Sr Manager, Credit & Fraud Solutions Architecture

T-Mobile T-Mobile · Telecom · Frisco, TX +1

Senior Manager role focused on defining and overseeing the architectural vision for Fraud, Credit, and Collections decision engine solutions within T-Mobile's FinTech platforms. Responsibilities include technical leadership, team management, ensuring regulatory compliance, and driving the integration of emerging technologies. The role requires expertise in enterprise systems architecture, financial services, and Agile methodologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Review and recommend technical direction to optimize the integrity and adaptability of the technical design throughout the solution’s lifecycle. Champion privacy, data protection, and regulatory compliance (including PCI, GLBA, CFPB, and Reg E) across consumer facing FinTech platforms. Ensure secure architecture and data design for customer onboarding, credit decisioning, account servicing, and financial transactions.
  2. Maintain system documentation, architecture blueprints, and technical standards to guide development and cross-team partnerships. Gain expert-level knowledge of product architecture and workflows through active project involvement. Participate in code reviews to uphold high-quality releases and maintain best practices. Engage and voice with multiple vendors, advocating for feature and functionality enhancements in future product releases.
  3. Partners with cross-functional teams, including Strategy, Fraud, Business, and IT Production Support, to define technology strategy approach for initiatives and to provide recommendations on scope delivery phasing/workstreams.
  4. Effectively manage technical product teams by providing direction, developmental feedback, coaching, and the necessary tools to ensure success. This includes conducting performance reviews, career development planning, and assigning responsibilities with increasing levels of accountability.
  5. Foster a culture of innovation by encouraging the ‘productization’ of solutions for scalable and repeatable success. Manages the "big picture" of challenges impacting the customer experience, including the technical, functional, process, and policy considerations, and creatively defines solutions to those challenges.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or related degree
  • 7-10 years experience Relevant Product Management experience in an Agile software product development environment
  • 7-10 years experience with Enterprise Systems Architecture
  • 5-7 years experience with Financial Services, FinTech credit decisioning platforms/solutions (FICO, EXP, TU, EQF)
  • 2-4 years experience in a leadership role
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Agile Project Management
  • Broad awareness of open source & AWS Cloud technologies

Nice to have

  • 2-4 years experience of managing teams of 5 or more resources in direct reporting relationship in a Product Management organization
  • Configuration - Expertise in configuring and testing decision engines (eg: FICO Platform, Experian PowerCurve), or similar platforms
  • Languages - Knowledge and proficient use of Java, JavaScript, and NoSQL Experience with NoSql technologies such as Aurora
  • Scripting - Advanced scripting skills in at least one of the following: Python, Perl or Shell and willingness to learn new technologies. Experience with Source Code Management Tools
  • Testing - Experience with Performance. Load, Stress and Scalability Testing
  • Testing - Implementation of automated testing frameworks

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory compliance (including PCI, GLBA, CFPB, and Reg E)
  • Financial Services, FinTech credit decisioning platforms/solutions (FICO, EXP, TU, EQF)
  • Enterprise Systems Architecture