This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week
Position Summary
The Team Tech Lead is the senior technical leader and engineering quality steward for an Agile delivery team supporting Fraud (Payments) technology solutions.
The Lead provides technical direction across application development, data engineering, system integration, and platform modernization. The role guides architecture and design decisions, establishes engineering standards, mentor engineers, helps resolve complex technical challenges, and ensures solutions are secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned with M&T technology standards.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Solution Design
Provide technical leadership for Fraud (Payments), Actimize IFM solution and Actimize Platform.
Apply technical expertise in Actimize-based Fraud Detection for different payment channels.
Provide technical leadership for Actimize custom development, Banking Fraud and Payments Fraud.
Lead the design, development, and optimization of Actimize IFM Modules, Actimize Custom Development (IDE) and Actimize Plugin Development.
Lead the design, development, and optimization of SQL Queries and objects in Oracle databases for custom implementation.
Translate business, regulatory, and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Guide solution design and implementation, evaluate technical approaches and clearly communicate trade-offs involving performance, scalability, maintainability, security, resiliency, and complexity.
Partner with enterprise Architecture, infrastructure/platform teams, Product Owners, and other Leads on solutions and dependencies that span multiple teams.
Conduct and guide architecture, design, and code reviews for complex changes.
Mentor developers in modern development practices and service-oriented architecture.
Establish and enforce appropriate code-review, branching, testing, and deployment practices.
Drive improvements in automated testing, code quality, technical documentation, and engineering controls.
Proactively identify and manage technical debt.
Demonstrate proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and promote their responsible use across the software-development lifecycle.
Identify opportunities and apply AI tools where appropriate to accelerate software development, unit-test development, troubleshooting, code analysis, and technical documentation.
Lead investigation and resolution of complex issues across application components in production and other environments including root-cause analysis and performance optimization.
Identify opportunities and provide technical leadership to simplify legacy implementations, reduce operational risk, and improve maintainability.
Work with engineering and support teams to strengthen application resiliency, monitoring, recoverability, and operational readiness.
Education and Experience Required:
A combined minimum of 9 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years’ engineering and/or architecture experience and 3 years leadership experience
Actimize IFM 10.X/11.X
Actimize Platform components (ActOne, AIS, UDM, QAS)
Actimize custom development (Modeler, Designer)
Oracle Database, SQL query, PL/SQL, SQL Tuning, database design
Actimize custom-plugin development
Proficiency with AI tools for development, testing & documentation
Experience in migration projects
Banking fraud & payments fraud
Application and system integration
GitLab
CI/CD pipelines
SAST/DAST vulnerability remediation
Automated testing and engineering-quality practices
AI-assisted software development, testing, troubleshooting, and technical documentation
Production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
Application and database performance optimization
Experience implementing & supporting payments Fraud Detection technologies
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,…