Business Technology Lead

Job Responsibilities

• Owes technical requirements definition, solution architecture design, and application architecture design, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, platform patterns, and security requirements.
• Creates and maintains technical design documents (TDD), architecture decision records (ADRs), API documentation, integration designs, and database/data model specifications.
• Led Technology Review Board technical artifact preparation, Initial Design Review technical designs, and facilitates gate review presentations in partnership with Business Architect and Product Security Leader.
• Provides application code development oversight, establishes development approach and methodology, manages technical debt, and ensures secure coding standards compliance in partnership with Product Security.
• Defines test strategy, owns performance requirements and design, leads code review process establishment, and oversees regression testing, defect triage, and quality metrics reporting.
• Participates in sprint planning, story refinement sessions, and release planning; creates technical stories/tasks and collaborates with SRE on Definition of Done criteria.
• Collaborates with Platform teams on platform pattern alignment, initiates platform onboarding for applications, and ensures consumption of shared platform services (Kubernetes, service mesh, API gateway).
• Identifies and manages technology risks, supports incident root cause analysis and post-incident reviews, leads corrective action implementation, and coordinates vendor technical contract reviews.

Job Requirements

• Education: High School / High School Equivalency (GED, HiSET, TASC) / Foreign Equivalent
• Experience: 8+ Years in software engineering, solution architecture, or technical leadership with hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise applications.
• Experience: Demonstrated experience with solution architecture, API design, microservices, and modern application development patterns in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience: Proven ability to lead technical teams, establish development standards, and drive delivery of complex technology initiatives in Agile environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Undergraduate Degree (4 years or equivalent)
• Experience: Experience with containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), service mesh, API gateways, and platform pattern consumption.
• Experience: AWS/Azure/GCP certifications preferred.
• Experience: Banking or financial services experience with understanding of regulatory requirements and secure development practices.
• Experience: Experience with Technology Review Board governance processes preferred.