Technical Lead - Enterprise AI Platforms (On Site)

Location: 4910 Tiedeman Road, Brooklyn Ohio

Technical Leads own, oversee, and drive the strategy of the development, implementation, assessment, and support of one or more environments, applications, or platforms.

Essential Functions

• Independently develops and sets best practices for developing clean, maintainable, testable code for work assigned; performs code reviews for all levels of engineer.
• Drives and architects the overall health, performance, availability, and resolution of system and client experience impacts for one or more environments, applications, or platforms.
• Serves as the deep technical expert on the team; owns training program for junior engineers and mentors as the go to resource on the team.
• Evaluates and makes decisions on new technologies and how they fit into the product solutions.
• Applies, and proactively prepares to ensure, proper security standards for code development.
• Displays outward thinking, develops strategies for the full software development life-cycle of new and emerging technologies and demonstrates the viability; owns recommended technologies, maintain budget constraints, and ensure communication and awareness of implemented technology.
• Creates, reviews, and approves technical documentation, specifications, and project artifacts with Sr Engineers.
• Recommends standards and best practices across the entire bank for technology.
• Define high-level application platform architectural guidelines and articulate reasoning and trade-offs for choices to business owners.
• Deep understanding of the business; drives, formulates and designs complex solutions to anticipate and meet business needs.
• Performs other duties as assigned; duties, responsibilities and/or activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice
• Complies with all KeyBank policies and procedures, including without limitation, acting professionally at all times, conducting business ethically, avoiding conflicts of interest, and acting in the best interests of Key’s clients and Key.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience (preferred)

• OR equivalent experience (required)

Work Experience

• 7+ years of relevant experience (required)

Skills

• Extensive Experience with 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.
• Expert knowledge of 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 approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Extensive Experience with the value of innovation; ability to create and develop new ideas for answers to work-related problems that improve the performance of the organization.
• Extensive Experience with 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.
• 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.
• Extensive Experience with effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization
• Extensive Experience with emerging technologies; ability to design, apply and evaluate new information technologies for business environments.
• Extensive Experience with software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
• Extensive Experience with basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
• Expert knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
• Expert knowledge of the features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms.
• Extensive Experience with software reliability management; ability to develop and use principles, methodologies and metrics that increase software product performance and reliability.
• Extensive Experience with production applications; ability to monitor application functions and resolve issues to maintain optimal conditions for system applications.

Core Competencies

• All KeyBank employees are expected to demonstrate Key’s Values and abide by Key’s Code of Conduct.

Physical Demands

• General Office - Prolonged sitting, ability to communicate face to face in person or on the phone with teammates and clients, frequent use of PC/laptop, occasional lifting/pushing/pulling of backpacks, computer bags up to 10 lbs.

Work Location Category

• Hybrid (2+ days)

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This position is eligible to earn a base salary in the range of $96,000.00 - $181,000.00 annually. Placement within the pay range may differ based upon various factors, including but not limited to skills, experience and geographic location. Compensation for this role also includes eligibility for incentive compensation which may include production, commission, and/or discretionary incentives.

Please click here for a list of benefits for which this position is eligible.

Key has implemented an approach to employee workspaces which prioritizes in-office presence, while providing flexible options in circumstances where roles can be performed effectively in a mobile environment.

Job Posting Expiration Date: 09/25/2026 KeyCorp is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to sustaining an inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, pregnancy, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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