Technical Engineer V

Job Title: Technical Engineer V

Location: Buffalo, NY (Remote)

Employment: Contract (11 months)

Industry: Banking

Compensation: $ 85.00 /hour

Schedule: 40hours /week

About the Opportunity:

• Work closely with Technology management, customers, and support teams on a regular basis to lead the design, development, and execution of technical solutions that meet or exceed current and future needs of the organization.
• Responsibilities may include infrastructure architecture and design, research and development of new or expanded systems, creation of technology standards and policies, thorough analysis of user requirements and operational constraints, unit test and system integration, and user acceptance testing

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

• This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

About Acara Solutions

• Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• Regularly and independently interact with business partners of varying associate and management levels to ensure clarity of the problem/opportunity and elicit business requirements.
• Estimate the size of the effort required to complete complex, moderate to large scale projects where applicable.
• Coordinate vendor interactions and manage contract or vendor resources as needed.
• Mentor and coach less experienced engineers, technicians, and integrators.
• Review documentation, proposals, and changes proposed by less experienced staff.
• Seek to expand knowledge and understanding of financial services trends, practices, and technologies on a continuous basis.
• Follow and promote use of industry best practices, standards and procedures.
• Maintain a high level of technical aptitude and strong working knowledge of supporting application(s), development environments and the supported client environment. Maintain a strong and detailed understanding of vendor products, services, systems, and updates.
• Assist in developing expense and capital budgets.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client Bank brand.
• Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum 10 years of experience in systems design, management or architecture.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Deep expertise of designing and scaling observability platforms (Dynatrace, DataDog, IBM SevOne etc).

What Sets You Apart:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in technical engineering position involving infrastructure design technologies, data management and interchange, system design or development for complex applications
• Ability to translate complex business/functional requirements into structured high-quality implementations using any variety of industry standard approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to develop alternative solutions to complex problems and recommend the best solution to the technology business, and project teams.
• Advanced technical skills.
• Advanced analytical skills.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills.
• Advanced problem-solving skills.
• Verifiable industry or vendor expertise in relative technologies.
• Able to meet with clients of varying levels to gather, document, and analyze system specifications and requirements, work closely with integrators, developers, and testers in the fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with others in team environment.
• Ability to use effective facilitation skills and techniques to elicit and review requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders and group size.
• Understanding of how the people, processes and technology within an organization interact in relationships and patterns to create a feasible solution on projects of medium to high complexity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective influencing skills.
• Process-oriented.
• Logical thinker.
• Strong knowledge of server/client and virtual technologies.
• Ability to master complex tasks with minimal supervision.
• Experience with project estimation and budget/planning activities.
• Adaptable.
• Able to learn quickly in a rapid pace environment.
• Thorough understanding of the system development and infrastructure lifecycle and architecture, vendor best practices, IT Service Management, and systems design.
• Ability to define and enforce observability patterns, standards, and data models
• Ability to lead observability intelligent automation and root cause analysis initiatives
• Deep expertise in designing and scaling observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, SevOne)
• Strong understanding of platform reliability, scalability, and cross-tool integration
• Hands-on experience with AIOps platforms and AI-driven analysis (e.g., Davis AI, causal analysis)
• Familiarity with leveraging AI to improve operational decision-making
• Expertise in managing observability data (logs, metrics, alerts) at scale
• Ability to reduce alert noise and prevent uncontrolled log growth
• Strong focus on cost optimization, governance, and operational efficiency

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check

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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.