Tech Lead Software Engineering Sr Advisor I at Fiserv
Alpharetta, GA
$141,000–$225,600from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Alpharetta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical leadership role focused on setting and evolving engineering standards across a large fintech portfolio spanning mainframe and distributed systems. Day-to-day work involves architecture and code reviews, defining reusable patterns, guiding teams through modernization efforts, and driving adoption of AI-assisted development tooling. Suited to a deeply experienced engineer comfortable operating across COBOL, Java, cloud-native platforms, and CI/CD practices at enterprise scale.
Staff level · 10+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Staff.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6–15
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title 'Tech Lead Software Engineering Sr Advisor I' carries a 'Sr' (Senior) framing, so the level advertised in the title is Senior; however, the actual scope — setting portfolio-wide engineering standards, defining reference architectures across multiple teams, and coaching senior engineers — is cross-team technical leadership consistent with a Staff-level role.
This role sits between a hands-on Staff engineer (15-1252) and a people-manager (11-3021). The JD emphasizes remaining hands-on (prototyping, code reviews, contributing to critical-path work) and explicitly avoids direct-report language, so 15-1252 is the better fit, with 11-3021 as a close runner-up.
The salary range ($141,000–$225,600/year) is explicitly stated to apply to New Jersey and New York employees; pay may differ in other states. The posting does not specify a single city, but Fiserv's NJ/NY presence anchors the CBSA to New York-Newark-Jersey City.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree or higher … or equivalent combination of education, related experience and/or military experience,' which means equivalent experience is accepted — the degree requirement is set to None accordingly.
Angular, .NET, and Python appear only under the 'Experience that would be great to have' section and are treated as preferred. Java and Spring are listed in the required section's narrative of technologies reviewed ('Java, Spring, .NET, Angular, Python') but Java and Spring are also firmly anchored by the 10+ years mainframe/distributed and 8+ years modernization requirements; Angular, .NET, and Python are demoted to preferred since they appear explicitly as nice-to-haves.
The cloud platform requirement names AWS, Azure, and GCP as interchangeable ('at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP') — AWS is listed as primary with Azure and GCP as alternatives.
'Application security' is retained as a required skill because the JD explicitly gates on it ('Experience applying application security practices…'), even though it is a broad capability rather than a single named tool.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AI-assisted development tools.
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