Technical Lead

Role Description

Corpay is seeking a Tech Lead to join our Lodging division based in Atlanta, GA. This position falls under our lodging line of business. In this role, the Tech Lead will oversee a diverse cross-functional software engineering team ensuring that delivered projects are of high quality and delivered on time using agile methodology. This role involves software engineering, providing technical guidance, and fostering a collaborative team environment. You will report directly to the Director of Software Engineering and regularly collaborate with the technical teams.

Role Responsibilities

• Serving as the technical lead for product feature implementation while providing hands-on development leadership and establishing engineering best practices, coding standards, and solution quality.
• Leading the design, architecture, and technical decomposition of complex features and initiatives to ensure scalability, security, maintainability, and alignment with business objectives.
• Advising Technology Leadership on technical direction, solution approaches, feature delivery, and risk mitigation.
• Applying advanced technical expertise to resolve complex business and technology challenges by evaluating trade-offs and recommending optimal solutions.
• Driving technical decision-making across multiple workstreams while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
• Identifying and removing technical blockers that impact project delivery, product performance, or operational stability.
• Partnering with Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Technical Operations, and Implementation teams to deliver business capabilities and customer solutions.
• Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to understand application, infrastructure, integration, and business process dependencies.
• Communicating technical concepts, implementation strategies, risks, and project status to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Influencing engineering standards, implementation methodologies, and operational best practices to improve delivery consistency.
• Championing the adoption of AI-powered tools and enterprise automation to improve engineering productivity, delivery quality, and operational efficiency.
• Evaluating emerging AI technologies and enterprise platforms to identify opportunities for workflow automation and developer productivity.
• Promoting responsible AI adoption by establishing governance, security, compliance, and usage standards.
• Mentoring developers and implementation team members on architecture, engineering best practices, Agile methodologies, AI-enabled development, and technical problem-solving.
• Facilitating technical discussions, architecture reviews, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions to strengthen team capabilities.
• Leading the resolution of complex technical issues through analysis, innovation, and industry best practices.
• Developing innovative solutions that improve product scalability, customer experience, engineering efficiency, and implementation success.
• Driving continuous improvement by leveraging automation, AI insights, reusable documentation, technical standards, and implementation playbooks.
• Supporting onboarding, technical growth, AI literacy, and a culture of continuous learning and ownership.
• Taking accountability for the successful technical execution of implementation initiatives, feature delivery, and project outcomes.
• Monitoring project milestones, quality metrics, delivery commitments, and implementation progress while proactively managing risks.
• Providing visibility into technical issues, production defects, and implementation challenges while partnering with Product and Engineering teams to drive resolution.
• Ensuring project scope, customer requirements, dependencies, estimates, and implementation criteria are fully defined and approved before execution.
• Partnering with DevOps teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, observability, and operational resilience.
• Ensuring compliance with release management, change management, and deployment governance standards.
• Coordinating production readiness activities with Infrastructure, Configuration, Technical Operations, and implementation teams to support successful customer deployments.
• Maintaining expertise in application architecture, software engineering, databases, integrations, enterprise application delivery, and emerging AI-enabled engineering practices while identifying opportunities for innovation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Extensive experience in software engineering, application architecture, and enterprise application delivery.
• Proven experience leading the technical design and implementation of complex software solutions.
• Strong knowledge of modern software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, integrations, databases, and enterprise application technologies.
• Experience working in Agile software development environments and leading technical delivery across cross-functional teams.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release management, and operational readiness.
• Experience evaluating and implementing AI-powered development tools, automation platforms, or enterprise AI solutions.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and technical decision-making skills with the ability to balance business and technical priorities.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers, leading technical discussions, conducting code and design reviews, and developing technical talent.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, security, governance, compliance, and software engineering best practices.
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with emerging technologies, AI capabilities, and software engineering trends.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision benefits available the 1st month after hire.
• Automatic enrollment into our 401k plan (subject to eligibility requirements).
• Virtual fitness classes offered company-wide.
• Robust PTO offers including major holidays, vacation, sick, personal, & volunteer time.
• Employee discounts with major providers (i.e. wireless, gym, car rental, etc.).
• Philanthropic support with both local and national organizations.
• Fun culture with company-wide contests and prizes.