Debit Card Technology Manager

About the role

The Business Technology Manager leads a team in designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining a set of interrelated technology applications for KeyBank's Debit Card Technology platform. This role involves strong vendor relationship management, strategic alignment with third-party technology providers, payment processors, and card network partners, and ensuring consistent service delivery while holding vendors accountable.

Responsibilities

• Manage a technology portfolio aligned to the Debit Card domain, including core debit processing platforms, card management systems, vendor tools, and enterprise data integration services supporting debit card operations.
• Develop and grow partnerships with line of business/functional leaders to prioritize technology investments and set/receive direction to meet the business' or function's technology needs, while aligning to the enterprise's architectural standards.
• Lead technology initiatives through the project lifecycle, delivering in alignment with applicable measures of success and milestones, ranging from feature/function improvements through network mandate implementations, and platform modernization efforts.
• Manage the 24/7 production support of debit card applications, including vulnerability remediation and risk management to corporate SLAs, ensuring real-time authorization processing, settlement, and card maintenance activities maintain continuous availability and compliance with regulatory standards.
• Manage, develop, and ensure the effective execution of a team which may include business analysts, project managers, and/or scrum masters, engineers, developers, external resources, and vendors against line of business or functional technology deliverables.
• Oversee vendor relationships and delivery with critical debit card technology partners, including payment processors, card networks, and third-party service providers, managing vendor performance against contractual SLAs and driving accountability for production stability and project delivery.
• Manage financial stewardship of the debit card technology budget, including project cost tracking, resource allocation, and support of annual planning and business case development.
• Ensure compliance with applicable banking regulations, card network mandates, PCI-DSS standards, and internal risk management and security frameworks, partnering effectively with security, risk, and compliance teams to meet all regulatory obligations.
• Drive debit card technology strategy by staying current on industry trends in general technology, card payments, and fraud prevention, identifying and evaluating emerging technologies and their applicability to KeyBank's debit card ecosystem.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (preferred)
• 5+ years of relevant experience (required)
• Experience in the payments industry, particularly card processing, card networks, and/or transaction authorization platforms (preferred)
• Experience managing vendor relationships with payment processors or financial technology providers (preferred)
• Experience dealing with, managing, and adhering to regulatory requirements (preferred)

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with consulting on development and delivery of new or enhanced business applications.
• Working knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Extensive experience with marketplace experience, developments, and trends related to the organization's use of Information Technology (IT); ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to benefit the organization.
• Specific awareness of the payments/debit card processing landscape, including network rules, fraud trends, and regulatory requirements, is strongly preferred.
• Extensive experience with effective project management strategies and tactics and ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
• Extensive experience with the value of innovation and ability to develop new ideas and initiatives that improve the performance of the organization.
• Extensive experience with quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
• Extensive experience with delivering new or enhanced fee-based software products.
• Extensive experience with the ability to utilize a variety of specific tools and toolkits for the development and support of applications.
• Extensive experience with the ability to define, implement, make changes to, and support a production application.
• Working knowledge of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.
• Working knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
• Extensive experience with the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Working knowledge of effective team building techniques and ability to form and manage effective teams.

Skills

• Familiarity with mainframe technologies, batch data processing, database (DB2, SQL), GKE/Kubernetes cloud-native architectures and platforms.
• Extensive experience with consulting on development and delivery of new or enhanced business applications.
• Working knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Specific awareness of the payments/debit card processing landscape, including network rules, fraud trends, and regulatory requirements, is strongly preferred.
• Extensive experience with effective project management strategies and tactics and ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
• Extensive experience with the value of innovation and ability to develop new ideas and initiatives that improve the performance of the organization.
• Extensive experience with quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
• Extensive experience with delivering new or enhanced fee-based software products.
• Extensive experience with the ability to utilize a variety of specific tools and toolkits for the development and support of applications.
• Extensive experience with the ability to define, implement, make changes to, and support a production application.
• Working knowledge of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.
• Working knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
• Extensive experience with the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Working knowledge of effective team building techniques and ability to form and manage effective teams.