong knowledge of Azure or AWS, enterprise integration, operational reliability, and the governance expectations of a regulated financial institution.

Responsibilities Hands-on Engineering & Architecture:
Contribute to critical development, conduct rigorous code reviews, and design secure, scalable applications aligned with EWB architecture, cybersecurity, SDLC, and change-management standards.

API & Integration Engineering:
Design and optimize resilient APIs, microservices, and integration patterns with strong authentication, authorization, data validation, auditability, and transaction integrity.

Messaging, Performance & Scale:
Implement enterprise messaging and event-driven solutions using technologies such as Azure Service Bus, Kafka, or IBM MQ, together with distributed caching such as Redis, to support reliable, high-volume banking workloads.

Digital Experience Engineering:
Lead the delivery of secure, accessible, and maintainable customer- and colleague-facing experiences using React, Type Script, and modern state-management patterns.

Technical Leadership & Business Partnership:
Mentor engineering teams, establish practical standards, and translate business needs into well-governed solution options. Guide stakeholders through intake, architecture, security, delivery, production readiness, and support considerations to determine how requests should be best solved within EWB’s technology ecosystem.

Cloud Platform Engineering:
Build and operate cloud-native applications on Azure or AWS using infrastructure as code, automated CI/CD, containerization, secrets management, identity controls, and scalable deployment patterns.

Reliability, Observability & Support:
Embed logging, monitoring, alerting, performance management, and operational runbooks into solutions; support incident response, root-cause analysis, resiliency testing, and continuous service improvement.

Qualifications Technical Core Cloud Ecosystems:
Deep, hands-on experience architecting and operating production workloads in Azure—including App Service, AKS, Functions, Service Bus, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights—or comparable AWS services.

UI Frameworks:
Advanced JavaScript/Type Script and React expertise, with a record of delivering secure, accessible, high-performing enterprise applications.

Backend & Architecture:
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