Team Tech Lead – Payments Fraud Technology

M&T Bank; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank in Buffalo, NY is seeking a Team Tech Lead to guide a Fraud (Payments) technology delivery team within an Agile framework. You will set technical direction across Actimize-based solutions, data engineering, integration, and platform modernization.

You will lead architecture and design reviews, mentor engineers, enforce coding standards, and drive secure, scalable, and maintainable systems while advancing automated testing and AI-assisted development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience with Actimize Fraud solutions and Payments Fraud.
• Strong software engineering and solution-design background.
• Demonstrated technical leadership of engineering teams or complex initiatives.
• Experience mentoring engineers and designing/applying architecture patterns.
• Experience in Agile environments and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with AI tools for development, testing, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for Fraud (Payments) and Actimize Platform.
• Lead architecture, design reviews, and code reviews for complex changes.
• Mentor developers and enforce coding standards, testing, and deployment practices.
• Improve automated testing, code quality, and technical documentation.
• Identify and remediate technical debt and optimize performance.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Tools

Actimize IFM 10.X/11.X

Actimize Platform (ActOne, AIS, UDM, QAS)

Actimize custom development (Modeler, Designer)

Oracle SQL/PLSQL/SQL Tuning

Actimize custom-plugin development

GitLab

CI/CD pipelines

SAST/DAST remediation

AI-assisted development

Application & database integration

Job description

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, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Financial-services technology experience, with Actimize Fraud solutions, and Payments Fraud experience is a must.
• Strong software engineering and solution-design experience.
• Demonstrated technical leadership of engineering teams or complex technical initiatives.
• Strong experience in mentoring and developing engineers/teams.
• Experience designing and integrating applications using established architecture principles and patterns.
• Strong experience and proficiency in custom development, customization in Actimize IFM solutions & platform.
• Strong experience in fraud detection on payment channels like Wire, ACH, RTP, deposits and cards.
• Ability to research complex technical issues, evaluate multiple approaches, and clearly articulate recommendations and trade-offs.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, architecture, product, business, risk, and management stakeholders.
• Experience working in an Agile engineering environment.

M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.

Location

Buffalo, New York, United States of America