Lead Software Engineer (AI-Driven Development)

About this role

## This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week

## Responsible at the expert level for writing code and for the overall team's technical requirements gathering. Completes work following banking technology standards and contributes to the overall stability and resiliency of banking technology within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), while also coaching others. Leads the team's adoption of AI-driven development — using approved AI coding assistants and agentic tooling to raise delivery speed and code quality — and is accountable for the correctness, security, and auditability of all AI-assisted output.

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## Technical Focus Areas

• ## Expert-level coding in a minimum of 1 programming language and professional proficiency in a minimum of 1 additional language
• ## **AI-assisted development** with approved tools (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, IDE-integrated assistants) across the full SDLC
• ## **Agentic workflows**: task decomposition, tool use, and multi-step agent runs applied to build, test, refactor, and migration work
• ## **Prompt and context engineering**: repository-level instruction files, reusable prompts, skills, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations
• ## **AI output governance**: human-in-the-loop review, provenance and attribution, data handling, and secure-use guardrails for regulated environments
• ## Test automation and evaluation, including AI-generated test coverage and regression safety nets
• ## Developer experience and engineering productivity measurement

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## Primary Responsibilities

• ## Develop and coach other team members while also working independently on the applications within the boundaries of approved Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, including identification and recommendation of metrics to solve business needs and minimize risks to the Bank through clean and resilient code.
• ## Lead the team's ...